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• Bills in committee this session could change this by introducing protections for 786,000 LGBTQ adults.
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• Leaders of the United Methodist Church will vote Tuesday on whether to allow LGBTQ pastors and whether same sex weddings can be officiated in the church.
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• Orlando nonprofit Come Out with Pride is hosting an educational conference for groups who plan Pride festivals throughout the South.
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• Republican State Senator Joe Gruters introduced the Florida Inclusive Workforce Act that would amend the Florida Civil Rights Act to include workplace protections for LGBTQ people.
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• Without these protections, people can be hired or fired solely based on their gender identity or sexual orientation.
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• Florida lawmakers want to repeal a state statute leftover from the Defense of Marriage Act.
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• Representative Carlos Guillermo Smith says the Florida House now has enough LGBTQ members for a caucus.
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• This activism continues in November with a special campaign to highlight transgender violence in the local community.
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• Older LGBTQ seniors might lack social networks due to homophobia and trans-phobia.
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• A black transgender woman was shot to death in southwest Florida last week, making her the fifth trans woman to be murdered in this state within the past seven months. Twenty-year-old Londonn Moore was found lying in the road around Sept. 8 in North Port, several miles away from her hometown of Port Charlotte. After the homicide, North Port Police and several local media outlets have misgendered Moore and referred to her dead name. Moore’s murder comes two months after 27-year-old Sasha Garden, another black trans woman, was found dead with signs of trauma at the back of an Orlando apartment complex on July 19. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office say Garden’s case remains “active and open.” The first rash …
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