LGBT Issues

Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Fest: Movies That Go Beyond Coming Out

Daddy Yankee Comes Out as Gay Not Gay

There are few things manlier -- and in a woman's case, womanlier -- than stepping out of "the closet" and letting the world know you're gay. And you'd be an asshole not to respect someone with that kind of courage. But you'd be an even bigger culo to issue a bilingual press release refuting rumors ... More >>

Florida Group Predicts "Surge of Boy-on-Boy Sexual Conduct" If Gays Join Boy Scouts

John Stemberger is perhaps Florida's best-known homophobe. He was deeply involved in Florida's effort to ban gay marriage and runs the Florida Family Policy Council, a group that opposes just about any bit of legal protection for the LGBT community. Now he's decided to start a separate group solely ... More >>

Local Pastor: Ex-North Miami Mayor's "Homosexual Network" Out To Get Me

The gay mafia is after Jack Hakimian. The head of North Miami's Impact Miami church has made a name for himself by fighting a proposed strip club in the neighborhood -- a fight that found him allied with PBS affiliate WPBT. That alliance got WPBT in trouble with North Miami Councilman Scott Galvin, ... More >>

Frank Ocean Is Gay: A Ten-Point History of Coming Out in Music, From Bowie to Lance Bass

Odd Future crooner Frank Ocean recently opened up on Tumblr about falling in love with a man, and the blogosphere is buzzing with stories about gay Franky. But we're stuck on how modern this whole coming-out ceremony has become. Gays, bisexuals, and lesbians have been a big part of the music indust ... More >>

50 Cent on Gay Marriage: "I've Encouraged Same-Sex Activities ... I'm For It"

See also "Is 50 Cent Dying? Rapper Tweets Pictures from Hospital, Reaches out to Floyd Mayweather." Just one day after having his colon stretched at a New York City hospital, according to Media Takeout, 50 Cent is following in Jay-Z's footsteps and weighing in on President Obama's decision to back ... More >>

Save the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

Adulterer Newt Gingrich Hopes Bible Thumpers Help Him in Florida

Will Florida's Evangelical voters line up behind a thrice-divorced serial adulterer with, reportedly, a thing for open marriages? Newt Gingrich's campaign sure thinks so, and hopes that Mitt Romney's flip-floppy past on things like gay marriage and abortion seals the deal with values voter ... More >>

Pride Performed

Openly Gay Jesse Walters Wins Miami Shores Council Seat After Slurs Deface His Campaign Signs

​Jesse Walters has joined the small but growing ranks of openly gay elected officeholders in Miami-Dade. Walters edged out incumbent Prospero G. Herrera II in yesterday's election and joins the likes of North Miami councilman Scott Galvin and Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Gongora as an openly g ... More >>

Burger King Gay Bashing: "A Whopper of a Hate Crime"

The King, it appears, hates gay people. ​After what an advocate called "truly one of the worst cases of a hate crime to happen in the LGBT community," a New Jersey court awarded $3.15 million to 46-year-old Noel Robichaux and 43-year-old Peter Casbar. The gay couple entered a Un ... More >>

Florida is the 15th Most Tolerant State (But Still Hates Gays So Much)

​The Daily Beast will find any reason to make a listicle, so in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day they decided to rank the most tolerant states in America. Yes, I believe it was King who said, "I have a dream that someday people will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the results o ... More >>

Scott Sends Out Rekers Flyer Attacking McCollum, Fails to Properly Credit New Times

​With some polls showing Rick Scott now more than ten points behind Bill McCollum in the Republican primary, the billionaire candidate has decided to pull out all the stops in the final days before the election. He has sent out an ad attacking McCollum for hiring now-disgraced George Rekers to tes ... More >>

Bill McCollum: "I Really Do Not Think That We Should Have Homosexuals Guiding Our Children"

That Bill McCollum is a real piece of work. He finds himself, yet again, on the losing end of a statewide Republican primary, and now he has spoken with the Florida Baptist News and veered harder to the right on pretty much every social issue available. Not only does he not believe in gay ... More >>

McCollum: Rekers Was "The Best Expert"

​Surprise! Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum still opposes gay adoption -- notwithstanding the spectacular downfall of his hand-picked anti-gay expert, George Alan Rekers. "I don't believe the gay family model is good for kids," McCollum said this week to the ... More >>

Rick Scott Attacks Bill McCollum For Supporting "Pro-Abortion and Pro-Gay Rights" Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani in drag​When Bill McCollum ran in the 2004 Senate Primary, Republican opponent and eventual victor Mel Martinez sent out a campaign flyer calling him the "new darling of the homosexual extremists. Now insurgent billionaire candidate Rick Scott is attacking McCollum for supporting supposed ... More >>

