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Domestic Partnerships Act introduced in Florida legislature
Two Florida state lawmakers have introduced a measure in both chambers of the legislature that would provide domestic partnership protections to committed same-sex couples throughout Florida.
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Commentary
But Who’ll School the Fool Buell?
Every time you share a story like yesterday’s on Buell; every time you write and post such a story yourself; every time you leave a comment on such a post, so that observers can see how alive is the topic; every time you contribute to a pertinent online forum, you—you!—help to bring about real, actual change.
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Commentary
Petition calls for Jerry Buell’s high school to produce ‘It Gets Better’ video
Many of you have heard by know about Jerry Buell. Buell is the teacher in Florida who took to Facebook and stated that he “almost threw up” when hearing about the marriage equality law passing in New York State. Immediately following the press picking up on the story, Buell was suspended. Shortly thereafter, following threatened […]
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Commentary
Bully for You, Jerry Buell
If you don’t know, Jerry Buell is the central Florida high school teacher who, on July 25, got so outraged while watching a TV report about the legalization of gay marriage in New York that on his personal Facebook page he wrote, “I’m watching the news, eating dinner, when the story about New York okaying same sex unions came on and I almost threw up.”
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ACLU settles suit against City of Miami Beach in wrongful arrest of gay man
The ACLU of Florida on Monday reached a settlement in a lawsuit against the City of Miami Beach and two police officers on behalf of Harold Strickland, a gay former Miami Beach resident wrongfully arrested in March 2009 in retaliation for calling 911 to report that police officers were beating and kicking a man who lay handcuffed on the ground.
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Miami-Dade, nation’s 4th largest school district, adds gender identity protections
The Miami-Dade school district — the fourth largest in the nation — on Thursday joined other districts across the state of Florida in protecting students from bullying based upon gender identity or sexual orientation.
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Anti-gay Florida Family Association warns: The gays are coming to Disney
A conservative family values group took to the skies over Central Florida with a warning of the annual “Gay Day” occurring at Walt Disney World today. The Florida Family Association spent $7,000 to fly banners over Orlando for 10 hours each day on Friday and Saturday that read, “Warning Gay Day at Disney 6/4.” “Thousands […]
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Orange County, Fla., approves benefits for partners, children of gay workers
Commissioners in Orange County, Fla., voted unanimously on Tuesday to extend health and other workplace benefits to the partners and children of gay county employees.
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City council candidate’s yard signs defaced with anti-gay slurs
A candidate for city council in Miami Shores, Fla., this weekend discovered several campaign yard signs had been defaced with anti-gay epithets.
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Suspect arrested in killing of two Miami men he thought were gay
Miami police have arrested a man in the shooting deaths of two men that he thought were gay and coming onto him.