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Elizabeth McCarthy, an out Democrat running for the Florida House of Representatives, has dropped out of the race and admitted that she concocted an elaborate web of lies to make herself look better to voters. McCarthy claimed she was a cardiologist that saved the lives of 32 victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. “It is a false statement. I just made it up,” McCarthy said, according to an affidavit released Wednesday by the Florida Department of Health. McCarthy is...

Madonna released her latest music video to her song God Control yesterday and, as usual, it has everyone talking. The eight minute video was directed by frequent Madonna collaborator Jonas Åkerlund and includes a cameo by Monét X Change. It makes strong statement about gun violence in America by depicting a horrific massacre inside a nightclub, where a white male gunman enters and slaughters everyone in sight. The reference, of course, is the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting. Later, the video incorporates real-life footage of protesters...

As Floridians and queer people around the world continue to mourn and memorialize the third anniversary of the Orlando Pulse Nightclub massacre, a group of Florida lawmakers have introduced a new bill in Congress to have the site declared a historic landmark. U.S. Reps. Darren Soto and Stephanie Murphy announced their intentions on Monday during remarks in front of Pulse. Since the shooting the club has become a temporary memorial. “This is an important step to preserve an LGBT historic landmark at...

In a shocking act of nincompoopery, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) totally eliminated any reference to the LGBTQ community in his official proclamation commemorating the third anniversary of the Pulse nightclub massacre on June 12. After being called out for the glaring omission, DeSantis tried blaming an unnamed “staff member” for scrubbing the reference to the queer community. Pulse nightclub catered to an LGBTQ crowd. The night of the attack was also promoted as “Latin Night,” which was another item overlooked...

A group of anti-LGBTQ preachers will be hosting a “Make America Straight Again” conference this weekend in Florida, three years after the Pulse nightclub shooting. The preachers, associated with the New Independent Fundamentalist Baptist Church, put together the conference in Orlando as a way to dishonor those who died in the gay nightclub shooting that left 49 people dead on June 12, 2016. According to a promotional video put together by pastor Patrick Boyle of the Revival Baptist Church in Orlando,...

That same year, just weeks after the the shooting, the opening of the 47th annual Chicago Pride Parade included a moving tribute to the 49 lives lost. Chicagoans carried posters of each victim. It was a colorful, touching tribune."That was a commemoration and tribute, and the right thing to do," parade organizer Richard Pfeiffer told GoPride.com in 2016.Orlando was represented, and honored, throughout the 2016 parade – with signs, banners, posters, t-shirts and more.Today, we pause to remember the lives lost,...