Florida Agenda

Coffee Chain Embraces Diversity in the Face of Religious Conservative Boycott SEATTLE, WA – Marriage equality supporters delivered a giant “thank you” card to Starbucks officials for their support of diversity and inclusiveness. The card, which contained more than 650,000 signatures, was partly delivered in response to an online campaign launched to protest the coffee [...]

NEW YORK, NY – Executives at ABC television have axed a 30-second spot for Madonna’s “Truth or Dare” perfume, calling the ad too racy to run during the network’s primetime lineup. According to The New York Post, ABC programmers took a magnifying glass to the Material Girl’s commercial, making a list of editing requirements before [...]

NEW YORK, NY – The suicide of a popular gay New York City therapist received a sad post-script last month when his publisher announced what the late Bob Bergeron had already predicted: there would be no release of his selfwritten self-help guide, “The Right Side of Forty: The Complete Guide to Happiness for Gay Men [...]

ANN ARBOR, MI – A new study from University of Michigan School of Social Work shows that LGBT college students who have experienced at least mild discrimination are at a greater risk for alcohol addiction compared to their straight counterparts. The study authors also concluded that if heightened national awareness about the consequences of bullying [...]

Florida Family Association: Gays Have Corrupted the “Star Wars” Universe TAMPA – Fans of the “Stars Wars” film franchise may be surprised to learn that the “Old Republic” is still threatened—not by the evil Lords of the Sith but by members of the religious right who are expressing their anger at the creator of “Star [...]

  Kirk Cameron, the star of the hit sitcom “Growing Pains,” told CNN host Piers Morgan last week that he believes homosexuality to be “unnatural,” adding “I think that it’s detrimental, and ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization (Florida Agenda, March 8). Appearing on the March 2 broadcast of “Piers Morgan [...]