Florida Agenda

Speakers Give Faces, Voice to Epidemic By DMITRY RASHNITSOV Three years after Todd Murray was diagnosed with HIV he decided he wasn’t going to let the disease take over his life. Murray founded the group Hope’s Voice, which is dedicated to providing programs, educational lectures, events and campaigns that reach the hearts and minds of [...]

(Photo: from Teatro El Públio’s play, courtesy of the artist, one of the performing companies in the GLBT  Out in the Tropics festival) By DMITRY RASHNITSOV Gender-bending, lesbian marriage, Cuban theater, queer circus arts, racy humor, laughter, tears and much more will fill the stage at Out in the Tropics, South Florida’s first Lesbian, Gay, [...]

(Photo: Courtesy of Women for Equality Hosted by Equality Florida, photo by Vanessa Brito) Obama issues Father’s Day Proclamation Acknowledging Gay fathers; DOJ Honors LGBT Employees By Dmitry Rashnitsov Equality Florida Executive Director Nadine Smith and Deputy Director Stratton Pollitzer will be in attendance at Tuesday June 22nd’s White House reception celebrating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual [...]

By Troy Maillis After schedule changes and some “diva” behavior, Jennifer Holliday, the headline performer at this year’s annual Stonewall Street Festival, wowed the excited crowds with hit songs such as “One Night Only” and “I Am Changing” from the Broadway smash-hit “Dreamgirls”.  A seasoned performer for 30 years, Holliday kept the Wilton Manors crowds [...]

(Photo: South Florida Pride Wind Ensemble marching in last year’s Stonewall Festival Parade. Photo by Dennis Dean) By James Michaels This Sunday, June 20, 2010 is the eleventh annual Stonewall Street Festival and Parade produced by Pride of Greater Fort Lauderdale. This is the second of the two annual gay pride celebrations held in Fort [...]

CALL TO ACTION: Call on Clear Channel Outdoor to Explain Rejection of St Pete Pride Billboards Clear Channel Outdoor, the world’s largest outdoor advertising firm reaching millions of consumers, has rejected two gay pride ads in its local Tampa Bay, Florida market. The ads were submitted by St. Pete Pride organizers. One ad features a [...]

(Photo: by Adam Bouska. Shown: Reichen Lehmkuhl, winner of season four of The Amazing Race.  http://www.facebook.com/noh8campaign) NOH8 Campaign co-founders Adam Bouska and Jeff Parshley, who will be leading the 2010 Stonewall Pride Parade, have announced that they will be taking official NOH8 portraits in a studo at CopyThis in Wilton Manors on Monday, June 21, [...]

By (Former YN3) Stephen R. Lang When the issue of repealing the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell United States military policy was discussed in our office it brought up a lot of ghosts from my past.  I had served honorably for 87.5% of my time and when they say in Boot Camp that 1 in 4 [...]

A Comprehensive look at Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the anti gay and lesbian legislation that the United States Congress is on the verge of repealing By DMITRY RASHNITSOV The very first president of the United States, George Washington, once said, “An army of asses led by a lion is better than an army of lions [...]

Seventy-seven percent of Americans now say they know someone who is gay or lesbian, a new CBS News poll finds – an increase of 35 percentage points since 1992, when a majority of Americans said they did not. More than six in ten Americans say they have a close friend, work colleague or relative who [...]