LGBTQ

It's a week into Pride Month and the party is just getting started in the Tampa Bay region. Here are some of the events happening in the area.

Organizers say it’s important to understand the unique challenges faced by older LGBTQ adults and to celebrate their contributions to advancing rights.

Despite a rash of anti-LGBTQ laws in the Florida legislature in recent years — and a travel warning to LGBTQ people from Equality Florida last year — the Memorial Day parties continue on Pensacola Beach.

The five-part documentary is on YouTube and aims to "shed light on personal journeys, challenges, triumphs, as well as the ways in which anti-gay legislation has impacted the community."

Gov. Ron DeSantis says Florida won’t comply with new Title IX rules.

The new rules spell out that the 1972 law to protect women's rights in schools also applies to sexual orientation and gender identity. Gov. Ron DeSantis says, "We will not comply."

A federal judge has blocked part of the Parental Rights in Education law as it applies to one teacher in the state.

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked education officials from enforcing a law requiring a transgender Hillsborough County teacher to use pronouns that align with her sex assigned at birth, saying the law violated her First Amendment rights.

"Can’t Stop Change: Queer Climate Stories from the Florida Frontlines" premiered last weekend at the Tampa Bay Transgender Film Festival. It follows the film's production team on a road trip across Florida to meet with 14 LGBTQ+ artists, organizers and activists.

In founding Capital Tea, Janel Diaz sought to provide the kind of services that she had needed after her transition.

A transgender Hillsborough County teacher is one of two instructors who are seeking a preliminary injunction. The judge says he will do his "best to get out an order as quickly as possible.”

A Hillsborough County teacher is among the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which contends the restrictions violate a federal civil-rights law and the First Amendment.