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 Eight-Year Effort to Protect Students Culminates In Fl Anti-Bullying Victory
Florida Becomes 36th State to Pass Anti-Bullying Law
(Tallahassee) After eight years of effort on the part of hundreds of students, parents, educators and civil rights groups, the Florida Safe Schools Coalition celebrates the passage today of a statewide anti-bullying bill.
During today’s unanimous vote, Senators zeroed in on the issue of whether the broad prohibition on bullying requires schools to address specific forms of harassment, including anti-gay bullying.
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Dispute stalls bill banning bias over sexual orientation
By Anthony Man | Sun-Sentinel
It looked like a big victory for gay and lesbian Floridians and their allies: A state Senate committee overwhelmingly approved legislation last week that would ban discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation. (more)
Equality Florida Executive Director Nadine Smith awarded 2008 Florida Humanist of the Year by Humanist of Florida
Nadine has been the executive director of Equality Florida since its inception in 1997. She has led advocacy efforts in Florida at the state level at a time of unprecedented attacks on the LGBT community, serving as Equality Florida’s lead lobbyist in Tallahassee and heading efforts to stop discriminatory legislation and ballot measures and to overturn Florida’s ban on adoption by gay and lesbian parents. Nadine has been recognized for her national and state leadership by organizations around the nation, including the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the Human Rights Campaign, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, the National Black Lesbian and Gay Leadership Forum and others. Nadine will receive the award at the 2008 Humanist of Florida Conference in May.
Gay-marriage debate -- not so gay for ban supporters
Mar 27, 2008 | by Scott Maxwell
If I had to make a prediction, the folks pushing for a gay-marriage ban will either change their techniques or simply stop trying to make their case in person before this campaign is over -- because their effort to do so today in Orlando fell pretty darn flat. (more)
Coalition Travels to Tallahassee to Educate Lawmakers on the
Harm of Florida’s Infamous Adoption Ban
Families Lobby for Legislation that Considers the Child’s Best Interest in Certain Adoption Cases
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| Adoption lobby team meets with Rep. Long (D - St. Petersburg) |
(TALLAHASSEE) Today, families, social workers, clergy members, and child advocates traveled to the Capitol to participate in the 3rd Annual Fair Adoption lobby Days, sponsored by the Coalition for Fair Adoption. Families from across the state called on the Florida Legislature to pass a bill that would allow children to be adopted by foster parents, regardless of sexual orientation. (more)
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