LGBTQ Community

The McKenzie Project has emerged to “uplift individuals aged 14 and above.” This is not only an age that reflects McKenzie’s own personal experience, but it also reflects trends she has observed within her community.

For Argentines, it was just the city’s annual Gay Pride celebration. But for a Russian gay couple joining this month’s festivities, they were scenes from another planet.

City officials said FDOT gave the city only 12 hours notice before painting over the crosswalk.

A defiant stand in Delray Beach — as city leaders are holding firm on keeping an LGBTQ Pride mural in place, despite pressure from the state.

Jamaican-born author and filmmaker Max-Arthur Mantle hopes a screen version of his gay coming-of-age novel — controversially titled "Batty Bwoy!" — will help make his homophobic home island LGBTQ-legal.

Delray Beach police are searching for the driver of a pickup truck that burned tire marks across the city’s rainbow-colored LGBTQ Pride mural last month — the third time the intersection has been vandalized since the mural was first painted in 2021.

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.