Bill Spinosa, a pioneering LGBTQ+ community leader and founding president of the Gay Men's Chorus of South Florida (GMCSF), passed away suddenly on November 1, 2025, at the age of 67. Bill helped launch GMCSF in 2010 and dedicated over 15 years to nurturing its mission to inspire audiences, open minds, and change hearts through music. His unwavering passion and leadership made him a beloved pillar of South Florida's LGBTQ+ arts community and cemented a legacy of activism and song. 

The Illustrated Oxford Dictionary defines philanthropy as “1. a love of humanity [and] 2. practical benevolence, esp. charity on a large scale.”

Holiday Park, long considered one of Fort Lauderdale’s crown jewels, is experiencing a historic rebirth — one that blends the city’s sporting heritage with a bold, forward-looking vision for generations to come.

In late November, Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent instructions to U.S. diplomats directing them to sell Trump’s immigration policies to allies who don’t want them.

As a Black transgender woman from Miami, my life is a testimony of survival, resilience, and transformation. From childhood, I carried trauma I never asked for, molestation, rejection from family, and verbal abuse that no child should endure. As I grew older, violence became familiar: I faced guns, robberies, betrayal from loved ones, and abandonment by people I once trusted. Survival was instinct. With no safety net, I turned to sex work, hustling, and whatever means kept me alive.

Twenty years after Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage in 2004, and a decade after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges ruling extended marriage equality nationwide in 2015, a key question lingers: do same-sex marriages last as long as marriages between men and women?