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It's over! Moments ago, Department of Children & Families' (DCF) Director, George Sheldon, announced that the agency will not appeal last month's court ruling which struck down Florida's ban on gay and lesbian adoption as "unconstitutional." It is now legal for gay and lesbian parents to adopt children everywhere in the state of Florida.

Quinnipiac just released a poll that shows the governor's race in a statistical dead heat. The poll, taken from Oct. 6-10 showed Alex Sink with 44 percent of support from likely voters with Rick Scott showing 45 percent.

On the eve of National Coming Out Day, Equality Florida was at Orlando's Come Out with Pride, celebrating a FABULOUS year!

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Thanks to your help, Dan Gelber cleared the primary election and is now running against Pam Bondi to become Florida's next Attorney General. It is critical we have an Attorney General who fights for fairness and equality, not spend tax payer money on bigotry. On Oct. 21, Equality Florida is hosting a fundraiser in Ft. Lauderdale to support Dan Gelber for Attorney General. Watch the video below to learn more about him, and then come meet him in person. Together we can support Dan and push him over the finish line on election day!

Note: During the 2008 Amendment 2 campaign, Equality Florida partnered with the NoOn2 Campaign to invest in an outside polling service. The results of that research revealed 77% of Floridians believed same-gender couples deserved at least some legal protections, whether through domestic partnership, civil unions, or full marriage equality. The following Pew Research poll reveals that Americans' attitudes are changing significantly in the direction of full Marriage Equality.

Great work by Team Jacksonville. Check out this radio interview with Jax Committee for Equality in support of updating the JAX Human Rights Ordinance to include sexual orientation and gender identity. Dawn Ozanne and Jimmy Midyette from JimmyMidyette on Vimeo.

IN THE LIFE travels to Florida to speak with Martin Gill, a foster father whose case is challenging Florida's ban on gay adoptions, meet with openly gay Mayor Craig Lowe, and learn about the struggle toward legislative equality in the Sunshine State. Featured: Attorney Elizabeth Schwartz, Equality Florida Executive Director Nadine Smith, the ACLU’s Howard Simon and writers Penn Bullock and Brandon K. Thorp.

Equality Florida's endorsed candidates were hugely successful in the primaries because of the time you put in making calls, entering data and knocking on doors with us. We need your help to get them across the finish line. Here's just a few of the reasons we need you on our general election team: -We can elect Florida's first pro-equality Governor. -We can elect a long time outspoken supporter of LGBT equality to the Attorney General's office.

Great news! By a unanimous decision, an appeals court has upheld a Miami judge who ruled that Florida's anti-gay adoption ban is unconstitutional.

This morning the Third District Court of Appeals in Miami, FL upheld a lower court ruling that declared Florida's ban on gay and lesbian adoption to be unconstitutional.

Call the Senate NOW: 1-202-224-3121"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Must End This Year

Sunday night we posted a position statement on LGBT issues from Gov. Christ covering a wide range of topics, including: calling for an end to Don't Ask Don't Tell, passage of the Uniting American Families Act and an end to anti-gay adoption laws, among others. Today, in a story from the Palm Beach Post, Gov. Christ states that he's had a change of heart about Florida's horrible law banning gays and lesbians from adopting.

(TALLAHASSEE) Candidates in the most watched U.S. Senate race in the country have made equal rights for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community a centerpiece of their campaigns this week. Governor Charlie Crist released an LGBT Issue Statement covering a wide range of topics, including: calling for an end to Don't Ask Don't Tell, passage of the Uniting American Families Act and an end to anti-gay adoption laws, among others. Crist statement is the most comperehensive pro-LGBT equality stand of a sitting governor in Florida's history.