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Thursday Watercooler: Family of dead student say he was not gay

James Withers — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:34:16 +0000

Tea Party is no different from high-school kids. There are multiple problems I have with Tea Party acolytes. For 8 years, when a certain Republican president was spending cash we didn’t have,(...)

Thursday Watercooler: Bishop Long’s accusers speak up

James Withers — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:08:16 +0000

Florida teacher back in the classroom. Social studies pedagogue Jerry Buell is back teaching students. The teacher was suspended for his Facebook outburst about gay marriage and an upset tummy.(...)

Thursday Watercooler: Santorum says there was more freedom when the USA started

James Withers — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:44:30 +0000

She’s baaaaaaaaack. Former witch Christine O’Donnell walked out of her CNN interview last night. She was on Piers Morgan’s show and didn’t like the “rude” host asking her about same sex(...)

Florida principal threatens gay students for holding hands

Jennifer Vanasco — Thu, 19 May 2011 12:30:27 +0000

Broward County officials are concerned about the actions of a high school principal in Popmano Beach, Fla., who confronted a pair of lesbian students who were holding hands on the way to(...)

Gay candidate with defaced signs wins Florida council seat

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:02:00 +0000

A Miami Shores politician whose campaign signs were defaced with anti-gay slurs won his bid for a seat on the local village council.

Jesse Walters beat incumbent Prospero G. Herrera II and(...)

Neff: An adoption that is an equality milestone

logointern1 — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:00:18 +0000

An adoption became final Jan. 19. Each adoption is likely a hallmark event for the child, for the parents, for the extended family.

This adoption in a Miami-Dade courtroom certainly was a(...)

Gay Fla. couple who fought adoption ban adopts 2

Jennifer Vanasco — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:00:16 +0000

(Miami) A gay Miami man has officially adopted two brothers after he successfully fought to overturn Florida’s three-decade old ban on gay adoptions.

Martin Gill and his partner were the boys’(...)

Thursday Watercooler: Looking for gay families? Go south!

James Withers — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:34:17 +0000

The way we are. This article does a whole bunch of myth breaking. Check it out and make sure your Palin loving Republican cousin does too. Guess where a lot of gay parents are raising kids?(...)

Gay parenting is more common down South according to Census

logointern1 — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:00:49 +0000

(Jacksonville, Fla.) Recent data from the Census Bureau found that Jacksonville hosts one of the biggest gay parent populations in the country and child rearing by gay parents is more common(...)

Neff: Where was the gay adoption storm in Florida?

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:32:35 +0000

The uproar never came.

Florida’s 3rd District Court of Appeals ruled against the state’s anti-gay adoption ban as mid-term campaigns shifted into overdrive and the uproar never came. We(...)