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IN THE LIFE travels to Florida to speak with Martin Gill, a foster father whose case is challenging Florida's ban on gay adoptions, meet with openly gay Mayor Craig Lowe, and learn about the struggle toward legislative equality in the Sunshine State. Featured: Attorney Elizabeth Schwartz, Equality Florida Executive Director Nadine Smith, the ACLU’s Howard Simon and writers Penn Bullock and Brandon K. Thorp.

Equality Florida's endorsed candidates were hugely successful in the primaries because of the time you put in making calls, entering data and knocking on doors with us. We need your help to get them across the finish line. Here's just a few of the reasons we need you on our general election team: -We can elect Florida's first pro-equality Governor. -We can elect a long time outspoken supporter of LGBT equality to the Attorney General's office.

Great news! By a unanimous decision, an appeals court has upheld a Miami judge who ruled that Florida's anti-gay adoption ban is unconstitutional.

This morning the Third District Court of Appeals in Miami, FL upheld a lower court ruling that declared Florida's ban on gay and lesbian adoption to be unconstitutional.

Call the Senate NOW: 1-202-224-3121"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Must End This Year

Sunday night we posted a position statement on LGBT issues from Gov. Christ covering a wide range of topics, including: calling for an end to Don't Ask Don't Tell, passage of the Uniting American Families Act and an end to anti-gay adoption laws, among others. Today, in a story from the Palm Beach Post, Gov. Christ states that he's had a change of heart about Florida's horrible law banning gays and lesbians from adopting.

(TALLAHASSEE) Candidates in the most watched U.S. Senate race in the country have made equal rights for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community a centerpiece of their campaigns this week. Governor Charlie Crist released an LGBT Issue Statement covering a wide range of topics, including: calling for an end to Don't Ask Don't Tell, passage of the Uniting American Families Act and an end to anti-gay adoption laws, among others. Crist statement is the most comperehensive pro-LGBT equality stand of a sitting governor in Florida's history.

Governor Crist and his campaign team reached out to Equality Florida several weeks ago to let us know of their intention to spell out the Governor's positions on federal LGBT issues and to get our input on the most important areas that should be addressed. The resulting official position statements are below. This is the furthest a sitting Florida Governor has ever gone in publicly supporting LGBT issues.Florida Governor Charlie Crist will be publicizing a comprehensive LGBT position paper this week.

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Today the Florida Supreme Court agreed to take Amendments 3, 7 and 9 off of the November ballot. The court also struck down a challenge from members of the legislature against Amendment 5 and Amendment 6- the fair district amendments promoted by FairDistrictsFlorida.org

In 2005 notorious anti-LGBT State Senator and then Hillsborough County Commissioner Rhonda Storms led a successful effort to ban county recognition of LGBT pride celebrations. This hateful policy was aimed at silencing our community and sending us back into the closet. But instead of feeling defeated and demoralized, our community rallied together with Equality Florida and marched through the streets of downtown Tampa over 5,000 strong.

Hours after sparking a firestorm with comments during a CNN interview, Florida Governor Charlie Crist says he does NOT support an amendment to the US Constitution that would ban marriage for gay couples.

TALLAHASSEE, FL – To celebrate the 90th anniversary of women’s right to vote, a coalition of statewide organizations have committed to getting out the vote this election year. August 26th, 2010, commemorates the 72 year struggle and the groundbreaking victory of women with the passage of the 19th Amendment.

Bill McCollum Still Paying for George Rekers In a stunning defeat, Bill McCollum lost the 2010 Florida Republican Primary by 3% despite having the full support of the Christian Family Council, Florida's Republican party establishment and prominent national Republican figures, including Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Tea Party leader Dick Armey. Why? Two words - George Rekers.

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