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17 06, 2021

Florida Will Allow City to Decorate Bridge for PRIDE Month

By JRL Charts|2025-09-28T13:15:53-07:00June 17th, 2021|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: Florida LGBTQ News, Florida politics, gay Florida news, LGBT News – Breaking LGBTQ Headlines, lgbt politics, Politics & Culture | JRL CHARTS, Sarasota bridge lights PRIDE Month, Sarasota Mayor Hagen Body|

SARASOTA, FL — (06-17-21) — After first denying a permit for the city of Sarasota to decorate its bridge for PRIDE Month, the Florida Department of Transportation has reversed its decision and will allow the city of Sarasota to decorate its John Ringling causeway bridge for PRIDE Month. Sarasota Mayor Hagen Brody told NBC News [...]

14 05, 2018

Gay Hate Crime Charges Filed On 4 Men In Florida

By JRL Charts|2025-09-28T13:16:14-07:00May 14th, 2018|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: Adonis Diaz, Dmitry Logunov, Florida LGBTQ News, Florida politics, gay Florida news, gay hate crime, Juan Carlos Lopez, lgbt politics, Luis M. Alonso Piovet, Pablo Reinaldo Romo-Figueroa, Rene Chalarca|

Gay hate crime charges are pending on Four Florida men who police say were the captured on surveillance cameras beating a gay couple last month. All four suspects now face Florida Hate Crime felony charges. Footage of the April 8 attack shows Rene Chalarca and his boyfriend, Dmitry Logunov, being brutally beaten by four men [...]

7 09, 2017

KKK Threatens Gay Political Candidate Running in Florida

By JRL Charts|2025-09-28T13:16:29-07:00September 7th, 2017|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: Cape Coral Police Department, Florida LGBTQ News, gay man James Schneider, gay news, Ku Klux Klan, Ku Kos Knights, lgbt politics|

By: Jack MacNamara, Staff Writer LGBT POLITICS — Outrage continues over a Gay man running for the District 5 seat in Florida receiving threatening letters from the Ku Kos Knights organization which is a division of the Ku Klux Klan. The candidate, openly gay man James Schneider, who is running to represent District 5 on [...]

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