Charlie Crist

• Political Party: Democrat
  
• Birth date: 7/24/56
  
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MIAMI — When former GOP Gov. Charlie Crist announced he’d run for his old job as a Democrat in 2014, party leaders rejoiced at the prospect of a pragmatic candidate able to win back centrist Republicans and independent voters who had soured on incumbent Rick Scott.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Six same-sex couples have filed a lawsuit in South Florida seeking to overturn Florida’s ban on same-sex marriage.

In an extraordinary interview, Florida’s former Republican Governor Charlie Crist apologized last month for having supported efforts to ban on same-sex marriage on the ballot in that state in 2008.

The co-founder of the Florida Tea Party says the local Republican Party in Broward County, Fla., is being taken over by gay “thugs.”

Nearly three years after losing a U.S. Senate campaign to Republican Marco Rubio and leaving the governor’s mansion, Charlie Crist is plotting a political comeback that seems fantastical even by Florida’s stranger-than-fiction standards.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A group that supports same-sex marriage in Florida said Wednesday that it isn’t confident an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court ruling will nullify the state’s gay marriage ban and is starting a public opinion campaign while waiting for the court to decide.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Former Fla. Gov. Charlie Crist has declared his support for same-sex marriage.

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 two foster children by a gay Miami couple. The Miami Herald reports: The unanimous 3-0 decision deals a critical blow to Florida’s 33-year-old law banning […]

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.