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Kathleen Ford says, if elected, she will make all public bathrooms unisex facilities

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In addition to saying the City Council was wrong to exclude transgender individuals when the human rights ordinance was changed to protect gays and lesbians, Kathleen Ford said “all public bathrooms should be unisex, private-stall bathrooms to accommodate everyone” according to an article in which the mayoral candidates outline where they stand on gay rights issues. As I do whenever I discuss gay rights issues, let me qualify everything I write by reiterating my belief that gay rights is a…

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Equality Florida seeks to make St. Pete City Council race a referendum on gay rights

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Despite its failure to frame St. Petersburg’s Mayoral Election as an us=versus-them vote on gay rights, Equality Florida is now attempting to cast the race to represent District 5 on the City Council as an “historic” referendum on gay rights. What follows are excerpts from an e-mail Equality Florida’s PAC distributed immediately after Tuesday’s primary: Openly-Gay Candidate Steve Kornell Dominates St. Pete Primary for City Council Now He Needs Your Help in the General Election Yesterday, Steve Kornell took a…

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Equality Florida says St. Pete’s next Mayor will be either Bill Foster or Scott Wagman

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Sorry Kathleen Ford, you may be leading in the polls, with most political insiders predicting Ford is all but guaranteed a place in the General Election, but Equality Florida’s Nadine Smith says St. Pete’s next Mayor will be either Bill Foster or Scott Wagman. In a post on the Equality Florida blog, the normally intelligent Smith seems to forget about the front-running Ford, painting the mayoral campaign in rather stark terms: “The city’s next mayor will either be Scott Wagman…

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California Supreme Court upholds gay marriage ban

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The California Supreme Court has upheld a voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, but it also decided that the estimated 18,000 gay couples who tied the knot before the law took effect will stay wed. The decision Tuesday rejected an argument by gay rights activists that the ban revised the California constitution’s equal protection clause to such a dramatic degree that it first needed the Legislature’s approval. The announcement of the decision caused outcry among a sea of demonstrators who had…

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Kirby Dick on Charlie Crist — More sources on his being gay than are in Outrage

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Director Kirby Dick made This Film is Not Yet Rated, so he’s not shy about stirring things up politically. That film riled the movie ratings board (its subject) like you wouldn’t believe. He’s not one to fret if his movie lands in the middle of a stink, as his Outrage may well be, detailing many a gay and (usually) conservative politician, political operator and campaign chief who fights against gay rights but is all about gay sex himself. Florida Governor…

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Should Democrats Be Rooting for Charlie Crist?

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From Nate Silver: Florida Governor Charlie Crist will reportedly announce tomorrow that he is running for the United States Senate. At first glance this move — which would have surprised until we began to hear credible chatter about it from Republican insiders earlier this month — would seem like a real recruiting coup for the GOP. In contrast to most governors, Crist retains strong approval ratings; he is well ahead, moreover, of prospective Democratic opponents in early horse race polling.…

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