Tag Archives: Gainesville

Anti-gay activists in Gainesville, Florida are handing out hoax fliers urging support of openly gay mayoral candidate Craig Lowe, promising that he will bring the city “gays in women’s restrooms” among other gay gay gay things. “Please help to make this town more like San Francisco, CA,” the flier reads. “Don’t let Traditional Value Activists use scare tactics against you!” …

The Concerned Citizens of Gainesville are smearing openly gay mayoral candidate Craig Lowe by posting placards claiming that his support for the city’s recently passed transgender rights ordinance means he is pro-pedophilia. Via Equality Florida: Last year, when anti-LGBT forces tried to repeal Gainesville’s Human Rights ordinance, Craig Lowe served as Chair of the successful campaign to stop the repeal …

You may recall the nasty anti-gay campaign to repeal Gainesville, Florida’s LGBT rights law, during which images of men creeping into ladies’ rooms was used as a scare tactic against transgender rights. The repeal failed, but now comes word of the arrest of one of the repeal’s petition gatherers. For creeping into ladies’ rooms and filming them! The CVS Pharmacy …

Yesterday the voters of Gainesville, Florida refused to repeal that city’s LGBT discrimination protections. From Equality Florida: Equality Florida joins with local leaders in Gainesville and fair-minded people across the state and nation in celebrating today’s decisive victory over discrimination and fear embodied in Gainesville Charter Amendment 1. Voters rejected the amendment by a vote of 58% to 42%. If …

Today the city of Gainesville, FL will vote on repealing their LGBT discrimination protections. A charter amendment that would strip this university city’s anti-discrimination protections extended to gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender residents is before voters Tuesday. The fight began after the city commission last year revised Gainesville’s anti-discrimination ordinance to protect transgender people – those who are born one …

Gainesville, the bustling Central Florida town that is home to the massive University Of Florida campus, will next month vote on a repeal of that city’s LGBT rights ordinances. Christianist activists there have placed an amendment on the ballot that will make it legal to fire, not hire, and deny housing to LGBT people. Charter Amendment One, if approved, would …

A year old transgender rights ordinance in college-town Gainesville, Florida is under attack by right-wingers who are attempting to repeal trans protections via a March ballot measure. And typically, they are using the old “scary pervert in the restroom” ploy to terrify voters. A blond girl heads from a playground into a women’s restroom. A scruffy man, lurking outside, darts …