Gay Rights

Lisa Mills, co-director of the documentary “The Committee," discussed her award-winning film, which will air 10 p.m. Thursday on WJCT channel 7.1.The film…

We discuss the week's biggest news stories with our roundtable of local journalists: Tonyaa Weathersbee, Florida Times-Union columnist; Tim Gibbons,…

A ban on gay adoption was struck from Florida law Thursday with Gov. Rick Scott’s signature.The controversial measure also reinstates an incentive program…

After nearly two hours of debate, a Senate committee Monday voted to table a controversial House bill that would allow private adoption agencies to refuse…

Despite warnings that Florida would follow Indiana into a controversy with statewide economic implications, the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday…

Hundreds of same-sex couples married across Florida today, the first day their unions are recognized in the state. WJCT was at the Duval County Courthouse…

With same-sex marriages ready to start Tuesday across the state, a circuit judge allowed gay couples to go ahead and begin getting married Monday in…

Pointing to his earlier "explicit ruling that Florida's same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional,'' a federal judge Thursday issued an order that likely…

Chipley, Fla. — Stephen Schlairet and Ozzie Russ have almost as much in common with their neighbors in the tiny Panhandle community of Chipley as the way…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to keep in place a hold on gay marriage, which is set to…