From the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force: WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama signed an executive order today creating the White House Council on Women and Girls. The council is designed to provide a coordinated federal response to the challenges confronting women and girls, and to ensure that...

BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER, cmarbin@MiamiHerald.com As gay rights advocates and religious groups queue up in an effort to influence the outcome of a Miami appeals court case that will help decide whether gay people can adopt children in Florida, a state lawmaker has quietly introduced two bills that cou...

From Broward County Health Department: 2009 Art Exhibition Body Publish at Scribd or explore others:...

The Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival is selling tickets to two events: a March 22 screening of Pedro, a biopic of Miami's Pedro Zamora who appeared on MTV's The Real World in 1994 and died of AIDS complications shortly after; and An Evening with John Waters on May 1 at the Lincoln Theat...

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Executive Director Rea Carey, in South Florida last week for Winter Party Festival, attended a White House healthcare forum this week with President Barack Obama. Here's the Task Force news release: “In the coming months, the macro themes and issues ra...

From Broward County Health Department: 2009 HIVAIDS 101 Training Class 03242009 Publish at Scribd or explore others:...

Posted to the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission  blog: The long awaited anti-gay workshop featuring some of the most virulent homophobes from the U.S. religious right started today at the Triangle Hotel in Kampala. The workshop, which is scheduled to last 3 days, attracted ...

Here's information about an interesting event, Beyond Straight Supremacy and the Myth of Change: The Future of LGBT Politics, to be held Saturday, March 14, at The Wolfsonian-FIU:  Click photo to enlarge...

News release from Sidelines Sports Bar:   SIDELINES’ PARTY FOR CHARITY CELEBRATES COMMUNITY SPIRIT & COMMITMENT TO STOP THE SPREAD OF HIV/AIDS The recent fundraiser held at Sidelines Sports Bar was heralded by most as an awesome success, raising nearly $8,000 for the Florida AIDS Walk, t...

From Aqua Foundation for Women: Join the women of AQUA at Saturday's March 7, 2009 NCLR reception. The National Center for Lesbian Rights is a national legal organization committed to advancing the civil and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families ...