Dems Ask Bill McCollum to Pay Back $120K He Paid to George Rekers

McCollum paid Rekers six figure to testify against gay adoption​The dominoes continue to fall after New Times exposed anti-gay activist and "researcher" Geroge Rekers's ten-day trip to Europe with a twinky, young male escort he met through RentBoy.com. The blow back has reached Attorney General Bi ... More >>

Further New Times Reading on the Ex-Gay Movement, NARTH

Illustration by Tatiana Suarez​You might be tired of us forcing more and more news on the George Alan Rekers story, but we feel this is a story that needs to be told. For one, it's about the hypocrisy of denying a group of people certain rights, while pretending to be someone you aren't. And it's ... More >>

Jackson Memorial Hospital Gets Gay-Friendly Visitation Policy, Joins the 21st Century

For years, Jackson Memorial Hospital has made US News & World Report's "Best Hospitals" list. But its reputation among gay people has been one of the worst in the country.  The reason is partly due to a court case filed by a lesbian named Janice Langbehn. In Fe ... More >>

Getting Back at the Orange Bitch

WSVN Anchor Reed Cowan's Documentary on Mormons and Prop 8 Will Get National Distribution

​You may know Reed Cowan from WSVN's weekend night news desk, but the openly gay anchor has been moonlighting as a filmmaker. After debuting at the Sundance Film Festival last month his latest documentary, 8: The Mormon Proposition, has been picked up for theatrical and DVD release.Narrated by Osc ... More >>

Sex and the City Creator to Direct Anita Bryant Biopic for HBO

​HBO is still at work on a fictional adaption of Cocaine Cowboys, but the cable giant's latest project takes on the life of another infamous villain from Miami-Dade's past: Anita Bryant. The beauty queen turned popular singer turned Florida OJ pitchwoman turned raving anti-gay activist will g ... More >>

Perez Hilton is So Not a Gay Role Model

Screw gay rights. Perez would like to advocate a national cupcake day. ​Bitchy celebrity blogger Perez Hilton made a name for himself drawing cocaine boogers on photos of movie stars. That, and spreading hateful -- ok, kind of hilarious --morsels of Hollywood gossip. So what the hell is he doi ... More >>

Florida Lawyer Thinks Homosexuals Want Kids Just So They Can Clean Soiled Sheets

​George L. Metcalfe is an Orlando-area lawyer who likes to spend his time writing about gays having sex with children. His first piece of pedophile fiction was somehow published in the Florida Bar News, but sadly George had to edit his creative masterpiece down to 350 words. Not content with ... More >>

Charles Perez Apparently Too Gay for WPLG's Taste

via JustNews.com​He's here, he's queer, but former weeknight anchor Charles Perez says WPLG doesn't want to get used to it. According to Herald columnist Steve Rothaus, the anchor has filed a complaint with Miami-Dade's Equality Opportunity Board. In the complaint, he says news director ... More >>

Why the Carol Rosenberg Situation Shouldn't Be Dismissed So Easily: Don't Ask, Don't Tell and Media Bias

Carol Rosenberg​As has been reported just about everywhere, U.S. Navy Commander Jeffrey D. Gordon sent a sexual harassment complaint to Miami Herald Executive Editor Anders Gyllenhaal about the behavior of the paper's Guantánamo Bay correspondent, Carol Rosenberg. Among using other choice wo ... More >>

City of Miami Unanimously Passes Domestic Partnership Ordinace

via Made Underground's FlickrToday, the City of Miami Commission took a tiny little step in the right direction towards equality by unanimously passing a Domestic Partnership Ordinance, 5-0. The new policy will only effect City employees by extending health care benefits to their same-sex ... More >>

Support Gay Pride: Eat, Drink and Be Merry

It’s Winter in Paradise

And the party people don’t need snow to make it so.

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Sean Penn stars in what was originally an Oliver Stone flick.

We Are All Prom Queens

The Kiss

A gay telenovela love triangle? ¡Sí!

He’s Gay!

Not that there’s anything wrong with that

Banned in Tampa

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Queer Adoption

Florida's ban on gays as adoptive foster parents is medieval

What a Difference a Bay Makes

On the Beach side gay life flourishes, but on the Miami side it's Anita Bryant déjà vu

Let Go This Lego

Rick and Steve have an awfully bad adventure

Ballroom Prancing

South Florida's burgeoning gay ballroom scene has attracted an army of cross-dressers and transsexuals, who compete for bragging rights as fashion divas

Letters

A New Kind of Old Heave-Ho

For one local gay Coast Guardsman, military justice was not an oxymoron

Light at the Edge of the World

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