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MIAMI — Three people — a gay man and two lesbians — are all named as parents on a 23-month-old girl's birth certificate in South Florida. [ Read more → ]

WASHINGTON -- More than 100 people gathered in Dupont Circle on Friday for a vigil in honor of a lesbian couple who was shot last week in a Texas park. [ Read more → ]

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. [ Read more → ]

Florida's outdated gay adoption ban took another hit after a Miami judge approved the adoption by a lesbian couple.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 son.(Miami Herald photo) "][/caption] Vanessa Alenier and Melanie Leon of Hollywood, FL, became the third... [ Read more → ]

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 Administration agents say Banton, real name Mark Anthony Myrie, has been in custody since Thursday... [ Read more → ]

[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 with his former boyfriend, Gregory Higgs, reports WTVJ-TV. Higgs has been arrested and charged with... [ Read more → ]

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 hospital took the position that we thought was pretty extreme -- that it has... [ Read more → ]

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 judge's November 2008 ruling that the state law that bans gay adoptions is unconstitutional. The... [ Read more → ]

Recently fired Miami new anchor Charles Perez took his side of the story to the Daily Beast today, in a wide-ranging column explaining why he'll continue his suit against ABC Affiliate WPLG-TV Channel 10, claiming they fired him because he was gay, attacking the state... [ Read more → ]