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Friday, July 18, 2025

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Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  EDITORIALS

Gay? Fine by us.

Today would be a great day for you to reevaluate how you think about the people around you. What if you found out today that one of your friends were gay? What if your cousin told you he or she were transgender?


METRO

Sellers of Squash

(Lauren Langston / Alligator) Scott Edmundson and Haley West, both merchants at the Union Street Farmers' Market, talk to a customer at their pumpkin stand on Wednesday. Beginning Oct. 17, the farmer's market will be relocated to the Downtown Community Plaza at the corner of East University Avenue and Southeast 1st Street and will be open from 4 p.m to 7 p.m.


Florida Alligator
THE AVENUE  |  MUSIC

Despite lack of crowd, out-of-towners put on good show

On Feb. 5, 2006, The Rolling Stones broke all sorts of attendance records playing in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. On, Oct. 5, the Lakeland band Joon played its first show in Gainesville, breaking a personal record in low attendance: eight people. If you count the bartender and the band members' girlfriends, the number rises to a staggering 11.


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