Florida Agenda

By Cliff Dunn ORLANDO, FL – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has LGBT activists wondering if he goes “both ways” on gay rights issues. His call last week for a statewide referendum on same-sex marriage followed hot-on-the-heels of his nomination of the first openly gay justice to the state’s Supreme Court. Christie, 49, is on [...]

By Cliff Dunn MIAMI, FL – When ABC kicks off the fourteenth season of Dancing With the Stars, Olympic swimming champion Greg Louganis hopes to go for the gold as a member of the show’s dancing cast. Louganis, an Olympic gold medalist who competed in the 1976, 1984, and 1988 games, says the hit series [...]

“We Don’t Want to Stop the Music – We Just Want to Stop the Hazing.” By Cliff Dunn ORLANDO, FL – The parents of a Florida A&M University student killed last year after a hazing incident aboard a chartered bus say that they will sue the school and the bus company for the death of [...]

By Cliff Dunn Photo: Broward County Sheriff Al Lamberti is shown here with Captain Rick Wierzbicki who leads BSO’s Hate Crimes Task Force. Sheriff Al Lamberti says that the communities he polices are diverse, vibrant, and thriving, but he remains deeply concerned and troubled that Broward County ranks first among Florida counties for reported hate [...]

By Cliff Dunn Photo: Cardinal Francis George (Courtesy: CNS/Nancy Wiechec) Gay rights groups in and around Chicago are condemning the city’s Roman Catholic leader for what they say is comparing the LGBT rights movement to the Ku Klux Klan. The offending remarks from Cardinal Francis George were said during an interview on December 21 with [...]

By RORY BARBAROSSA The Orlando Sentinel reported last week that LGBT rights activists are anticipating a rush of same-sex couples at Orlando City Hall when the Central Florida city’s new domestic-partnership registry launches in January. Officials say that not all of those couples will be from Orlando, nor will all of them be gay. City [...]

Former President Bill Clinton will share his insights and observations in a program entitled Embracing Our Common Humanity. antibiotics no prescription The event will take place at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday, March 20 at 7:30 p.m., in the venue’s Au-Rene Theater. The evening will feature the 42nd [...]

By Bob Kecskemety The up and down relationship between Proposition 8, California’s ban on same-sex marriage and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco appears to have come closer to an end with the LGBT community becoming the winner. In what looks like a major victory for same-sex marriage, last week a federal [...]

By JAMES MICHAELS Bishop Eddie L. Long of his New Birth Missionary Baptist Church resigned from the pulpit last Sunday to try to save his marriage just days after his wife Vanessa filed for divorce. They had been married for 21 years and have four children. Long, said that he would remain as head pastor [...]

By BOB KECSKEMETY Photo: The AIDS Memorial Quilt of the Names Project Foundation is displayed on the National Mall, 1987 December 1 of every year is known as World AIDS Day and is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic and the spread of the HIV infection. Various memorials are held each year, both [...]