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An Open Letter Rejecting White Supremacy and Hate Violence
Equality Florida and the Foundation for a Healthy St. Petersburg have released a letter, joined by several local leaders and hundreds of people, condemning white supremacy and hate violence. 
Activism
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Equality Florida Action PAC Makes Its First Clerk of Court Endorsement Ever, Jimmy Midyette
Equality Florida Action PAC made the first clerk of court endorsement in its history, backing Jimmy Midyette in Duval County over Jody Phillips, who would continue keeping the courthouse chapel closed to bar same-sex couples from marrying there.
Equality Florida Voting
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Equality Florida Hires Largest Statewide LGBTQ Election Team in US
Equality Florida announced the largest statewide LGBTQ election team in the U.S., growing its staff to 16 as it worked to mobilize over 560,000 pro-equality voters in Florida for the 2020 election cycle.
Equality Florida LGBTQ
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Jason Brodeur’s Anti-LGBTQ Record Prompts Florida’s Largest LGBTQ PAC To Set the Record Straight with $125,000 Ad Campaign
Equality Florida Action PAC announced an unprecedented $125,000 ad campaign to remind 130,000 Florida Senate District 9 voters of candidate Jason Brodeur's record sponsoring a 2015 bill that would have let state-funded adoption agencies discriminate against gay and lesbian couples.
LGBTQ
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Florida Advisory Committee to the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights Releases Advisory Memorandum: Voting Rights and Voter Disenfranchisement in Florida
The Florida Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, chaired by Nadine Smith, released an advisory memorandum on voting rights, flagging concerns including voter roll purges, early voting limits, and signature-mismatch ballot rejections.
Voting
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Equality Florida, Step Up For Students partner to expand culture of inclusion for LGBTQ students
Equality Florida partnered with Step Up For Students to expand its Safe and Healthy Schools LGBTQ awareness training to private schools serving scholarship students, seeded by $1 million Step Up raised for the multi-year program.
Equality Florida LGBTQ
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Equality Florida Action, Inc. Endorses Joe Biden For President
Equality Florida Action, Inc. made the first federal endorsement in its 23-year history, backing Joe Biden for president, citing the threat posed by the Trump administration and a potential Supreme Court nomination endangering LGBTQ civil rights.
Equality Florida
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Position Statement on HIV and COVID-19 Sign-On by Florida Organizations
Florida organizations led by people living with HIV signed a position statement urging state policymakers to protect direct services and prevention efforts for the roughly 120,000 Floridians living with HIV as COVID-19 strained the healthcare system.
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Transgender Americans Are Being Murdered. Does Anyone Care?
An Equality Florida blog examined the ongoing epidemic of murders of transgender Americans, especially Black trans women, highlighting Florida cases such as Bee Love Slater and the persistent deadnaming and misgendering by law enforcement that impedes investigations.
Transgender
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Historic Night for Black LGBTQ Candidates in Florida
Equality Florida celebrated history-making 2020 primary wins by Black LGBTQ candidates Shevrin Jones and Michele Rayner and the defeat of anti-LGBTQ incumbents including Rep. Mike Hill, Rep. Kimberly Daniels, and Rep. Al Jacquet.
LGBTQ Voting