by admin | Mar 16, 2016 | Power LGBT
Lakeland lawyer Larry Hardaway organized an event in Lakeland recently as a vigil for the late Virgil Hawkins, a respected civil rights pioneer in Florida. Hawkins’ story begins in 1949, when the then 43-year-old’s application to the University of Florida’s Levin...
by admin | Dec 4, 2015 | Business, LGBTQIA+, Politics
It feels like every week, some company shows its LGBT colors. Here are a few companies that have shown their colors to be rainbow and supporting the LGBT community as employers or as community supporters and donors to supportive causes and initiatives. Some do...
by admin | Dec 3, 2015 | Equality, LGBTQIA+
LGBT Americans achieved a huge milestone this year when the Supreme Court recognized same-sex marriage nationwide, and many places are working to pass LGBT measures in local courts. But the work is far from over: other places, like Indiana, are still trying to...
by admin | Oct 16, 2015 | Equality, LGBTQIA+, News
Sunday the 11th was National Coming Out Day, and to engage with the day the Fire Department of New York released a video PSA for the It Gets Better project, targeted at LGBT youth. Federal legislation, like the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act and the Supreme...
by admin | Oct 16, 2015 | LGBTQIA+, News
The state of Michigan has agreed to pay $1.9 million to the lawyers who have won a landmark gay marriage case at the US Supreme Court. The Michigan case was one that led to the legalization of marriage equality for every state in the United States. The lawyers were...
