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Transgenders do need protection laws
October 3, 2007
"We don't serve your kind here, get out." "I don't rent to people like you." "Don't even bother applying, your type isn't welcome here." What would you do if you heard these words. Call a lawyer? Call the newspaper? Fight back? Not if you happen to be transgender, like me, because in many places that type of discrimination is completely legal. Really. (more)

Marriage amendment discriminates
September 29, 2007
Floridians are currently witness to the time-honored but hardly honorable practice of creating the illusion of a crisis where there isn't one. Don't fall for the ruse. (more)

Equality Florida Member Challenges Bigotry During Far-Right Summit
September 24, 2007
Cathy James - mother of a seven-year-old, founder of Securing Our Children's Rights (SOCR) and longtime member of Equality Florida - not only attended the Family Impact Summit, but she also spoke out to challenged the bigotry being espoused. In so doing, she left a group of anti-gay panelists "speechless." Read the Box Turtle Bulletin article here.

Florida's proposed same-sex marriage ban threatens everyone's protections
September 23, 2007
When misguided religious and political groups attempt to deny gays legal rights under the guise of protecting marriage, you better watch out for your own rights. (more)

COMMUNITY RESPONDS TO HATE SUMMIT IN BRANDON
September 21, 2007 (BRANDON)
Equality Florida, along with a coalition of faith groups, social justice organizations and community leaders, today hosted a press conference and vigil-style protest to express the community’s outrage over an anti-gay summit being hosted by Bell Shoals Church and attracting leaders of the nation’s anti-gay industry.

The summit, disguised as a family-friendly conference, included seminars such as “Homosexuality and Youth” and the “Homosexual Agenda.”

“These extremists have gotten very good at putting a kinder, gentler veneer on the same old discredited, dehumanizing and dangerous message,” said Nadine Smith, Executive Director of Equality Florida. “As a community we can never allow the lies to go unchallenged. The discrimination they advocate, the animosity toward gay people they cultivate will impact the Florida long after they’ve gone back to their own states.”

Last year, Bell Shoals led a failed but disruptive and mean-spirited campaign to shut down the Hillsborough Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs). They were also strong backers of former County Commissioner Ronda Storms, who infamously led the passage of a policy banning county agencies from recognizing gay pride.

San Diego Mayor Supports Gay Marriage
September 19, 2007
San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders expressed his support for same-sex marriage, after revealing his daughter is gay. View the video

We need your help to demonstrate Florida's outrage at the damage sure to be done by hate mongers.
September 19, 2007
Tomorrow, a virtual "who's who" of anti-LGBT industry leaders will descend on the Tampa Bay area for an anti-gay summit deceptively disguised as a family-friendly conference. (more)

Activists decry 'slap-on-the-wrist' sentence for basher in W. Palm Teen gets 18 weeks probation for bloody attack on transgendered woman
September 13, 2007
An 18-week probation sentence against a teenager who bashed a 39-year-old pre-operative transgendered woman in West Palm Beach was denounced this week by Florida's leading GLBT human rights organization and a slew of concerned bloggers. (read more)

Basher Get Probation in West Palm Beach Attack
September 7, 2007
(West Palm Beach) Equality Florida today condemned the “slap on the wrist” sentence given to an 18 year old who viciously beat a transgender women last year. (read more)

Time to give transgenders rights, not ridicule
South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com | August 5, 2007
Last summer, when my cholesterol count came back high, my wife signed me up with a personal trainer. "You'll like him," she said. "He's got an interesting story." (read more)

Hate-crimes bill punishes violent acts
Fort Myers News Press EDITORIAL | August 2, 2007
Efforts to demonize a proposed hate-crimes law in Congress are at best naive and at worst dishonest. (read more)

If you have news or events that you would like to see Equality Florida cover in the pages of Equality News or on this Web site, please send your comments and suggestions to brian@eqfl.org or call / write:

Brian Winfield
Communications Director
EQUALITY FLORIDA
PO Box 13184 • St. Petersburg, FL • 33733
727-490-0959
Brian@EQFL.org

 

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