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Gay Marriage Amendment Debate Gets Noisy

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Homophobe Media Whizzes Not Doing So Great

The Homophobe Amendment Will Leave Pie In All Our Faces

Amendment 2 Battle May Get Florida Election Commission Involved

Florida Voters Favor Civil Unions, But Want to Ban Them Anyway

Cyber Attacks on Say No 2 Website

Bill Clinton Makes Last-Minute Push Against Amendment 2

All the Gay-Lovers in Tallahassee Were Re-Elected

Top Ten Miami News Stories of the Year

Murder trials, drug busts, hurricane warnings and robberies may continue to grab the "If It Bleeds, It Leads"-headlines but 2008 was a year of events that will continue to affect us well past the changing of the calendar year. Riptide counts down the biggest new stories of 2008. 10. Murder Free ... More >>

Floridians Favor Some Sort of Legal Recognition for Gay Couples, Despite Banning Marriage in the Constitution

It was pretty evident to anyone with basic reading comprehension skills that the part of Amendment 2 that read, "no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized," would ban civil unions in the Florida Constitution. Florida voters pa ... More >>

Famous Numbers Person Predicts Florida Could Have Gay Marriage by 2013

Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com correctly predicted the outcome of the presidential election, and because of that, he can find the answer to everything with a few clicks of his calculator. Except for the Oscars; he sure got those wrong. Sorry, Mickey. Now Silver is trying to predict the years whe ... More >>

Letters from the Issue of December 11, 2008

"Anyone who lays out $6 million for a South Beach condo must be smoking some good stuff."

Letters from the Issue of November 20, 2008

"I would never tell them to their face that I voted yes on Amendment 2 in Florida to avoid the inevitable fallout."

Is Pink the New Black?

Debate over the rights of gays to marry resonates with the rhetoric of the civil rights movement

Wedding Trasher

A store owner is too Christian to serve a gay couple

Cho Tell Everybody

A store owner is too Christian to serve a gay couple

Judge Not

Leslie Rothenberg wasn't fit for the bench once before, and she's not fit now

Miami's Blessed Airwaves

To learn more about Bush's victory, tune to 89.7 FM

Trouble at Home

Note to Miami's Kerry boosters: All politics is local

Carlos Alvarez's Sexual Problem

The mayoral candidate's bilingual campaign has a message that doesn't translate

The Great Liberal Hope

Howard Dean is aiming for the White House, but first it's Miami Beach

Pollsters Are Down with Gay Marriage, Florida Is Down with Old People

Florida is behind the times when it comes to gay rights, (Remember Amendment 2? And that whole adoption thing?) But at least the rest of the country is catching on. Back in 2004, New York Times/CBS conducted a poll in which they asked people, "Do you support gay marriage?" Only 22 percent of respon ... More >>

Elaine Lancaster to Perez Hilton: "Leave Miss California Alone!"

Queen fight! Attention, everyone, Queen fight! No, seriously: It's South Beach's reigning queen versus the self-proclaimed "Queen of All Media" fighting over a beauty queen. Miami's premier drag queen and local paragon of sophistication and elegance, Elaine Lancaster, took to Steve Rothaus's  ... More >>

Gay Rights Leader Announced as Chair of McCollum Finance Committee; also includes Huizenga, Braman and Fanjul

The Buzz has the full list of members on the Bill McCollum for governor finance committee. It is a massive thing full of the state's top Republican business men, lawyers, lobbyists and other assorted movers and shakers. Then again, what do you expect on a finance committee? Though, you might no ... 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 >>

Architects of Gay Marriage Ban Need Money To Defend Florida from Evils of John & Kate

Once apon a time Jon & Kate Gosselin were folk heros in the pro-life movement for refusing to selectively reduce a few embryos after Kates invitro fertilization resulted in six fertilized eggs. Instead they chose to take their chances with having sextuplets, which t ... More >>

LeMieux Is the New Darling of the Homosexual Extremists

I didn't want to put up another pix of LeMieux's face, so in its place is the greatest picture of all time. ​Remember when Mel Martinez deemed his primary opponent Bill McCollum as the "new darling of the homosexual extremists?" Well, now he's being replaced by the new new darling of the homosexua ... More >>

Latin America Now Officially More Progressive on Gay Marriage than Florida

Latin America celebrated it's first official gay marriage yesterday, as two gay rights activists tied the knot in Argentina thanks to a legal loophole. Argentina's constitution doesn't specifically define marriage between a man and a woman, effectively leaving the interpretation up to local official ... More >>

George Rekers Has Company: The Top Ten Outed Right-Wing Homophobes

George Alan Rekers, latest in a long line of closeted homophobes.Unless you've spent the last 48 hours holed up in a French B&B humping the homosexuality right out of your rent-a-boy, you've probably heard about Miami New Times' exposé of gay-bashing evangelist George Alan Rekers' European trys ... More >>

A Man Who Became a Woman Who Can't Marry a Man is Running for Congress

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke tries to understand how a transsexual running for Congress can be against gay marriage.​A few weeks ago, I came across som ... More >>

Donna Milo: Sex-changed and bound for Congress

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke tries to understand how a transsexual running for Congress can be against gay marriage.​A few weeks ago, I came across som ... More >>

Wives Throwing Knives

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke tries to understand how a transsexual running for Congress can be against gay marriage.​A few weeks ago, I came across som ... More >>

Argentina Becomes First Latin American Country to Approve Gay Marriage

​After a heated debate that lasted until 4 a.m. in the morning, Argentina is set to become the first country in Latin America to recognize same-sex marriage. The Senate approved the measure following the foot steps of the lower house, and President Cristina Fernandez is certain to sign the measure ... More >>

What in Hell Is Charlie Crist Trying to Say About Gay Marriage?

