LGBTQ Community

The WorldPride 2025 Parade kicks off Saturday in Washington, D.C., with a 1,000-foot Rainbow Flag made from pieces of the Gilbert Baker Foundation’s original 2003 Key West “Sea to Sea” flag.

One of NPR's best reads in 2020, Swimming in the Dark, is being adapted into an Opera. Act One is set to be performed in Key West this week.

A.H. Monroe, a nonprofit that provides health and housing resources for Florida Keys residents, is teaming up with Queer Keys, a new nonprofit that opened the Keys' only LGBTQ+ resource center in October. One of their goals is to better serve senior citizens.

A federal appellate-court panel heard arguments Tuesday in a challenge to a Florida law requiring educators to use pronouns that align with their sex assigned at birth, in a case that has drawn national attention from the Biden administration, teachers unions and LGBTQ advocates.

The non-profit group Queer Keys is gearing up to open the island chain’s only LGBTQ+ support community center. The Key West city commission helped clear the way for the organization to reach its goal by voting to waive over $3,000 in fees for the group to receive a permit to operate.

Gay and trans migrants often faced violence in their home countries. Many face similar persecution from their countrymen in the U.S.

For the first time, the U.S. Census Bureau has collected national data on sexual orientation and gender identity related to disaster displacement.

COMMENTARY Pope Francis has suggested the church can bless same-sex unions — a reconsideration of Catholic teaching that reflects gay marriage's rise in Latin America.