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Gulfport Pride 2021 – pictures and voices
On Saturday, the south Pinellas city of Gulfport celebrated LGBTQ Pride with a parade and festival. WMNF interviewed Barbara Banno, one of the organizers of Gulfport Pride. She owns the Gulfport restaurant Stella’s and is...
Tampa Pride Returns to Ybor City
On Saturday thousands gathered in Ybor City to celebrate the first major PRIDE event of 2021. The day included vendors set up throughout Ybor City, the first street parade in the Tampa Bay Area since...
LGBTQ Resource Center of Gulfport announces its Pride Month events
St. Pete Pride Festival is Sunday June 23; and for several weeks before that date, communities in Pinellas County are celebrating Pride Month 2019. Our guests in the studio spoke about some of the Pride...
Tampa Pride is this weekend in Ybor City
This weekend is the Tampa Pride festival; most events are centered in Ybor City on Saturday. To find out what people can expect, WMNF spoke with Nancy Desmond from Tampa Pride. “Tampa Pride is the...
Allendale United Methodist Church supports LGBTQ rights despite church vote
In late February — at an international conference of the United Methodist Church in St. Louis — delegates voted against a proposal to let regional groups decide whether or not to ordain members of the...
St. Pete Pride expects 200,000 for Saturday’s 2018 LGBTQ+ parade
This week is St. Pete Pride, one of the South’s largest LGBTQ+ celebrations; the Tampa Bay Times reports that police are investigating threats against the Pride weekend posted on social media. To find out what...
Funny, With A Message on Life Elsewhere
When Katie Met Cassidy and Blown are two new, clever-funny novels. Both are very much set in the present, each book reels off timely iconic observations and pop-culture references without a hint of self-consciousness. Their...
Activists say Noor Salman is innocent in Pulse shooting
The wife of the man who killed 49 people in 2016 at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando goes on trial next week. Noor Salman is charged with providing material support to a terrorist organization and...
St. Pete Pride will feature Florida’s first transgender pride march
This weekend is one of the largest gay pride events in the south: St. Pete Pride. Organizers expect hundreds of thousands of people to converge on St. Petersburg. Here is a link to previous WMNF...
Pulse memorials planned for Tampa & St. Pete
Next week marks one year since the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando; this Saturday in Tampa’s Ybor City, several groups are hosting a memorial for the Pulse victims. Aaron Munoz is president...
Florida This Week: Trump levels new charges against Clinton, speaks to anti-LGBT group in Orlando
by Rob Lorei On Radioactivity Monday we aired the latest episode of Florida This Week, a political talks show from local PBS station WEDU that is also hosted by Rob Lorei. Our expert panel of...
By Rob Lorei on Radioactivity Monday, we listened back to the latest Florida This Week, a political discussion show from local PBS station WEDU that is also hosted by Rob Lorei. In this episode, our...
