By Renée Graham, Boston Globe, June 11, 2023. Under a cloud of anti-LGBTQ+ laws, some Pride celebrations have been scaled back or canceled — which is what Ron DeSantis wants. On the same day that Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida signed more anti- LGBTQ+ bills into law last month, someone hacked an electronic traffic billboard
By Charles Homans, The New York Times, May 1, 2023 (originally published April 26, 2003) Republicans are increasingly taking on corporations they denounce as “woke.” The Florida governor is just the latest to find that it isn’t easy. When Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida went to war against Disney over what he labels its “woke”
The following Letter to the Editor was published in The Daily Sun on April 8, 2023. Submit your own letter to the editor by clicking HERE. I often wonder what historical figures and activists responsible for positive and progressive changes for human rights over the years would think if they came back and saw what
[Editor note: This article is relevant to Florida’s “Don’t say gay” law.] By Scott E. Hadland, M.D., M.P.H. When Mx. E. told me, “It’s hard being an LGBTQ professional in America right now,” I knew what they meant. A 26-year-old who identifies as gender nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, Mx. E. is a patient in
ABC-7.com WZVN News for Fort Myers, Cape Coral & Naples, Florida ARAY founder Hal Trejo interviewed on ABC-7 about the Florida Inclusive Workforce Act and its opponents. Here is more background at WUSF
The Human Rights Campaign is pouring $520,000 into a digital advertising campaign in Florida in the final days of the 2018 election cycle. HRC, which brands itself as America’s largest LGBTQ rights group, said in a press release that it hopes to target “equality voters — voters who are willing to make issues of LGBTQ
LGBTQ community members and friends of Londonn Moore; coming together in the face of violence. “The last thing we want to see is her memory of the person she lived as being unknown or disregarded,” said supporter Lisa Trejo. “We needed to in the midst of this story, that’s sort of happening, just honor her