It was 1973 and Mark Segal, was sitting in the CBS studios watching America’s most trusted newsman, Walter Cronkite, conduct the evening news live. A journalism student, Segal was given a pass into the tiny studio to learn more about broadcast — but he had much more planned that night.

When the “First Comes Love” Project began in March of 2009, the country had just inaugurated a fair-minded President, yet in the same election, Proposition 8, outlawing LGBTQ marriages in California, was passed. The Defense of Marriage Act was the law of the land. Now five years later, DOMA has been declared unconstitutional and Proposition 8 has been defeated…for good. But the work is not done. There are still many states in the USA where gay marriages are illegal and the relationships are not recognized. While the tide is rolling across the country to provide equal rights to all citizens, there remains a deep misunderstanding of the relationships in the LGBTQ community. New laws do not always change minds. Understanding is the only weapon to combat hatred, bigotry, violence, and bullying towards LGBTQ individuals and couples of all ages. This project serves to provide a new perspective on the issue and illuminate the real life stories of the couples involved by educating those outside of the LGBTQ community, while celebrating those who are a part.

The absence of six words in Jacksonville’s human rights ordinance gives business owners the right to refuse service to a gay man, allows a landlord to not rent to a transgender person, or give the freedom to a boss to fire his lesbian employee.

The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association (GALECA) recently announced its membership’s picks for their second “GALECA 10 Best” list: The 10 Best LGBTQ Films Every Straight Person Should See.

Ari Gold releases vibrant collection

Out filmmaker David DeCoteau has been directing movies for about 30 years. From “The Brotherhood”and “Voodoo Academy”series to the “666”and “1313”horror franchises, he has directed more than 100 pictures including the gay classic “Leather Jacket Love Story.” In the last 28 months, DeCoteau has shot 28 films.

They know the effects. They’ve seen the damage. And enough and is enough.

Do you know what Glutathione is?

A politician, an activist, a journalist, an author, a survivor.

On November 10 in San Francisco, Red Thread Productions will kick off their fall 2015 screening dates for the feature-length documentary, “The Last One: Unfolding The AIDS Memorial Quilt,” and released plans for a 2016 National Youth Outreach Campaign that will couple displays of the AIDS Memorial Quilt with screenings of the film.

First of all, I am writing this to the readers of SFGN, Hot Spots, and the Agenda in my capacity as the chairman of Pride of Greater Fort Lauderdale.

“Who doesn’t like talking about what they do for love?” asked Tony Award-winning costume designer William Ivey Long. “Of course, I’m paraphrasing Marvin Hamlisch.”

(CNN) — The man who played drums on the U.S.-released version of the Beatles’ song “Love Me Do” died this week, his wife told CNN.

It’s so incredibly significant that Time magazine has put a transgender person on their cover in June, calling their challenge the ‘next civil rights battle.’

Pastor Kevin Swanson needed some magic to end his National Religious Liberties Conference this past weekend, so he turned to Harry Potter.

Ben Schwarts is neither male nor female. The 23-year-old identifies as agender and uses the pronoun “they” instead of he or she.

Playwright Tony Finstrom is passionate about theater. Besides writing his own plays, he is an associate producer for Jan McArt’s New Play Reading Series at Lynn University, a judge for the regional Carbonell Awards, the organizer of the Theater League’s Silver Palm Awards and a patron of several local theater companies.

What’s harder than not belonging anywhere? Try belonging everywhere.

From the Book

In his new book, Kevin Clarke, bestselling author of Porn — from Andy Warhol to X-Tube, shows us beards from the gay perspective. In addition to his view on the clones of the 1970s and their recent return, there are interviews and facts about beards as well as photographs showing how erotic a man’s beard can be. From bestselling author Kevin Clarke Gay view on history of the beard Trend: The beard as an expression of the modern man

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LGBT Christians coming together to fight religious stereotypes

In this era of a rapidly spreading marriage equality movement, it seems that out proud LGBT people can now be found everywhere. This includes at unexpected places like comic book shops and on the pages of the comics themselves.

Two founders of the national movement are queer

WHAT? Gay people in the theater? Who knew? Here’s a few:

Some of the gay white way’s GAYEST musicals

With three world class performing arts center along a 75 mile stretch of I-95, South Florida regularly attracts the most popular touring productions, straight from Broadway. This season is no exception, with “Kinky Boots” coming to both Miami and Fort Lauderdale, and “Once” and “Newsies” rounding out the fall lineup at the Broward Center.

The way Matt May and Jennifer Sierra-Grobelaar finish each other’s sentences, you’d think they were an old married couple.

The 31-year-old passenger whose plunge from the cruise ship Oasis of the Seas was caught on cellphone videos had threatened to jump overboard seconds before he ran toward the balcony of his stateroom, investigators said Monday.