An 18 year old Florida schoolgirl is being treated like a pedophile after the parents of her 15 year old girlfriend went to school authorities and the police.

Sebastian River High School student Kaitlyn Hunt was charged with two felony counts of ‘lewd and lascivious battery on a child 12 – 16 years of age’ in February over her consensual relationship with her unnamed girlfriend who was a member of the same school basketball team.

Former Florida governor Charlie Crist has announced his support of gay marriage.

The Republican-turned-Democrat took to his Facebook page this week to say he supports marriage equality in the swing vote state.

Crist wrote: ‘Some great news: On Tuesday, Delaware became the 11th state to allow marriage equality. And just a few days ago, Rhode Island adopted a similar measure, which followed victories last fall in Maine, Maryland and Washington.

The publisher of South Florida Gay News says he went 'ballistic' when he found out his staff had featured an interview with Adam Lambert on the cover of the newspaper while he was on leave.

The story, which broke the news that Lambert and his boyfriend had broken up, went viral and caused the paper's website to repeatedly crash due to the surge in traffic.

Adam Lambert is a single man again.

The Grammy nominee and American Idol runner up says he and Sauli Koskinen, a Finnish entertainment reporter, television host and radio personality, have split up.

'It’s been kind of on its way out in the last couple of months,' Lambert tells South Florida Gay News.

A gay man in Florida does not just love mermaids - it’s his life.

Eric Ducharme, 22, is the subject of the latest TLC documentary ‘My Crazy Obsession’.

In the trailer for the episode, he is seen swimming in a natural spring while wearing a fish tail of his own creation.

He says: ‘My name is Eric Ducharme, and I’m obsessed with mermaids.

‘I eat, breathe and sleep mermaids. It’s a lifestyle - it’s my lifestyle. It’s the path in life that I have chosen.

US Senator Marco Rubio, a potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate, said Thursday (14 March) that being against gay marriage doesn't make him a bigot.

Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland, Rubio said: 'Just because I believe states should have the right to define marriage in a traditional way does not make me a bigot.'

He also said he feels judged for some other positions including being anti-abortion and for not buying into the science behind climate change.

Reykjavík or Miami Beach? It’s a tough choice but that’s the decision that the World Out Games have been grappling with today at their meeting in Antwerp.

After site visits to both cities, delegates from as far afield as Los Angeles, Mexico, Manchester, Australia and Tonga gathered together for final presentations, deliberations, and a vote - which has ultimately gone the way of Miami Beach.

At least 75 leading Republicans signed a brief to be submitted to the US supreme court aruging that gay marriage is a constitutional right.

According to The New York Times, who got a copy of the document, signatories include top advisers to former president George W. Bush, four former governors and two members of congress.

A man who murdered a gay man in Cincinnati in 1985 will die in 2015 after spending thirty years on death row.

Robert Van Hook met David Self in a Cincinnati gay bar and invited him back to his apartment where he strangled and then stabbed him to death before fleeing the state for Florida.

Van Hook later claimed to be temporarily insane at the time he killed Self but did not deny killing him.

When that failed he appealed the verdict, arguing that his lawyers had failed to adequately represent him.

Walt Disney World has a new president - and he's openly gay.

George Kalogridis began his new position as head of the Orlando, Florida, resort last Friday (1 February).

He's now the top boss of approximately 66,000 employees at a resort where he began working back in 1971 as a busboy at one of the theme park's resorts. He was just 17 and was hired before the then brand-new theme park had even opened.

International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics (IGLA) is the organization that brings the world’s LGBT aquatics clubs together, sharing information and knowledge as well as staging an annual championships for LGBT competitors in swimming, diving, open water, synchronized swimming, and water polo.

We caught up with Jason Stone, head of the organizing committee for IGLA2013 to take a look at plans for this year’s event which will be held in the US city of Seattle.

Sam Champion, weather anchor of ABC's Good Morning America, officially married Rubem Robierb in New York City last Friday (21 December) but that was only the first step in the wedding march for the couple.

They have headed down to Miami, Florida, where they will have a New Year's Eve ceremony with a more festive, party atmosphere.

Miami is Robierb's hometown and it was at a New Year's Eve party that the couple first met.

The ceremony will be conducted by MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts, a fellow newlywed.