Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actress Sharon Gless will lead the Wilton Manors Stonewall Pride Parade as grand marshal on Saturday. She’s known for playing strong, determined women on television, stage and screen - her resume includes “Cagney & Lacey,” “Queer as Folk” and “Burn Notice”— but that’s also a role she has played offstage throughout her career. 

PRICE, Utah (AP) — April Hoagland and Beckie Peirce, a Utah couple who married last year, went to a routine hearing Tuesday expecting to hear an update on how long it would be before they could adopt the baby girl they'd been raising as foster parents for three months.

At last year’s Stonewall Parade and Festival, Progress Bar had one headliner. That wasn’t enough for this year.

Although the June 18 Stonewall festival is a public affair, organizers have left the entertainment to the private sector.

A celebration of life will be held for James Fahy, Wednesday, June 30 at 7:30 p.m. at United Church of Christ in Fort Lauderdale. 

More than 100 people attended the community prayer vigil at Sunshine Cathedral Sunday evening, hearing from community leaders and moving musical performances from singers and musicians.

(SS) After days in the center of a tornado-strength vortex of criticism for his initial, in-the-heat-of-the-moment description of a horrific car crash at the weekend LGBT Pride Parade, Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis says he regrets describing the incident as an act of terrorism, and said he’s apologized.

The beads, the parade, and all the Pride is back! After a year off due to the COVID crisis the Stonewall Pride Parade & Street Festival is back this weekend.

Whoosh. That’s what Nicholas Coppola vividly remembers as the truck barreled past him, after striking three pedestrians, and then careening across the road into a plant nursery.

There will not be competing gay pride events in Wilton Manors this year during June.

Friends and colleagues of James Fahy describe him as a kind, friendly man and a dedicated member of the Fort Lauderdale Gay Men’s Chorus (FTLGMC). 

Activists in Peru began protesting after the death of trans student Rodrigo Ventosilla, and the "world's first gay imam" provides a safe place for LGBT people in South Africa.

A father and daughter are suing the school district after being suspended over transphobic remarks in Vermont, and Catholic leaders are targeting trans students and gay parents in Colorado.

The return of Stonewall Pride Parade & Street Festival was split in two: before a tragic accident and after.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Less than a year after big business helped pressure Indiana Republicans to scale back their contentious new religious objections law, the state's powerful business lobby has decided that step wasn't enough.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis has lost another bid to delay issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

After taking a few days to process what occurred in Wilton Manors Entertainment District at the Stonewall Pride parade, I am writing to express my concern and opinion.

As a Wilton Manors LBGT resident homeowner, questions linger after my experience at the Stonewall Pride Parade and Festival on June 19.

Leadership during a tragedy involves making the right decisions after gathering your facts, remaining calm, and then leading the community to a safe place and toward healing.

South Florida’s LGBT community was sadly in the news last week after a 77-year-old man drove his truck into the crowd at Wilton Manors Stonewall parade, killing one and injuring another in a horrifying accident.

GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics recently announced the winners of their 14th annual Dorian TV awards, celebrating the best of both mainstream and queer programming on broadcast, cable and streaming platforms.

The 2022 school year is here and the “Don't Say Gay” law is in full effect.

A number of solutions have been proposed, but attacks continue and no arrests have been made

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UPDATED 11:02 p.m. June 20: A special agent with the FBI has confirmed to SFGN that they are assisting Fort Lauderdale Police Department, who is leading the investigation.

Stonewall isn’t until Saturday but there’s already a heavy police presence along Wilton Drive in case someone tries to copy the massacre that happened in Orlando Sunday.

People shouted, security was called, and school board members caved.

Declaring that he is hosting an “inclusive festival,” and that “I would not deny Donald Trump a place if he wanted one,” Stonewall Pride’s Executive Director, Jeff Sterling, is permitting the man who two years ago ran the Florida Agenda into a $12.7 million dollar bankruptcy to co-sponsor the VIP tent at this weekend’s festival.

All is well that ends well. Perhaps.

(SS) It’s an infinitesimally small percentage of our readers who can say they’ve seen someone run down by a vehicle just a few feet away, but Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis is now among them.

It’s been three years, 2019, since Wilton Manors hosted a “normal” Stonewall Pride event.