Posts Tagged ‘Florida’

Looking Forward: The Human Rights Fight

The Facebook status updates have been pouring in. The Twitterverse is all a-flurry. Everyone’s talking about it. We lost in Maine. It’s true. It’s a big loss. Maine would have been the first state in the history of the nation to pass a gay marriage law by popular vote. We’re...
November 4th, 2009 | LGBT, NewsBites | Read More

Advocate: Florida Leaders See Hope in Adoption Bill

Gay rights leaders in Florida, the one state that explicity denies gays from adopting, is crossing its fingers that a recently-introduced federal adoption bill will work in their favor. California Congressman Pete Stark introduced the Every Child Deserves a Family Act [H.R 3827] last week, which would...
October 23rd, 2009 | LGBT, NewsBites, Society & Culture | Read More

Happy Hump Day Headlines

… And The Bright Idea Of The Week Award Goes To A Tampa Bay church is taking on one of the largest corporations in the world. “We would like to send them a message,” said Terry Kemple, President of the Community Issues Council that is organizing a boycott of Pepsi products because...
September 9th, 2009 | LGBT | Read More

Miami News Station Accused Of Firing Anchor Due To Sexuality

Charles Perez, the news anchor from Miami who last week accused his station of firing him for being gay, wrote in a guest column for today’s Daily Beast that he was told by higher-ups at WPLG-ABC to avoid having kids or getting married. “The only thing I could take from it was that my profile...
August 11th, 2009 | LGBT, NewsBites | Read More

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