Queer Joy

This is the 13th year the national Human Rights Campaign has given scores to cities across the country on inclusive policies and ordinances. The HRC emphasizes that these scores do not necessarily reflect the best places for LGBTQ+ people to live.

Love Proudly gave couples and individuals in the LGBTQ+ community a place to feel celebrated as they plan their big days.

At First Congregational United Church of Christ in Sarasota, supporting and serving the LGBTQ+ community has been part of its mission for decades.

Founder Jason DeShazo, known locally as drag performer "Momma Ashley Rose," said the center will expand in early 2025 to encompass the other half of the building it's renting.

St. Pete Pride's pinnacle event had a record-size estimated crowd of 300,000 despite the heat and threat of rain.

A New York-based visual artist’s newly released images of a 1970s LGBTQ+ getaway are now on display at a St. Petersburg art gallery, with the goal of spreading queer joy.

The second year of Silver Pride in Sarasota by Project Pride SRQ, Senior Friendship Centers, and Golden Girls Solutions drew more than 700 attendees, most of whom were 50 or older.

It's a week into Pride Month and the party is just getting started in the Tampa Bay region. Here are some of the events happening in the area.

The five-part documentary is on YouTube and aims to "shed light on personal journeys, challenges, triumphs, as well as the ways in which anti-gay legislation has impacted the community."

TransNetwork is a Tampa Bay area organization that is building community for transgender and gender expansive people, and educating allies on how they can help support them.

WUSF is asking members of the community to nominate their favorite "queer elders" to highlight the work of older LGBTQ+ Tampa Bay residents.

Students in a queer cohort at the University of South Florida, part of the school's "living and learning communities," celebrated five years since its creation.