Nonprofit organization Smash the Slumlords is hoping to bring Miami’s queer nerds together for a good cause.

(SS) At least six college students apparently overdosed on Thursday evening, Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue officials said.

Five years ago, the dream to create an alliance of advocacy for gay youth was just that, a dream. Today, it’s a realized one in the form of The Alliance for GLBTQ Youth.

Public restrooms and restrooms accessible to the public — like those in a Starbucks or McDonald’s — are not the same.

(SS) The city's homeless and their belongings have been moved so they are less visible to visitors walking by downtown's Stranahan Park.

This week read about a homeless shelter for the LGBT community opening up in Sorsogon, and gay Panamanians wanting equal rights in marriage.

LGBT youth make up a disproportionate number of the homeless population. They face higher rates of suicide, depression, anxiety, and sexual assault. Reginald Collins is just one of a growing number who came out — at the cost of having a home.

And Gov. Scott cut $100,000 from homeless programs in Miami

(WB) The Trump administration has appeared to have given up a proposed regulation that would have allowed taxpayer-funded homeless shelters to refuse to place transgender people consistent with their gender identity, although another measure permitting HHS federal grantees to discriminate against LGBT people may be imminent.

Justice was served for two same-sex couples after a judge ruled that a former county clerk violated their rights when she refused to grant them marriage licenses. 

”We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and cared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.” – Mother Teresa

COVID-19 has been an emotionally trying time for everyone.

(WB) A group of transgender activists is working to open a shelter for homeless trans and gender non-conforming people in New Orleans.

Many who live on the streets depend on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to buy groceries, but there are no kitchens on the street, and SNAP won’t buy them hot food.

The guy in the median, holding a cardboard sign with an unreadable plea that was faded by time and the weather, walked with a palsied leg in the frigid rain, hoping someone would give him some money.

On any given night across this country, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development estimates that about 40,000 veterans are on the street because they’re homeless. This holiday season, Celeste Ellich is working to try and lower that statistic by at least one.