If you think overturning Roe v. Wade doesn’t apply to “us”, think again. “Us” has come to mean everyone who is not a heterosexual white man.

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by Damon Scott

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Individuals and unmarried couples facing the inevitable decline in health and independence associated with aging often face pitfalls that are far less likely happen to legally married couples. For the fact is that the common planning is geared towards the traditional “married with children” family life....
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And we thought that if only we won the right to marry our problems would be “over’, and now we realize in many ways, our struggle for equal rights has just begun. Don’t get me wrong, your marriage has achieved some basic rights. Yes, if you marry you will have the right to inherit something from your spouse...
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Now that we have the right to marry in Florida, and you have chosen your husband, or wife, there are legal issues to consider in addition to the when and where of your wedding plans. First, while there are over one thousand rights conferred by the act of legal marriage, your marriage also comes with serious set of obligations...
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1. Living Will. Your “living will” is a formally witnessed statement that life prolonging procedures be withheld or withdrawn after your attending physician and another consulting physician have determined that there is no reasonable medical probability of recovery from your medical, terminal, end-state or vegetative state condition. ...
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During this time of financial upheaval more people find themselves in untenable financial circumstances due not just to lack of money management and over spending, but to job loss, medical bills, loss of a partner, or other unexpected changes in your life. But, if you are like most people, filing for bankruptcy is the last thing that enters your mind as a solution....
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Which I co-wrote and was enacted in 1999.
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I was one of the thousands of Americans stranded in various parts of the globe in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 9/11. On September 11, 2001, my partner and I were wrapping up a Grecian holiday on the board walk in Skala Eressos, on the Greek Isle of Lesbos in the Aegean sea, and just a short hop from the Middle East....
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For one, she's a lesbian whose law practice almost exclusively represents gay clients. She spearheaded groundbreaking ordinances in Broward County to protect gay rights and allow same-sex couples to register as domestic partners.


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by Tony Adams


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On July 26th, only hours after the stunning exhilaration and euphoria resulting from seeing SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LEGAL NATIONWIDE emblazoned across my tv screen, after sitting teary-eyed with my wife, mesmerized by the talking heads and ebullient crowds famously “on the plaza” at the Supreme Court, and after, unable to sit ...
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While this was first published as an obituary article in the Sun Sentinel, the story of Alan Curtis’ achievements that laid the foundation for the rights we enjoy today, is to step back in time - less than 30 years - and see how far we have come in a short time.
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Standing on the curb outside baggage claim at LAX, I shifted the weight of my overnight bag on my shoulder, looking for my brother, Peter. His white Toyota nosed its way through the congested airport traffic, and there he was! Blond and blue, eyes bright and twinkling as usual, skin clear, his handsome face crossed with only...
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I pulled the article reproduced in part below off the internet in 1999 and published it in The Weekly News aka TWN, (South Florida’s only gay paper at the time) as a reminder to the gay reader that we weren’t home yet, and that they had to vote (in 2000, we elected Gore, but, the election was taken from him by the Supreme Court - If you don’t remember this, due to your relative youth...
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