Janelle Irwin TaylorJanuary 31, 2019
6min397
LPAC, Equality Florida PAC and LGBTQ Victory Fund all offered their support.
Tag: Equality FloridaMike Johnson. Image via AP.
Janelle Irwin TaylorJanuary 31, 2019
Jacob OglesJanuary 28, 2019
7min585
Suggesting gay people be protected from termination goes too far, he says.
Jacob OglesJanuary 24, 2019
5min811
His bill takes a more modest approach than ones filed by Democrats this week.
Jacob OglesJanuary 23, 2019
6min865
Florida's first openly lesbian lawmaker believes this is the year for LGBTQ protections.
Staff ReportsJanuary 18, 2019
4min3303
Fried says she won't "tolerate discrimination ... on any basis"
Jacob OglesJanuary 9, 2019
6min623
Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation validating same-sex marriage in Florida, the same day equality advocates criticized Gov. Ron DeSantis for failing to address LGBTQ rights in a new non-discrimination order. The oversight added urgency to legislation formally repealing Florida’s Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a 1997 statute declaring Florida only recognizes marriage between a man and a woman. […]
Danny McAuliffeNovember 13, 2018
5min609
Online retail giant Amazon won’t be setting up its new headquarters in any Florida city. Why? Equality Florida is pointing to the absence of statewide non-discrimination policies for the LGBTQ community. Under current state law, it’s still legal to discriminate against LGBT individuals in employment, housing and public accommodations. Statewide civil rights protections — provided […]
Jacob OglesNovember 7, 2018
3min858
Sarah Fortney, an incoming Polk County School Board member, will become Florida’s first openly lesbian member of a Florida school district. Joe Saunders of Equality Florida Action PAC celebrated Fortney’s win in a statement. “Sarah has made history as the first out lesbian elected to a School Board in the State of Florida,” said Saunders, one of […]
Guest AuthorOctober 31, 2018
6min539
At a time of renewed political attacks on LGBT Americans, the pro-equality vote — the ‘Rainbow Wave’ — may prove decisive in Florida’s midterm election. Candidates ignore this growing voting bloc at their peril. Equality Florida has invested deeply in connecting with voters for whom LGBT rights are the motivating issue. We have identified 1.3 […]
Jacob OglesSeptember 29, 2018
9min404
When the Florida Democratic Party turned to Sarasota City Commissioner Shelli Freeland Eddie as a surrogate, it left some activists on the Gulf Coast angry based a years-long strain with the city official over gay rights. On Sept. 20, Eddie led a protest outside a Ron DeSantis rally, where the Florida Democratic Party billed her […]