By Samantha Rosenthal
In the News
Source: Watermark Online
Source: Advocate
By Trudy Ring
Opponents of marriage equality love to say their position is based in concern for children. They invoke the mantra that every child deserves a mother and a father – and, of course, they see parenting in terms of rigid gender roles, so heaven forbid that a child be raised by two parents of the same sex or, for that matter, a single parent.
Source: Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
By Mitch Perry
Source: Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
By Zebrina Edgerton-Maloy
Source: Huffington Post
By Nadine Smith
Source: Captiol News Service
By Matt Galka
Florida’s Attorney General is fighting to dismiss a challenge to the state’s same sex marriage law. But the wording she used has rubbed Equality Florida the wrong way.
Source: Broward Palm Beach New Times
By Chris Joseph
Source: Watermark Online
Three anti-gay groups Florida cannot intervene in a Florida lawsuit fighting for marriage equality, a circuit court judge ruled June 3. Judge Sarah Zabel ruled that Florida Family Action Inc., Florida Democratic League and People United to Lead the Struggle for Equality—all who support the state’s ban on marriage equality and were represented by the Liberty Counsel—cannot intervene in Pareto v. Ruvin.
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Source: The New Civil Rights Movement
By David Badash
Source: The Miami Herald
By Nadia Smith
Source: Washington Blade
Written By: Michael K. Lavers
Source: Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
By Tiffany Razzano
Source: Broward Palm Beach New Times
By Chris Joseph
Source: Watermark Online
By Jamie Hyman
Source: Gainesville Sun
As the gay-rights movement gains ground nationally, Florida has some work to do to catch up and provide equal protection to all its citizens.
Source: Watermark Online
Written By: Susan Clary
St. Petersburg – When the petite 85-year old Edith Windsor slowly descended the stairs at the Mahaffey Theater to step to the microphone, hundreds of people rose to their feet and applauded wildly.
Source: Gay South Florida
Written By: Steve Rothaus
Edith Windsor, plaintiff in the IRS lawsuit that last year ended part of DOMA, the federal Defense of Marriage Act, spoke as guest of honor at Saturday night's Equality Florida gala in St. Petersburg. Here's her speech.
Source: Gay South Florida
Written By: Steve Rothaus
Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Sarah Zabel said Tuesday she would decide “in the next week or so” whether to suspend a local gay-marriage lawsuit until after some similar federal case is decided in the future.
In January, six same-sex couples sued Miami-Dade County Clerk Harvey Ruvin after his office wouldn’t issue them marriage licenses.
Ruvin’s lawyers had originally asked Zabel to suspend the case indefintely. On Tuesday, they changed their wording.
Source: South Florida Gay News
Written By: Christiana Lilly
Eighteen major corporations — including Marriot, Wells Fargo, Disney and Winn-Dixie — are taking a stand in the fight for LGBT equality in the corporate sector in Florida. Providing protection in the form of anti-discrimination laws for LGBT employees, they’re the newest amongst major corporations nationwide who’ve taken public action in the fight for LGBT equality in the workplace.
Source: The Gainesville Sun
Written By: Morgan Watkins
The Equality Florida Institute plans to honor the Alachua County Commission Friday evening with the Voice for Equality Award at its annual Greater Gainesville Gala.
The commission is being given this award to recognize its addition of protections regarding employment, housing and public accommodations for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the community, according to an Equality Florida news release.