(AP) At a Gotham Independent Film Awards overshadowed by the election of Donald Trump, Barry Jenkins' coming-of-age drama "Moonlight" shined brightest.

A lineup of LGBT-friendly musical artists is scheduled to perform in the city of Miami Beach all month long in March at a concert series originally scheduled to run alongside Winter Party, which was canceled due to a surge of COVID-19 outbreaks.

Tlo Ivy doesn’t consider herself a veteran in the South Florida drag scene. But for the last eight years, the transgender entertainer has been wowing audiences with her Britney Spears and Selena Quintanilla-inspired performances at Palace Bar, Azucar and Georgie’s Alibi, among other venues. 

Wigwood is back Feb. 4-5 with an all-new celebration of wigs, Wynwood, dragdom, and a dynamite good time. 

The ‘Homosexual Panic’ that started in the 1950s can be traced back to one event – the murder of Eastern Airlines Flight Attendant William T. Simpson in August of 1954.

Four South Floridians who have helped build bridges in the LGBT community will be honored at the sixth annual 4Ward Gala and Pa’Lante Awards on Thursday, Feb. 10, at the Biltmore Hotel, 1200 Anastasia Ave., in Coral Gables.

As the Miami International Film Festival gets underway this Friday, there are several fantastic LGBT films for queer audiences to check out before the fest ends March 16.

Drag queens walking on stilts, crowds dancing to pulsating beats, and the aroma of fresh food filled the streets of Little Havana as Gay8 Festival returned.

The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) celebrated its 40^th birthday in Miami last Saturday with its “Taste of Justice” event. NCLR isa national legal organization headquartered in San Francisco committed to advancing the civil and human rights of LGBT people and their families through litigation, legislation, policy, and public education.

An opulent manse in Miami, James Deering’s Vizcaya has played host to many events: a wedding, elaborate engagement shoot, and field trips of schoolchildren learning about Miami’s past.

On every third Thursday of the month, Mina’s Mediterraneo on Northeast 79th Street is giving Miami a new, and very welcomed, kind of ladies night. OK, very welcomed may be an understatement. From jump street, the Lesbian Takeover event at Mina’s has been an enormous success.

Next month will be three years since four men were arrested for attacking a gay couple after the closing festivities of Miami Beach Pride.

Defense attorneys for the four Miami area men accused of an anti-gay hate crime threw a curveball in court Nov. 18 when they told the judge they wanted a continuance in order to file a stand your ground motion.

In a repositioning move, LGBT activist Janelle Perez announced last week that she was dropping her bid for U.S. Congress to go after a Florida Senate seat.

Adele will return to North America for her first tour in five years. The North American tour dates begin on July 5 in St. Paul, MN at Xcel Energy Center and run through November 15 in Mexico City at Palacio de los Deportes.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Amazon has expanded its one-hour delivery service to Baltimore and Miami, after a four-month test run in parts of New York City.

Fabián Núñez, 55, Andrés Galfrascoli, 45, and their 6-year-old adopted daughter Sofía, are among the missing in the Surfside condominium collapse that happened in the early hours of Thursday. 

Unity Coalition/Coalición Unida celebrates Orgullo, Miami’s Hispanic and Indigenous Pride Festival, Oct. 1 – 15.

Miami finished in the top half of the Best 50 cities in the U.S. for artists, according to Rent.com.

How would you like to enjoy the latest Broadway shows, concerts and other performances for free?

City Theatre’s popular Summer Shorts festival of 10-minute plays returns to the Arsht Center in Miami, June 2 – July 2.

Miami City Ballet (MCB) concludes its 2021-22 season at the Broward Center in Fort Lauderdale, May 21 – 22, with “The Source,” a newly commissioned work by Claudia Schreier, a cinematic journey of the human experience through dance and technology. 

The Arsht Center in Miami will celebrate Pride Month with its fifth annual CommuniTea Dance on Saturday, June 25 at 5 p.m.

“Smoke, Lilies and Jade,” a multimedia performance inspired by the Harlem Renaissance and celebrating Black queerness, will be presented Friday, April 29 at 7 p.m. at the Underline Sound Stage Plaza, 800 S.W. 1st Ave. in downtown Miami.

Drag entertainer and R House Wynwood’s resident brunch hostess Athena Dion served as the keynote speaker at Florida International University’s Spring 2022 Lavender Graduation and Leadership Recognition April 23.

Azealia Banks has a love-hate relationship with the LGBT community.

Hot on the heels of its Drag Wars season finals, Azucar Nightclub launched a new weekly competition last week on Thursday night called "Azucar's Got Talent," a talent show on the scale of "America's Got Talent," only with drag queens and more.

Here are the winners of SFGN's "Best of 2016" in Miami Dade County.

These winners were chosen by readers for SFGN's Best of Miami-Dade's Pizza, Activist, and more.

If there is one thing that has been consistently obvious since the Presidential election, it’s that people, of all shapes, sizes, colors, and sexual orientations, don’t want to be heard, they demand to be heard.