Fort Lauderdale FL

Paul Miller sounded happy in during a prison phone call about online support from other racists, planning his comeback. Prosecutors recorded that and played it in court.

“I tell everyone, when they ask me why I dive, I dive purely for my dad,” Jordan Windle proudly said.

A pickup truck ran over at least two people at a Pride parade in Florida after narrowly missing a vehicle carrying Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

Mayor Dean Trantalis had pink flags left around his home and slurs hurled at him. He’s not alone in being targeted.

“’They’re putting me on a ventilator’ was the last thing he wrote me,” his best friend said.

Organizers have said the motivation for the attack wasn’t terrorism & two people were quickly arrested. Thankfully, no one died.

The police officer asked her about her gender identity and said that she would be male “for the purposes of this citation.”

Craig Jungwirth was cleared on federal charges after threatening the LGBTQ community in Fort Lauderdale but his legal woes continue.

Mayor Jack Seiler has tried to weasel out, saying he didn’t have a say in choosing Focus on the Family President Jim Daly as the keynote speaker.

It all began over wandering off course and kicking a tent.

Craig Jungwirth wrote: “If you losers thought the Pulse nightclub shooting was bad, wait till you see what I’m planning for Labor Day.”

A judge in Broward County, who in August declared Florida’s same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional, only to later vacate his order on a technicality, has again ruled against the ban.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Two health organizations filed a complaint with federal officials Thursday, alleging that some Florida insurance companies are violating the Affordable Care Act by structuring their drug policies in a way that discourages consumers with HIV and AIDS from choosing their plans.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A South Florida college student is asking an appellate court to recognize his same-sex marriage after he says he was denied in-state tuition.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A Florida lawmaker has introduced a bill that would allow Floridians to enter “domestic partnerships.” State Sen. Eleanor Sobel (D-Fort Lauderdale) introduced the “Families First” bill (SB 196), which would extend legal protections to same-sex couples, including hospital visitation rights and the ability to make healthcare decisions for a partner. “This bill […]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A political advertisement in the current issue of the Florida Agenda, an LGBT weekly newspaper distributed throughout central and south Florida, and paid for by the Broward (County) Log Cabin Republican Club of Florida, attacked Democrats and President Barack Obama — using an image of the lifeless body of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens in the aftermath of last month’s attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi, Libya.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Broward County School Board members on Wednesday unanimously passed a formal resolution to recognize LGBT History Month, which takes place every October.

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.

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.

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.