The OUTshine LGBT Film Festival will honor actor, comedian, and jazz singer Lea DeLaria with the Vanguard Award at its opening night ceremony, Friday, April 23 at 7 p.m. at Dezerland Drive-In in North Miami. 

Give Miami Day, one of the largest annual online giving events in the Southeast United States, took place on Nov. 16 for 24 hours of giving beginning at 12 a.m. Nov. 16 and ending at 12 a.m. Nov. 17.

The Miami-Dade Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce presented its Spotlight Mega-Mixer Networker event alongside the Young Professionals Network (YPN) Feb. 24 at the Colonnade Hotel in Coral Gables. 

Nathan’s Bar is holding a Miami Beach Pride fundraiser supporting homeless LGBT youth from Thursday, Sept. 16, to Friday, Sept. 17. 

The fight against the “Don’t Say Gay” bill is facing obstacles beyond Republican attacks in Tallahassee.

The former marketing director of SFGN, John Fugate, thought his short jaunt to San Juan last month would be a great respite after a year of surviving pandemically compromised times.

Allies of the LGBT community, including local leaders and nonprofit organizations, came out to support the fight against the “Don’t Say Gay” bill recently passed by the Florida Senate. 

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.

Three South Florida queens competed for the title of Miss Miami Beach Pride on Sept. 14, at the Faena Forum, 3300 Collins Ave., but only one walked away with the crown for 2021.  

One of the accused ringleaders of a gay Hungarian sex-slave ring was sentenced to 11 years in a Florida prison Tuesday for human trafficking, the Miami Herald reports.

Jorge Diaz-Johnston, a plaintiff in Miami-Dade’s landmark ruling to legalize same-sex marriage, was found dead in a landfill about an hour from Tallahassee on Jan. 8, the Tallahassee Democrat reports.

She’s a tennis legend, cancer survivor, and an outspoken advocate for LGBT rights. On Friday, October 10, Martina Navratilova is among the special guests attending the LPAC ‘Cocktails & Conversation’ fundraiser in Miami.

As marriage equality becomes the law across the Sunshine State, one Florida institution has sent a clear message to its employees: post any support of same-sex marriage on your personal social media account and you could lose your job.

Seven cities in South Florida, not six as SFGN initially reported last week, received perfect scores on the 2021 Human Rights Campaign’s Municipal Equality Index report.

Prolific nonagenarian author, actor and lyricist David Leddick is not slowing down. His oeuvre ranges from a series of critically-acclaimed illustrated volumes about the male nude and steamy novels to commentary on gay culture.

The Group III seat on the Miami Beach Commission will stay in gay hands.

“We protect, we help, we call 911,” reads a new initiative from the Miami Beach. A new program in the city allows businesses to declare themselves to be a “Safe Space” for LGBT residents and visitors.

Miami Beach Pride is a 10-day affair stretching over two weekends.

Miami Beach Pride is looking for committed partners to add to their LGBTQ+ Legacy Couples program.

“What an amazing weekend of love and gay pride!”

No masks or vaccinations, no pride. That’s the message delivered by the Miami Beach Pride committee, weeks before its first COVID-era festival and parade – when tens of thousands of LGBT people could show up to celebrate along Ocean Drive.

An LGBT leader who was assassinated for being out, loud, and proud, is being granted a lasting honor in South Florida.

Openly gay politician Michael Góngora won reelection in Miami Beach, representing the city for a third time as Commissioner.

Miami Book Fair International, the nation’s largest literary event hosted annually by Miami Dade College, will again highlight issues and authors of interest to the LGBT community.

Choreographer Pioneer Winter had just started on his largest work to date when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, shuttering rehearsal halls and performance venues overnight.

“Sunshine in Motion” is the theme as Miami City Ballet (MCB) finally returns to stages in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties following the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Sunshine in Motion” is the theme as Miami City Ballet (MCB) finally returns to stages in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties following the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Miami Femme’s Coalition and supporting organizations are holding a Femme’s Day of Resistance on International Women’s Day this Wednesday, March 8 at 6 p.m.

Athena Dion thinks most drag queens have hearts of gold. But if that's so, then the hearts of Dion and her Dream Queens must be multi-platinum.

Following a controversial tweet by President Donald Trump advocating for banning transgender individuals from serving in the military, dozens of community activists and local human rights organizations such as SAVE, Pridelines, Unity Coalition, Women’s March and Miami-Dade Young Republicans stood in solidarity Thursday, July 27, to defend transgender individuals’ rights to serve.