ORLANDO, Fla. -- Commissioners in Orange County, Fla., voted earlier this week to extend anti-discrimination laws, adding marital status, sexual orientation and gender identity to other protected statuses in private sectors of business and housing.

Bringing an end to Florida's 33-year-old ban on gay adoptions, state attorney general Bill McCollum announced Friday that he will not appeal to the state supreme court a lower court ruling that the ban was unconstitutional.

Florida will cease to enforce its ban gay adoptions, as the Department of Children and Families announced Tuesday that it would not appeal the September decision by the Third District Court of Appeals that the ban was unconstitutional.

A court ruling declaring Florida's ban against gay adoption unconstitutional was upheld Wednesday in a decision by the Third District Court of Appeals in Miami, affirming the controversial adoption of [...]

Charlie Crist, the current governor of Florida and Independent candidate for U.S. Senate, is preparing to endorse an wide array of pro-LGBT legislation and gay rights issues, as early as this week, according to a report by RawStory.com.

Bill McCollum, Florida's Attorney General and a Republican candidate for Governor, has made it clear he supports his state's ban on gay adoption, and he doesn't think gay people should be allowed to be foster parents, either.

File this under "WTF?" Florida lawmakers are hoping to pass a $75 million incentive package to attract movie studios to film in the sunshine state, but a little noticed provision [...]

Florida's outdated gay adoption ban took another hit after a Miami judge approved the adoption by a lesbian couple. [caption id="attachment_5671" align="alignleft" width="320" caption="Alenier, right, and Leon, with their adopted [...]

Fort Lauderdale attorney and radio host Norm Kent plans to launch a new weekly newspaper geared toward South Florida's LGBTQ community. The new print and online publication, the South Florida [...]

Buju Banton, the Jamaican reggae star whose anti-gay lyrics have drawn international criticism, is in a federal lockup in Miami, facing drug conspiracy charges, reports the Miami Herald. Drug Enforcement [...]

[caption id="attachment_3814" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Gregory Higgs"][/caption] North Miami Police have determined Miami teacher Charles Brown was stabbed to death last week because he didn't want to make a relationship work [...]

It was to be a night of hope and promise for the LGBT community, but instead the crushing defeat of Maine's gay marriage law delivered another setback for gay rights [...]

MIAMI -- A federal court in Miami has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Washington state lesbian who was not allowed to visit her dying partner at Jackson Memorial Hospital. [...]

The Florida state court of appeals began hearing arguments Wednesday on last year's ruling that struck down the state's ban on gay adoption. The state is appealing a Miami-Dade County [...]