Shortly before Benjamin (Cooper Koch) leaves town to start his gay porn career in Los Angeles, he and straight best friend Dom (Jose Colon) hang out in a Maine gay bar in Carter Smith’s “Swallowed” (All The Dead Boys Productions).

The “Don’t Say Gay” bill that will most likely be signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis, would prohibit classroom topics covering sexual orientation or gender identity.

Just three days before American Brittney Griner was released from a Russian prison camp, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law legislation to prohibit the expression or dissemination in social media, television, movies, or other media of any statements with positive information about “non-traditional sexual relations.”

In a ruling that one legal activist said will put LGBT rights “on the chopping block,” the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24 ruled 6 to 3 that the U.S. Constitution “does not prohibit” states from banning abortion.

(WB) Under the cover of chaos the day after Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, the Trump administration has officially nixed regulations barring federal grantees in the Department of Health & Human Services from discriminating against LGBT people, including in adoption services.

A #ProtectTheChildren rally is being hosted this Saturday on Fort Lauderdale Beach, a gathering of conservative groups including Moms for Liberty and Gays Against Groomers.

D. James Kennedy Ministries, created by the same pastor who founded Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, addressed the fervor surrounding Fort Lauderdale giving the church a proclamation during its weekly Facebook Live.

D. James Kennedy Ministries responded to the outcry from the LGBT community after Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church was celebrated by the city of Fort Lauderdale, saying it was “deeply disappointed.”

Ugly words from the past are surfacing everywhere this week.

In a matter of one week, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed two bills that remove rights for LGBT people — making it easier to discriminate against them in sports and health care. 

A private collection of artworks by Keith Haring is on display through March 5 at Island City Cultural Center, 600 N.E. 21st Ct. in Wilton Manors.

Negative campaigning thwarted LGBT candidates in pivotal districts, a reminder of the challenges faced by coming out of the closet.

TOPEKA, Kan. - A Kansas sperm donor's battle to avoid being declared the legal father of a same-sex couple's child has some similarities to the fight for gay marriage, the man's attorney argued in court filings.

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The lone Democrat on a list of endorsements from Florida’s leading anti-LGBT organization hails from Broward County.

Described as a gospel-centered approach to leading in 2020, a panel of church officials offered viewpoints on Florida’s family culture. 

Four months after being shot during a Republican congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, Rep. Steve Scalise will give a speech to the Family Resource Center, a group against gay marriage rights. This comes despite the fact that a lesbian police officer tried to protect him after the shooting.

In the uproar over Fort Lauderdale’s celebration of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, much has been written about the church’s history of anti-LGBT positions.

When two California university students were expelled for being in same-sex marriages, they filed a lawsuit claiming the school violated anti-discrimination laws.

Political attacks on the LGBT community have felt increasingly personal over the past few years.

During its Tuesday night commission meeting, the Fort Lauderdale Commission presented a proclamation to Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church and Westminster Academy, two entities with a long anti-LGBT history.

Christiana Pushaw, press secretary to Gov. Ron DeSantis, has proven herself to be a lightning rod on Twitter.

The Florida Parental Rights in Education Act, known colloquially as the “Don’t Say Gay” law, is the first in 21 years to prohibit the discussion of gender and sexual diversity in schools.

Last year, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the Parental Rights in Education Act into law, prohibiting the discussion of LGBT topics in classrooms teaching kindergarten through third grade. 

Following in Florida’s footsteps, the red state of Wyoming has put its own “Don’t Say Gay” bill in the hands of its House of Representatives. 

Gov. Ron DeSantis and his GOP allies in the Florida Legislature are doubling down on the anti-LGBT rhetoric as bills to bully and silence students and teachers speed through committees.

(WM) Estonia’s anti-LGBT, far-right interior minister, Mart Helme, resigned Nov. 9, a day after he called President-elect Joe Biden and his son Hunter “corrupt characters” without providing further details or evidence.

(WB) The European Union has sanctioned two Chechnya officials over their role in an anti-LGBT crackdown.

(WB) The number of hate crime incidents targeting gays, lesbians, and bisexuals in the United States decreased slightly from 17% of the total number of hate crime incidents reported to the FBI in 2018 to 16.7% of the total number reported in 2019, according to the FBI’s annual Hate Crimes Statistics Report released Nov. 16.

After a news outlet reached out to the Florida Department of Education about its anti-bullying page, the department took it down and said it was “under review.”