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Nicholas Sparks is a rampaging bigot! At least, that’s what a former employee is accusing him of in a recent 47-page complaint.
Savannah Wheless, a 20-year-old UF junior, writes on a door for National Coming Out Day. LGBT Affairs and Pride Student Union hosted the day on the Plaza of the Americas.
The Pride Student Union is asking UF students to peer through the looking glass to learn more about the LGBT community’s Pride History Week.
George Takei stepped onto the University Auditorium stage Tuesday evening to thunderous applause.
Revisions made to a federal sexual assault act will now include LGBT students. But for some people in UF community, the act is not enough.
During a week meant to raise awareness about bisexuality, Gainesville stood quiet.
Trekkies can reunite with former Star Trek actor and social justice activist George Takei on Oct. 7.
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Friday she will be filing appeals in several same-sex marriage cases across the state.
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Millions of people around the globe hope for world peace, but will it actually happen?
The recent Hobby Lobby supreme court decision found that closely held corporations (any company that has a limited number of shareholders) do not have to comply with the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that insurance plans cover women’s contraception if that conflicts with the religious beliefs of the business’s owner.
Gay marriage proponents in Gainesville and beyond are waiting for the results of a lawsuit challenging Florida’s laws that prohibit same-sex couples from marriage.
Donating blood is a relatively simple process: you answer a questionnaire, choose the arm you would like to use, feel a pinch, get your prizes and you’re good to go. But there’s been a long controversy involving many members of the LGBT+ community and their eligibility to donate blood.
When Gildas Dousset received his tuition bill, it was nearly four times as high as it was supposed to be.
We know Spring Fever — a general increase in energy and sexual appetite — is definitely a thing, but it seemed this week that sudden-loud-and-horrible-opinions-from-old-white-guys fever is a thing, too. From “Wheel of Fortune” host Pat Sajak coming out over Twitter as a global-warming truther (and inexplicably calling global warming “alarmists” unpatriotic and racist?) to a Florida representative claiming that the Common Core is part of the “gay agenda,” we’re left scratching our heads. So this one goes out to all irrelevant game show hosts and bigots with microphones: our keep-calm-but-maybe-don’t-carry-on? edition of Darts & Laurels
Yesterday, the Chicago Tribune published a compelling editorial defending Common Core, a set of proposed educational standards for U.S. students that was met first with overwhelming support and then with vitriol.
Laverne Cox encouraged Gators to embrace diversity during her Monday night speech in the University Auditorium.
Pride Awareness Month at UF, cited as the largest student-run LGBTQ+ series of events and celebrations in the country, kicked off Monday night.
Mayor Ed Braddy’s recent pledge to “revamp” the City of Gainesville internship program is nothing new. I interned for the City of Gainesville in the summer of 2011 and did much more than “shadow the City Commission,” as Braddy claimed in the Feb. 26 edition of the Alligator.
Conservatives flocked to Washington, D.C., last week for the Conservative Political Action Conference to rally behind conservative leaders and discuss their core ideological beliefs. Sadly, the week produced the same rhetoric spouted by conservatives — most of whom identify as Republicans — that many young Americans and minorities, more often than not, reject.
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