TALLAHASSEE — Governor Charlie Crist says he’ll review a judge’s decision striking down a Florida law banning homosexuals from adopting children before deciding whether the state should drop its appeal. Crist made that statement Tuesday after a Cabinet meeting in Tallahassee. It came...

Despite the efforts of anti-gay extremists to incite fear into the hearts of voters who may consider electing an openly gay male candidate, Craig Lowe, former City Commissioner was elected mayor of Gainesville, FL a mere hours ago. This victory makes Lowe the first openly gay candidate to be elected...

Performance artist, Brian Feldman has had enough, and he’s taking a stand. Citing a recently passed Florida law defining marriage as an institution shared only between a man and a woman as “absurd,” he’s decided to demonstrate the law’s absurdity in a the best way he can:...

(CNN) — The Transportation Security Administration has launched an internal investigation into an air marshal field office in Florida where supervisors are alleged to have used a crew assignment board to ridicule and keep score on women, gays and minorities, sources told CNN. The board, resembling...

Gay residents in Florida are bracing for a court ruling on the state’s gay adoption ban that is expected to arrive on a Wednesday in the near future. The U.S. court of appeals for the third circuit in Miami will rule on whether the gay adoption ban is constitutional. The case involves Martin Gill,...

A 16-year-old Florida girl was found guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death last year of a classmate who rejected her romantic advances. Teah Wimberly was convicted of killing 15-year-old Amanda Collette, reports United Press International. Wimberly sent Collette text messages that declared...

NEW PORT RICHIE, FLA. — John Allen Ditullio is a walking billboard for the neo-Nazi movement: a large 6-inch swastika tattooed under his right ear, barbed wire inked down the right side of his face, and an extreme and very personal vulgarity scrawled on one side of his neck. Jurors will never...

An Orlando McDonald’s (MCD) has fired one of its managers after he told a 17-year-old job applicant (via voice mail), “You will not get hired. We do not hire faggots.” The manager didn’t even get his terminology right — “faggot” is a hateful term for a male homosexual, whereas the applicant...

The Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund on Monday filed a complaint with the Florida human rights commission on behalf of a 17-year-old woman who says that McDonald’s refused to hire her because she is transgender. Zikerria Bellamy applied online for a management position with a McDonald’s...

A man was sentenced to two life sentences Tuesday for killing a gay student in 2007. William Brown, 23, was first convicted to first-degree murder and robbery in the death of 25-year-old Ryan Skipper, who was reportedly stabbed 19 times on the side of a road in Polk County, Fla. Prosecutors alleged that...