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v. t. e. Same-sex marriage has been legal in Florida since January 6, 2015, as a result of a ruling in Brenner v. Scott from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida. The court ruled the state's same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional on August 21, 2014. The order was stayed temporarily.
A new color has been added to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement emergency alert system. This July, state officials added a Florida Purple Alert to help authorities locate missing adults ...
Full adoption rights since 2010. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT) people in the U.S. state of Florida have federal protections, but many face legal difficulties on the state level that are not experienced by non-LGBT residents. Same-sex sexual activity became legal in the state after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence ...
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. [1] [a]The novel has been the target of censors numerous times, and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2010 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit ...
Publication place. United States. Advertisement for the Purple Pamphlet by Guild Press, a publisher of homosexual erotica. Homosexuality and Citizenship in Florida, also known as the Purple Pamphlet, was an anti-homosexual propaganda pamphlet published in January 1964 by the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee (FLIC) of the Florida ...
In April 2022, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed HB 7, known as the "Stop WOKE Act," in Hialeah Gardens, Fla. (Daniel A. Varela/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) (TNS)
e. The Lavender Scare was a moral panic about homosexual people in the United States government which led to their mass dismissal from government service during the mid-20th century. It contributed to and paralleled the anti-communist campaign which is known as McCarthyism and the Second Red Scare. [ 1] Gay men and lesbians were said to be ...
Pop star Pink says she will be giving away 2,000 banned books at two of her South Florida concerts this week in order to draw attention to the recent wave of censorship laws that impact American ...