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10 Florida employers recognized as national Best Places to Work for LGBT employees

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Ten firms from the Florida Businesses for a Competitive Workforce Coalition received a perfect score this week on the annual Human Rights Campaign ranking of workplace equality. In an announcement Tuesday, the corporations scoring a 100 percent rating on the 2016 Corporate Equity Index include such Florida-based companies as Akerman LLP, AT&T, Florida Blue, Carlton Fields Jorden Burt, Darden Restaurants, Marriott, Office Depot, Tech Data, The Walt Disney Co., and Wells Fargo. Each firm earned a spot on HRC’s list…

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LGBT friending habits may be good news for equality

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How many friends do you have on Facebook? For most regular Facebook users that number can get pretty high. There are old friends from high school, some from college, work colleagues, family members, church friends, that nice lady you met in line at the grocery store, favorite elected officials and maybe even your neighbor on that flight you took last summer. But how many of those “friends” are actually friends? The’s the question researchers sought to answer with an in-depth…

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Rainbow Facebook photos: Armchair activism or shifting tide?

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You may have noticed your Facebook friends getting considerably more colorful. More than 26 million Facebook profile photos have taken on a rainbow hue in the days since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday that marriage is a right guaranteed under the Constitution regardless of a person’s sexual orientation. People have been covering their profile photos with the Facebook-supplied overlay that uses the best-known symbol of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights movement: the rainbow. Call it armchair…

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St. Pete Pride in photos

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Thousands upon thousands of people crammed into about a mile’s worth of road Saturday evening for the annual St. Pete Pride. The 2015 festival, the city’s 13th, has grown into Florida’s largest LGBT and diversity celebration. Charged from Friday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling making same-sex marriage the law of the land in all 50-state, the festivities were all the more festive. From decked out queens to scantily clad babes, this year’s Pride had the makings of one heckuva photo shoot. If…

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St. Pete Pride is here!

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It’s Pride weekend!!!! For many – an estimated 250,000 people over the course of the weekend – that’s great news. For some – namely those few who live on Central Avenue in the Grand Central District – it can be fun, but also a pain in the butt. For the folks in the first group, here’s the deets on what to expect for Saturday evening’s main event. More than 150 organizations and businesses support and celebrate the LGBT community locally. With its…

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Mitch Perry Report for 6.12.15 — On this LGBT issue, Florida and Rick Scott resist social conservative pressures

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Thirty-eights years after Anita Bryant, Florida no longer officially bans gays from adopting children. Though it’s been legal for such couples to adopt since 2010, Governor Scott signed a bill into law last night that now makes that official.  As you’ll recall, this issue roiled social conservatives in and outside of the Legislature this spring. The inclusion of the amendment by Miami Beach Democrat David Richardson to repeal the state statute on gay adoption (which was ruled unconstitutional by a court in…

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Tampa Bay Rays to host Pride Night on Friday

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The Chicago-Tampa Bay rivalry moves from the hockey rinks to the baseball diamond this weekend when the White Sox travel to St. Petersburg to play the Rays for three games at Tropicana Field beginning Friday night. That game will also be Tampa Bay Rays Pride Night. The Rays are inviting fans who want to help the ball club support the local LGBT community the opportunity to purchase a specially priced seat in the lower box area, with partial proceeds from each…

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