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Equality Florida is a political advocacy group that advocates for civil rights and protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer residents of the U.S. state of Florida. Equality Florida consists of two organizations - Equality Florida Institute, Inc., the 501(c)(3) educational charity and Equality Florida Action, Inc., the 501 ...
The plaintiffs included Equality Florida, an LGBTQ advocacy organization; Family Equality, a New York-based nonprofit; and several parents and students in Florida.
In April 2023, Florida LGBT advocacy group Equality Florida issued a travel advisory for LGBTQ people to avoid visiting or moving to the state. [5] [6] The following May, the Human Rights Campaign signed on to the travel advisory, citing legislation recently signed by Governor DeSantis, while stopping short of calling for a boycott of the state ...
“In Florida, tens of thousands of people have legally updated their gender marker on their driver’s license or ID,” Nadine Smith, executive director of Equality Florida, a state LGBTQ ...
The bill says that “a person’s sex is an immutable biological trait and that it is false to ascribe to a person a pronoun that does not correspond to such person’s sex.”
In 2022, Smith was named by Time to the Time 100, their annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world [16] In 2022, the GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders awarded Smith the Spirit of Justice Award for her work on "national human rights advocate, organizer, and LGBTQ equality champion for over three decades" [17]
As Florida lawmakers try to block minors from social media as a way to help their mental health, LGBTQ advocates say their plan would do the opposite. LGBTQ advocates say Florida social media ...
Since returning to Equality Florida he has held campaign positions in high-profile campaigns including the re-election campaign of St. Peterburg Mayor Rick Kriseman, [11] the historic election of Fort Lauderdale's first LGBTQ Mayor Dean Trantalis, [12] the successful effort to unseat anti-LGBTQ incumbent Florida State Senator Daphne Campbell ...