Stories with 'florida' tag

These are the rights Miami’s LGBTQ community do and don’t have

Orlando has raised lots of questions about LGBTQ rights. We broke it down.

/ June 29, 2016

How Florida dropped its HIV numbers — without actually dropping its HIV numbers

In 2014, Florida’s HIV cases dropped by 24 percent while the state continued cutting health care spending. This is how.

/ May 12, 2016

The secret history of Florida prison labor

From the Tamiami Trail to the electric chair, much of Florida was built on the backs of the state’s prisoners. Here’s the story you were never told, tracing a direct line from slavery to the modern prison system.

/ January 4, 2016

5 weird Florida jobs

There’s a lot of ways to make money out there in the world. But Florida definitely has some of the strangest.

/ December 21, 2015

First-person: I got (gay) married on Tuesday

On Tuesday, Andrea, my mom, a few of our dear friends, and I entered a dingy county office and asked to get married. The clerk reviewed our counseling certificate, put slashes beside “bride’s name” and “groom’s name” on our form and scribbled “spouse” above the lines. We signed, smiling. The clerk led us into “the wedding room” and we repeated our vows. And then, we were married. We kissed. We hugged our friends and family. And then we walked down the street and got a cafecito, like married Miamians do.

/ January 9, 2015