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Defying DeSantis: Communities Show Their Rainbows as State Threatens Cities
Equality Florida's Nadine Smith condemned DeSantis and the Florida Department of Transportation for threatening to withhold emergency relief funding from cities unless they remove street art including rainbow crosswalks, urging communities to respond with defiant displays of visibility.
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Equality Florida Condemns DeSantis for Defacing Pulse Memorial; Calls on Floridians to #ShowYourRainbow in Response
Equality Florida condemned Governor DeSantis for ordering part of the Orlando Pulse memorial painted over, calling it an attempt to erase LGBTQ history, and urged Floridians to gather at the site and display rainbows using #ShowYourRainbow.
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Stand With Parents and Families Who Want Great Teachers, Safe Classrooms, and Kids Who Feel Valued
Equality Florida is rallying parents to sign a letter of support for teachers and LGBTQ students after Governor DeSantis and the Florida Department of Education sent a back-to-school letter urging parents to monitor and report teachers.
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Equality Florida Awarded $22,000 Grant from the Community Foundation of Sarasota County to Expand LGBTQ Youth Mental Health Services
Equality Florida received a $22,000 grant from the Community Foundation of Sarasota County to expand LGBTQ youth mental health services, funding a new cohort of practitioners trained in AFFIRM Youth, an evidence-based intervention serving Sarasota, Manatee, Charlotte, and DeSoto counties.
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Civil Rights and Parents Groups Denounce Effort to Erode Local Protections in Sarasota Public Schools
A coalition including the NAACP, Florida PTA, SPLC, and Equality Florida urged Sarasota County Public Schools to reject proposals stripping express enumeration from anti-discrimination and anti-bullying policies, calling it a capitulation to vague, nonbinding Trump administration anti-DEI guidance.
Civil Rights Nondiscrimination Parenting
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Equality Florida’s Response to AG Uthmeier Press Conference on Transgender Athletes
Equality Florida responded to Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier's press conference on transgender athletes, accusing him of scapegoating transgender people to deflect from scrutiny over the Everglades detention camp contracts and Hope Florida funding allegations.
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Resistance Report: Federal Edition (July)
Equality Florida's July Federal Resistance Report covers the Supreme Court's Skrmetti decision upholding Tennessee's transgender youth healthcare ban, the Braidwood ruling preserving no-cost preventive care including HIV prevention, and DeSantis's threats to rainbow crosswalks.
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2025 Tracking Federal Developments
Equality Florida's federal developments tracker, updated July 7, 2025, monitors Trump administration actions against LGBTQ Americans, including the executive order redefining sex and litigation such as Orr v. Trump over transgender passport policy.
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The Supreme Court Sided with Politicians — We Stand with Trans Youth and Their Families
Equality Florida responded to the U.S. Supreme Court upholding Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, calling it cruel but noting it has no immediate impact on Florida, whose similar law remains under review by the 11th Circuit.
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Resistance Report Week 9: Every Anti-LGBTQ Bill Is Defeated!
Equality Florida's week nine Resistance Report celebrates a clean sweep defeating every anti-LGBTQ bill filed in the 2025 session, noting no anti-LGBTQ bill moved in the Florida House and the Pride Flag Ban died after Senator Randy Fine resigned.
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