(WB) Activists around the world are celebrating the election of President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.

A gay Frenchman is seeking repatriation from a Turkish prison in a terrifying story that mirrors the cult 1970’s film “Midnight Express.”

(WB) Advocacy groups in battleground states have pulled out all the stops in their efforts to encourage members of the LGBT community to vote.

The local LGBT community is mourning the death of Alcee Hastings, a longtime Democratic member of the House of Representatives, and champion of civil rights and advocate for those living with HIV. He was 84.

There are five contenders for Best LGBT Activist in Palm Beach County. 

A Black woman was swimming. The police were called. She was kicked out.

(WM) Animal rights activist Carole Baskin, one of the divisive subjects of Netflix’s docuseries “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,” has come out as bisexual.

After retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson made headlines last week, saying that homosexuality is a choice, citing prisoners who "go to prison straight -- and when they come out, they're gay," writer and LGBT activist Dan Savage is calling out the possible 2016 GOP presidential candidate.

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Back in 2011, Democratic Congressman Alcee Hastings stood at the podium to deliver the keynote address for the Broward County observance of the International Transgender Day of Remembrance.

There are five contenders for Broward’s Best New LGBT Activist award.  

Pat Rocco (1934-2018) was a pioneer gay filmmaker and activist. Though he was popular and well-known during his heyday he is hardly remembered today.

(WB) A prominent LGBT activist from Trinidad and Tobago died in D.C. on March 4.

(WB) LGBT activists joined tens of thousands of protesters at the Lincoln Memorial on Friday to demand the end of systemic racism and police brutality in one of the largest Black Lives Matter marches of the year. 

A Miami man was arrested Tuesday for killing his wife, transgender activist and beauty queen Yunieski Carey Herrera. Her death comes in the middle of Transgender Awareness Week.

(WB) Carmen Vázquez, a longtime LGBT activist, died on Wednesday from coronavirus complications. She was 72.

She was an unapologetic Black trans woman who educated countless through her activism.

Allan Hendricks, a native of South Florida, is an award-winning landscape architect and Vice President, Landscape Architecture at Caulfield & Wheeler Inc. He joined the firm in 2002 upon graduation from the University of Florida. 

Truly, how does one capture the life of your love, the love of your life, a trailblazer, a devout friend, a rescuer, an advocate, an activist, an artist, in mere words? When my partner, Diana Hemingway, first died by suicide on December 20th, 2016, I wrote fervently about her in the days that followed. The words flowed easily, as it felt like she was still here. I could still see her sitting across the couch from me. I could still see her eyes, as I stared into them from where my head had time and again rested in her lap. Most of all, I could still hear Diana's voice in my head, her words so often filled with frustration and angst over some form of oppression or act of injustice.

(WB) A prominent transgender activist in Colombia died on Saturday.

(WB) An LGBT activist in Puerto Rico regained access to his verified and personal Facebook pages on Wednesday after being banned for more than two months.

As you may recall from past columns, the median sales price of a single family home in Wilton Manors (arms length transactions only) is now in the $360,000 range. That's well beyond the affordability of the typical person (or even couple).

Michael Callen (1955-1993) is not as well-remembered today as he deserves to be. But during the peak years of the AIDS crisis, Callen was known the world over not only for his AIDS activism, but also for his music.

These people have gone out of their way to help others, thus earning the honor of SFGN's Best Activists of 2020.

After giving a speech at a luncheon in Chicago Thursday, Caitlyn Jenner was confronted by a group of transgender activists, where one protester told the former Olympian over a loudspeaker: "You are an insult to trans people, you are an insult to women," ET Online reports.

(CNN) -- The transgender community is celebrating several recent milestones thanks to one teen doing her part for transgender visibility.

The morning before he took part in a protest against Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act [ACA], Wilton Manors activist Michael Rajner predicted an arrest was in his near future. “I’m likely getting arrested today,” Rajner wrote in an email to SFGN.