State Rep. David Richardson (D-Miami Beach) wants to know what the Sunshine State spent fighting equal marriage rights for the past several years. Richardson wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi Thursday and asked for “a full accounting” of the amount of taxpayer money and resources her office spent on numerous appeal to prohibit gay marriage — until […]
By ALEX FERNANDEZ and ROBERT WOLFARTH Two weeks ago we stood on the steps of the Supreme Court for one final picture as single men right before our US Representative, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, united us as married Americans. We were full of jubilee and excited — in part out of relief that the justices had […]
Alex Fernandez might be just a communications aide to Miami-Dade Commissioner Rebeca Sosa, but the longtime government worker bee — who landed there after former Commissioner Lynda Bell was beaten last November — has got some bigger political pals. Fernandez will wed his longtime partner Robert Wolfarth at a Washington, D.C., ceremony Monday (Congratulations!) to […]
It’s not the gay people or the straight people who stand out at the SAVE’s Champions of Equality awards gala. It’s the Republicans. Only three Republicans are listed among the two dozen electeds on the honorary host committee for this May event, which recognizes community leaders for their efforts to make LGBT equality a reality. […]
Miami Beach activist Mike Burke is also an intrepid cartoonist who sometimes submits his ideas to Political Cortadito. This week, he took aim at Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has done everything in her power to thwart marriage equality, defending the same-sex marriage state ban and becoming suddenly silent when a state court reversed […]
Fresh off the epic fail that was the botched (read: fake) recall effort in Doral, local “activist” and gypsy con artist Vanessa Brito has moved on, yet again, like the locust she is. This time, she says she formed a PAC to collect signatures for marriage equality in Florida. While the effort is worthwhile and […]