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Orlando mayor offers non-apology for omitting LGBTQs from Pulse memorial

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Nearly one year later, LGBTQ victims and survivors of the Pulse massacre are being erased by politicians from local mayors all the way up to the governor.

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Florida Gov. Rick Scott: marriage equality is ‘the law of the land’

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

"The Supreme Court has already made a decision," the Republican governor told Fox News.

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Orlando’s gay commissioner: GOP ‘loaded those bullets with hatred’

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

City commissioner Patty Sheehan calls out the shallow support of Governor Rick Scott and Senator Marco Rubio.

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After Orlando: A tale of two Floridas

Saturday, June 25, 2016

Florida's Key West is one of the most gay-friendly places in the country. The Florida Panhandle (many locals call it the Redneck Riviera) is a different story.

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Florida gov. Rick Scott chased out Starbucks by furious woman: ‘You’re an a**hole!’

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

All he wanted was a cup of coffee. What he got was a thorough lip-lashing.

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Florida has new laws on same-sex marriage and a Confederate statue

Friday, March 11, 2016

Governor Rick Scott signed into law language that specifies clergy don't have to marry same-sex couples — a right many said is already protected under state law and the U.S. Constitution.

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Gay adoption ban stricken from Florida laws after four decades

Thursday, June 11, 2015

Republican Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill Thursday that removes the language from Florida's statutes - though the ban hasn't been enforced for the past five years.

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Florida AG, governor say they will keep fighting to preserve gay marriage ban

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida will continue to fight to prohibit same-sex marriage even as other states are allowing it following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to ignore their appeals. The court's decision to turn away appeals…

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Fla. officials file notice to appeal federal same-sex marriage ruling

Thursday, September 4, 2014

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Defendants in two federal lawsuits challenging Florida’s marriage ban filed a notice Thursday that they are appealing the August 21 ruling by U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle overturning Florida’s ban on same-sex…

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Charlie Crist urges Fla. governor not to appeal same-sex marriage ruling

Friday, August 29, 2014

Former Florida governor Charlie Crist, who won this week's Democratic primary in his bid to return to the governor's office, sent a letter Friday to GOP Gov. Rick Scott, urging him not to appeal the recent…

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