​We're of two theories about Charlie Crist's latest string of "clarifications" (or flip-flops) on some positions: (1) The guy doesn't know what he actually believes and is being as vague as possible to attract as many voters as possible. (2) He has always personally held these positions, altered t ... 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 >>

Luther Campbell Gets Perfect Marks on Gay Voters Guide, Robaina and Gimenez Don't

​It's 2011, and the only candidate running for Miami-Dade mayor who is polling in the double digits to get perfect marks from Equality Florida's voting guide on GLBT issues happens to be former-2 Live Crew leader Luther Campbell. It's odd indeed. The leading candidates Julio Robaina and Carlos Gim ... More >>

Hawaii's Governor Will Gladly Send Pro Bowl Packing Back to Miami

​Except for the 2009 edition, the NFL's Pro Bowl has been held in Honolulu, Hawaii since 1979, but the state's new governor is sick of spending $4 million to secure the relationship every year. In a blistering attack on the NFL, Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie suggested it could take its Pro Bowl ... More >>

Julio Robaina Picks Up Endorsement for Anti-Gay Marriage, Anti-Choice, and Anti-Art Views

​Social issues have not been a driving force in local Miami-Dade politics for some time, with most voters more concerned with pressing issues like property taxes and budget problems. Today, however, the Christian Family Coalition of South Florida injected a big dose of social conservatism into the ... More >>

Julio Robaina's Continually Conflicting Statements on Gay Rights is a Sick Sign of Desperation

​Up in New York State they've finally passed a bill legalizing same sex marriage. Meanwhile, down in Miami-Dade we've got a mayoral candidate who can't even decided if he's for or against domestic partnership laws and seems to have wildly flip-flopped between stances. Julio Robaina says he bel ... More >>

53 Percent of Floridians Still Think Gay Marriage Should Be Illegal

In its seemingly random sports poll released today, Public Policy Polling did sneak in a few poll questions about actual public policy. Though a majority of Americans now support gay marriage, Floridians aren't quite ready for it. Though, they do, by a large majority, support civil unions for s ... More >>

Miami Shores Adopts Domestic Partnerships: Sixth Government in Miami-Dade to Do So

​Just months after Miami Shores residents elected their first openly gay councilman, village council has unanimously voted to offer domestic partnership benefits to its gay employees. Miami Shores is now the sixth municipal government in Miami-Dade to offer such benefits, following Miami, Miami Be ... More >>

Florida Doesn't Want Gay Marriage, But It Still Wants Gay Honeymoon Money

​Florida has constitutionally banned its gay wedding cake and is trying to eat it, too.Gay couples in New York began exercising their right to marry this weekend. New York is the largest state so far to legalize gay marriage (permanently, at least), and Florida tourism boards are trying to make su ... More >>

Al Cardenas' Wife: Homosexuals "Threaten the Moral Fiber of Our Society"

​Al Cardenas, the Miami mega-lobbyist and lawyer who once headed the Republican Party of Florida and now head of the influential American Conservative Union, has exercised his right to be married to a woman named Diana for the past 32 years. Though, it seems Diana is dead set against extending the ... More >>

Rick Perry Gets Endorsement of Florida's Top Anti-Gay Crusader Because Mitt Romney "Wasn't Mormon Enough"

John Stemberger, the top dog of Florida's religious right and the man who spearheaded the amendment that banned gay marriage and civil unions in Florida, has officially endorsed Texas Gov. Rick Perry in the presidential nomination. Though Stemberger is chummy with Michele Bachman ... More >>

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Becomes First and Only Republican to Back the Repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act

​Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is boldly breaking away from the rest of the Republican party to become the first and likely only Republican to co-sponsor a bill that would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. Ros-Lehtinen, currently the most senior female Republican member of the house and chairwoman of ... More >>

Crazy Anti-Gay Group Targets Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

​The National Organization for Marriage, the sometimes fumbling and controversial anti-gay marriage group, is targeting Miami-area Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in its latest publicity stunt. Last week, Ros-Lehtinen became the first and so far only Republican to sponsor a bill that ... More >>

Lesbian Couple Denied Name Change Because Their Marriage "Means Nothing to the State of Florida"

via WTSP The Lambert-Jolleys​As Florida residents, Rachel and Charlotte Lambert-Jolley knew that their marriage in Connecticut, where same sex weddings are legal, wouldn't be recognized in their own home state. They at least hoped, however, that it would help expedite the process of legally changi ... More >>

Herman Cain: Our next vice president

via WTSP The Lambert-Jolleys​As Florida residents, Rachel and Charlotte Lambert-Jolley knew that their marriage in Connecticut, where same sex weddings are legal, wouldn't be recognized in their own home state. They at least hoped, however, that it would help expedite the process of legally changi ... More >>

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 >>