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Coast-To-Coast for Equality: National Campaign Rallies Support for Florida, the Frontline in the Fight Against Anti-LGBTQ Legislation
Equality California, the Los Angeles LGBT Center, and Equality Florida launched the Coast-To-Coast for Equality campaign, a cross-country alliance to share resources and fight anti-LGBTQ attacks, boosted by a $50,000 matching challenge from the Anita May Rosenstein Foundation.
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Your Final Resistance Report for 2024: We’re Turning The Tide
Equality Florida's final 2024 Resistance Report celebrates stopping or neutralizing 21 of 22 extreme anti-LGBTQ bills and passing the pro-LGBTQ PEP Access bill, framing the session as a major blow to DeSantis's culture war agenda.
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Resistance Report Week 6: Keeping the Pressure On
Equality Florida's week six Resistance Report notes sustained advocacy has stalled some of the session's worst bills, naming Rep. Michele Rayner a winner for the Freedom to Learn Act and Rep. Tiffany Esposito a loser for the Preemption of Employment Protections Bill.
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EQUALITY FLORIDA TO HONOR FRED P. HOCHBERG AT 2024 MIAMI CELEBRATION
Equality Florida announced it will honor Fred P. Hochberg, the first openly gay man to lead a U.S. federal agency, at its 2024 Miami Celebration at the Rusty Pelican in Key Biscayne on March 16.
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Resistance Report Week 5: Victory on the Frontlines
Equality Florida's week five Resistance Report celebrates the Pride Flag Ban Bill being stopped in the Florida Senate, support for the abortion ballot amendment at the state Supreme Court, and grassroots DMV protests over the transgender license policy.
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Equality Florida’s Response To Pride Flag Ban Bill Stalling In Florida Senate
Equality Florida hailed the stalling of a Florida Senate bill to ban the rainbow flag as a significant victory, noting that the bill's chief supporter, John Labriola of the Christian Family Coalition, likened LGBTQ Floridians to demons during the committee hearing.
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Resistance Report Week 4: An Unprecedented Attack
Equality Florida's week four Resistance Report details the DeSantis administration's memo rescinding transgender residents' ability to update license gender markers, a virtual town hall with Southern Legal Counsel, and names Rep. Gallop Franklin a winner and Rep. Doug Bankson a loser.
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Equality Florida Condemns New DeSantis Administration Policy Denying Legal Recognition, Accurate Driver Licenses/Identification for Transgender Floridians
Equality Florida's Nadine Smith condemned a new Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles memo rescinding the policy that let transgender residents update gender markers on driver's licenses and IDs, calling it a cruel attack that threatens civil and criminal penalties.
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Resistance Report Week 3: Bad Bills Are Moving
Equality Florida's week three Resistance Report covers the Florida Board of Governors' approval of rules dismantling university diversity programs and removing sociology as a core course, plus moving anti-LGBTQ bills, naming Reps. Bartleman and Woodson winners and DeSantis the loser.
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FL Board of Governors Pass Unprecedented Rules That Impose Unconstitutional Censorship and Strip Academic Freedom
Equality Florida's Carlos Guillermo Smith condemned the Florida Board of Governors for passing rules that abolish diversity and inclusion programs at state universities and eliminate sociology as a core course, calling them unconstitutional censorship that strips academic freedom.