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

Our Fund Foundation took a moment to give thanks to those who give their time, treasure, and talent.

Rolando Chang Barrero has done a lot for Palm Beach County, so perhaps that’s why readers voted him as the Best LGBT Activist, Best Artist, and his art gallery in West Palm Beach won for Best Art Gallery.

Cameron Kasky, a gun control activist and survivor of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, has come out as queer.

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.

If Gov. Ron DeSantis does not act soon, three South Florida legislative districts will have no representation when the 2022 regular session begins in January.

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.

A woman who loved animals and volunteered her time to work with abandoned and abused animals died after being bitten by a dog.

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

(WB) Swedish immigration officials on Friday detained two activists from Uganda who were en route to a human rights conference.

Maurice Tomlinson has been fighting in court with the Jamaican government and nine different anti-gay religious groups for the right to kiss his husband. 

For best activist and drag queen of Miami-Dade, the winner goes to Athena Dion, who also won Best Drag Queen in 2020.

The readers have chosen Chris Caputo as the Best Local Activist and Best Wilton Manors Commissioner!

Teri Johnston, Key West’s first lesbian mayor, has won Best Activist.

(WB) A pioneering transgender activist in Pakistan continues her fight for change in her country.

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.

(LA Blade) A powerful voice for the trans community, writer and journalist Rebecca Juro died at the hospital Dec. 17, suffering from complications caused by lung cancer.

When Urvashi Vaid died at 63 in May 2022 after a valiant fight with breast cancer, thousands of LGBTQ people who had been touched by her decades of activism mourned her passing.

(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.