FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Gay Republicans joined many of their straight counterparts in Florida Tuesday night in congratulating former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for his decisive victory in the Florida Republican primary.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Gay rights advocates expect a strong turnout of same-sex couples at Orlando's City Hall when the city's new domestic-partnership registry opens next month. The registry, which takes effect Jan. 12, will extend vital legal protections to gay and lesbian families.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The Orlanda City Council on Monday voted unanimously to enact a domestic partnership registry, as the city became the first in Central Florida to recognize relationships of same-sex couples.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The Broward County Commission on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve Florida's first countywide Equal Benefits Ordinance (EBO), a measure that requires the county's vendors to provide domestic partners with benefits equal to those offered to spouses of married employees.

TAMPA, Fla. -- The Pinellas County School Board this week voted to reject a $54,838 grant for a program run by a subsidiary of the Boy Scouts of America because the organization discriminates against gay youth.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A year ago this month, Florida's Third District Court of Appeals in Miami-Dade, ruled a 33 year-old law that barred gays and lesbians from adopting children unenforceable and the state's attorney general declined to challenge it.

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.

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.

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.

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 [...]

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.

A candidate for city council in Miami Shores, Fla., this weekend discovered several campaign yard signs had been defaced with anti-gay epithets.

Miami police have arrested a man in the shooting deaths of two men that he thought were gay and coming onto him.

[caption id="attachment_15715" align="alignleft" width="180" caption="Peter Avsenew"][/caption] A suspect is in custody in the double homicide of a gay couple found slain in their Wilton Manors, Fla., home over the weekend. [...]

Police in Wilton Manors, Fla., have identified two men who they believe are the victims of a double murder that occurred over the weekend. Stephen Adams, 52, and Kevin Powell, 47, were found dead inside their home on Sunday night. The two men were domestic partners.