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Governor Crist and his campaign team reached out to Equality Florida several weeks ago to let us know of their intention to spell out the Governor's positions on federal LGBT issues and to get our input on the most important areas that should be addressed. The resulting official position statements are below. This is the furthest a sitting Florida Governor has ever gone in publicly supporting LGBT issues.Florida Governor Charlie Crist will be publicizing a comprehensive LGBT position paper this week.

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Today the Florida Supreme Court agreed to take Amendments 3, 7 and 9 off of the November ballot. The court also struck down a challenge from members of the legislature against Amendment 5 and Amendment 6- the fair district amendments promoted by FairDistrictsFlorida.org

In 2005 notorious anti-LGBT State Senator and then Hillsborough County Commissioner Rhonda Storms led a successful effort to ban county recognition of LGBT pride celebrations. This hateful policy was aimed at silencing our community and sending us back into the closet. But instead of feeling defeated and demoralized, our community rallied together with Equality Florida and marched through the streets of downtown Tampa over 5,000 strong.

Hours after sparking a firestorm with comments during a CNN interview, Florida Governor Charlie Crist says he does NOT support an amendment to the US Constitution that would ban marriage for gay couples.

TALLAHASSEE, FL – To celebrate the 90th anniversary of women’s right to vote, a coalition of statewide organizations have committed to getting out the vote this election year. August 26th, 2010, commemorates the 72 year struggle and the groundbreaking victory of women with the passage of the 19th Amendment.

Bill McCollum Still Paying for George Rekers In a stunning defeat, Bill McCollum lost the 2010 Florida Republican Primary by 3% despite having the full support of the Christian Family Council, Florida's Republican party establishment and prominent national Republican figures, including Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Tea Party leader Dick Armey. Why? Two words - George Rekers.

Pro-Equality Winners

Here's a quick email we just got from Joe Saunders, our Statewide Field Director.

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Dan Gelber, Equality Florida Action PAC endorsed candidate for Attorney General appears poised to clinch the Democratic nomin

NOTE: Brian Winfield, Equality Florida's Communications Director reached out to a number of Florida papers to take a stand on the McCollum/Foster Parent debacle. The Pensacola News Journal felt strongly enough about the issue that their Editorial Board ran a fantastic editorial, with a scathing cartoon. This is Pensacola folks, one of the most conservative bastions of Florida!

One day after stating that gay people should be banned from foster parenting, Bill McCollum tries to back away from his statements. This is the latest twist in the scandal involving McCollum giving $120,000 to discredited witness George Rekers who was later caught with a male escort he'd hired on rentboy.com as the pair returned from a European vacation.

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