Pulse Nightclub Shooting Remembered Amid Calls for Action
President Joe Biden in 2021 declared the site of the Orlando nightclub as a national memorial.
JUNE 12, 2023
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President Joe Biden in 2021 declared the site of the Orlando nightclub as a national memorial.
Equality advocates try to correct the state's ugly history just as the GOP governor snubs queer constituents.
Florida budgeted for a Parkland memorial the year the shooting happened, but Pulse survivors are still fighting for the money three years later.
Police have distributed security footage of the shooting that targeted a complex with several queer venues.
He's called gender-affirming care "chemical castration."
Far-right Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign the bill soon.
At a rally on the steps outside the building on Wednesday, LGBTQ leaders and progressive lawmakers slammed legislation threatening to erase trans identities.
The incident occurred on the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia.
An Orlando Sentinel investigation found that the publicly funded program sent $129 million just last year to schools with anti-LGBTQ policies.
Republican Rep. Travis Cummings shut down Florida gadfly Greg Pound's homophobic remarks at a committee hearing.
The unfriendly neighbor responded to anti-Trump signs by calling the homeowner a "gay Asian with AIDS."
Students at Lyman High School in Longwood, Fla., had pushed back against plans to cover up yearbook pictures of their protest against the anti-LGBTQ+ law.
In a move that's being seen as a response to Disney's opposition to "don't say gay" legislation, Florida citizens may be looking at coughing up $1 billion.
Hundreds of parents, children, and advocates gathered at the Florida Capitol on Monday to protest a wave of anti-LGBTQ+ bills that have been proposed in the state.
Florida's Speaker of the House introduced a bill this week allowing concealed weapons to be carried without a permit.
It's just the latest in DeSantis's anti-LGBTQ+ agenda.
He sent a problematic flier mocking nonbinary people to the homes of Floridians of whom he seeks votes next week.
The virtual school says its hands are tied due to Florida's "don't say gay" law. However, the teacher has lodged a complaint against it.
The state's Department of Health and its Department of Education have pushed to restrict trans rights.
Someone defaced one writing that children need to be saved from “trans lies.”
Just a day after he signed an anti-trans bill into law, the governor used his veto power to deny funding to LGBTQ+ services, including mental health care for survivors of the Pulse tragedy.