The end of The SMART Ride (SR) doesn’t mean the end of the community that’s formed over the course of 20 rides. Thousands of riders, crew, and volunteers work every year to raise a million dollars for HIV service organizations in Florida.
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The Campbell Foundation awarded a new $65,000 grant to Daniel Claiborne, Ph.D., an immunologist and researcher at The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia. Claiborne is re-engineering CAR T-cells to target and kill cells infected with HIV.
Billy Porter is a big star, but he’s an even bigger community activist. He headlined Back To the Drive for Stonewall National Museum & Archives, rallying the crowd and helping raise $60K.
$142,063.46. That’s how much money Compass received from last year’s SMART Ride. It’s a big number and a budget shortfall that won’t be easily made up.
SMART Ride's announcement on ending shook the community to the core. Check out the information below.
The 9 a.m. Sunday service at Sunshine Cathedral was interrupted when someone lit a fire outside the church. Witnesses say the man was burning something in what appeared to be some kind of ritual, likely in opposition to the LGBTQ-affirming church.
A little drag and a lot of fun are in store this weekend as Wilton Collective hosts its annual Reverse Quinceañera (RQ). Founder Julian Cavazos began the tradition on his 51st birthday, the reverse of 15 which is the traditional age for a quinceañera.
After the Miami-Dade School Board voted against recognizing LGBT History Month in October while the Broward School Board voted for it, it was a tossup how South Florida’s northernmost county would decide at their Sept. 13 meeting.
When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis escalated his war on drag entertainment, R House was target number one.
Gary Blocker has been with the Wilton Manors Police Department for more than 25 years, and is in his second year as chief. But he says there’s more work to do, and he’s not going anywhere.
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