The Key West Business Guild, one of the oldest LGBT Chamber of Commerce organizations in the U.S., has launched a fun and sexy viral video to promote a few of the city’s 2012 gay-friendly events, including:
Organizers of GayDays Orlando, the annual summer celebration that draws tens of thousands of LGBTQ visitors to Central Florida, have announced that the event will be temporarily "paused" in 2026.
"After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to pause the GayDays Orlando event scheduled for June 2026," organizers from GayDays, Inc. wrote in a Facebook post. "Changes to our host hotel agreement, the loss of key sponsorship support, and broader challenges currently impacting LGBTQIA+ events nationwide made it impossible to deliver the experience our community deserves."
A Florida woman has been arrested on a felony child abuse charge after allegedly cutting a young family member with a knife upon discovering messages indicating he is gay.
According to South Florida TV station WPLG, police began investigating Grether Leidy Guadarramas Pena, 41, after the boy told a teacher what had happened at his home on March 14. The teacher then reported the incident to authorities.
An arrest report from the Florida City Police Department states that the boy -- whose age was not specified -- told detectives his brother discovered Discord messages about his sexual orientation and took the computer away. The brother then gave it to another family member, who "made him stand facing the wall" until Guadarramas arrived home.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill ensuring that some Floridians living with HIV can access three more months of life-saving antiretroviral medications through the state’s ADAP program.
ADAP, the AIDS Drug Assistance Program, is a state-level initiative that helps low-income and uninsured people living with HIV access medications that would otherwise be prohibitively expensive.
Amid stagnant federal funding and rising health care costs, many states’ ADAP programs have faced shortfalls, prompting cuts or stricter income eligibility requirements that reduce the number of people who qualify.
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