(SS) Students at Western High School in Davie joined high schools around the state in protesting Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill on Friday, holding what was meant to be a peaceful walkout.

In 2011 Michael Musto wrote a column for The Village Voice called "Why I Hate Being Gay.” At the time I thought it was tongue and cheek. Perhaps not. It made me stop and think.

This is a great country. From the time you are a toddler they tell you that you “can be anything you want to be” regardless. And it is true. After all, George W. Bush became president and Vanna White has been turning letters on Wheel of Fortune since 1982. I guess Ms. Pam Bondi’s dream was to become Florida Attorney General regardless of her IQ and her haphazard interpretation of the law or the incoherence of her dumb decisions.

A couple of months ago I went to the Newseum in Washington D.C. It is an interactive museum of news and journalism featuring 15 theatres and 14 galleries on six levels. Its mission is "to help the public and the news media understand one another better" and to "raise public awareness of the important role of a free press in a democratic society.”

Dear Farook,

Hey how does it feel to be totally betrayed and cheated and so far off base?

It is a pleasure to celebrate with you SFGN’s Fifth Anniversary. How did it all start? In the late summer of 2009 I had some legal matters to discuss with my attorney, Norm Kent. That day, in his office, he told me he was considering starting a gay newspaper. I have always been militant and the idea appealed to me. According to him he needed four partners. I offered to be one of the four.

Life is a Russian roulette. A game of chance. Or so I thought. I am now convinced the rules have changed and we are playing Russian roulette with a fully loaded gun. On a daily basis we witness acts of pure folly.

I was dreading the arrival of the circus. The thought of having to listen for months on end to a score of shallow Presidential Hopefuls made me shudder. Fortunately somebody is throwing a much-needed monkey wrench into the process.

In what could be a watershed moment of global proportions a court has agreed to hear China’s first same-sex marriage case. Homosexuality is not illegal in China but same-sex couples have no legal protection. The country itself is becoming more tolerant of homosexuality, which until 2001 was listed as a mental disorder and considered “spiritual pollution.”

This past week the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the ban on providing a doctor-assisted death. The groundbreaking decision from the country's top court sweeps away the existing law and gives Parliament a year to draft new legislation that recognizes the right of clearly consenting adults who are enduring intolerable irremediable suffering — physical or mental — to seek medical help ending their lives.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;I thought that it would last for ever: I was wrong.(Stop the Clocks by W.H. Auden)

In June of 1970, the nation's first gay parade commemorated the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall riots – the nearly week-long uprising between New York City youth and police officers following a raid of Stonewall Inn.

As a recovering "cathaolic" and more precisely as a proud practicing atheist, I find myself in uncharted territory. I despise organized religions. Everywhere you turn somebody is killing, bombing, terrorizing in the name of God. A god, whose existence has never been proven, and most importantly nowadays, does not have a Facebook page or a Twitter account.

Here we go again.

Monica Lewinsky is back in the news. Is it possible we cannot swat this annoying fly?

The greatest single contribution made by Facebook to society is an unintended byproduct of the ubiquitous social media platform. By having a Facebook Page you can no longer hide in the closet. The process of "coming out" is a thing of the past.

Despite his views on the LGBT community and same-sex marriage, GOP presidential hopeful Dr. Ben Carson suggested during the latest Republican debate Wednesday that he isn't anti-gay, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender stories of the week.

Adelaide United (AUSTRALIA) soccer player Josh Cavallo has come out as gay, becoming the only current top-flight male professional footballer in the world to do so.

Masks are very simple objects. It is usually a cloth with two stretchy bands at two ends.

Read about Black LGBT men and women who made a name of themselves in history to honor during Black History Month.

Josephine Baker (1906 –1975) was an African-American dancer, singer, and actress who came to be known in various circles as the "Black Pearl," "Bronze Venus" and even the "Creole Goddess.”

The last administration has almost destroyed our democracy, damaged our justice system and polarized the country like no other before.  

The idea of a direct route across the Isthmus of Suez was considered a fantasy until the 19th century.

In 1922, after the Irish War of Independence and the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the larger part of Ireland seceded from the United Kingdom to become the independent Irish Free State; and after the 1937 constitution, Ireland.

Italy in the late ‘60s was a 99.9% white insular Catholic country, the  only exposure to Black people was limited to a few Black soccer players peppering the richest teams in the league.

Musical Theater Queens (noun, plural): Gay men enlightened enough to realize that stage musicals are the be-all and end-all, the ultimate cultural flowering of the human race.

For decades, anti-gay organizations and their supporters have portrayed the LGBT community as child molesters, diseased, sexually aggressive miscreants whose aim is to bring about the end of democracy or civilization before being sent to the lower rings of Dante's Inferno for our supposed sins.

There hasn’t been a lot of great news lately around the coronavirus. New infections are skyrocketing everywhere, and unfortunately, deaths from COVID-19 are following. Don’t let down your guard. 

Reinaldo Arenas, (born July 16, 1943, Oriente, Cuba — died Dec. 7, 1990, N.Y., U.S.), was a Cuban-born writer of extraordinary and unconventional novels who fled persecution and immigrated to the United States.

Lucilla Boari is an Italian recurve archer who has represented Italy at the 2016 Summer Olympics and at the 2020 Summer Olympics where she won bronze, engaged to Sanne de Laat.