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This undated photo provided by the Illinois Department of Correction shows Deon “Strawberry” Hampton. The transgender woman serving a 10-year sentence in Illinois for burglary has been moved from a men’s to a women’s prison in one of the first cases of its kind in the state. Lawyers for Hampton announced her transfer Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018, after year-long resistance from the Illinois Department of Corrections. (Illinois Department of Correction via AP)

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Transgender inmate gets rare transfer to female prison

A transgender woman serving a 10-year sentence for burglary has been moved to a women's prison in what could be a first for Illinois.

A middle-aged male former employee at Disney Cruise Line says in a lawsuit that his younger female manager created a hostile work environment by bullying him about his age, bragging about sexual conquests and passing him over for promotions.

Miami Herald LGBTQ issues reporter Steve Rothaus accepts the Eddy McIntyre Community Service Award at the 20th annual National LGBTQ Task Force Miami Gala on Nov. 19, 2016.

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A look back and ahead: Herald’s Steve Rothaus receives National LGBTQ Task Force award

On Nov. 19, 2016, the National LGBTQ Task Force honored Miami Herald LGBTQ issues reporter Steve Rothaus with the 2016 Eddy McIntyre Community Service Award at its 20th annual Gala Miami. This is the transcript of his speech, which he presented to more than 700 attendees at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach.

Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski offers a Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Miami in 2017.

Community Voices

Wenski discusses 60th anniversary — and future — of Archdiocese of Miami

Archbishop Thomas Wenski discusses the 60th anniversary of the Archdiocese of Miami — and its future.

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Transgender New Hampshire state reps poised to make history

Two New Hampshire politicians will make history next week when they're sworn in as the state's first openly transgender women to serve in the State House.

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Gay South Florida archive

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Watch now in its entirety: 'The Day It Snowed In Miami'

An Emmy-winning documentary that traces the political activism behind an equal-rights statute in Miami, and how it galvanized the gay rights movement in Florida and beyond.

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Watch videos, view photos documenting the arrival of same-sex marriage in South Florida

The Miami Herald has fully documented the arrival of same-sex marriage in Florida, including several videos and photo galleries of nuptials in Miami-Dade, Monroe and Broward counties.

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South Florida LGBTQ events calendar

An up-to-date calendar kept by the The Hub at the LGBT Visitor Center in South Beach.

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This Oct. 12, 1954, photo shows The Jungle, one of Commerce Street’s better-known bars, in Nashville, Tenn. On Friday, Dec. 21, 2018, the Metro Historical Commission is unveiling a plaque recognizing it and Juanita’s as Nashville’s first gay bars.

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Nashville’s first gay bars remembered with historical marker

On a wild stretch of Commerce Street, next door to Ira's Barber Shop and just blocks from Ryman Auditorium, stood a pair of unique bars surrounded by a slew of beer dives.

In this Dec. 1, 2018, photo, Pink Pistols member Eric Inman, an NRA-certified pistol instructor, fires an IWI Tavor at Bill’s Gun Shop and Range in Circle Pines, Minn. The gun range provides safe space for LGBT gun rights group.

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Gun range provides safe space for LGBT gun rights group

Circle Pines gun range provides safe space for LGBT gun rights group.

Pride flags line a Barrington, Illinois, neighborhood as a sign of support for gay couple Casey Handal and Zadette Rosado, who say their rainbow LGBT flag was stolen and then replaced with an American banner.

National

Someone stole a gay couple’s pride flag. Now the neighborhood is draped in rainbows

Pride flags line a Barrington, Illinois, neighborhood as a sign of support for gay couple Casey Handal and Zadette Rosado, who say their rainbow LGBT flag was stolen and then replaced with an American banner.

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Couple looks back 5 years after same-sex marriage ban lifted

Many Utah couples are celebrating their fifth anniversary this month and looking back on their rush to wed after a federal judge had become the first in the country to strike down a state ban on gay marriage.

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2011 file photo, holding up a gay pride flag, transsexual Wendy Iriepa, who had a sex change, rides to her wedding on a classic car in Havana, Cuba. Cuba said on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018 that language promoting the legalization of gay marriage will be removed from the draft of a new constitution after widespread popular rejection of the idea.

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Cuba eliminates gay marriage language from new constitution

Cuba says language promoting the legalization of gay marriage will be removed from the draft of a new constitution after widespread popular rejection of the idea.

MIAMI, FL -- TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2018-- Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg speaks about the important of small businesses while she visits Miami Tuesday, December 18, 2018. (Maria Alejandra Cardona / For the Miami Herald)

Miami-Dade County

Sheryl Sandberg, back in Miami, says Facebook overlooked potential for abuse

Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg set to meet Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez during Miami visit Tuesday. Facebook facing criticism for oppo research on George Soros amid social-media privacy wars.

A sign marks the entrance to a gender-neutral restroom at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vt.

LGBTQ South Florida

Principal told trans student ‘you freak me out,’ barricaded him in bathroom, ACLU says

A transgender boy at Liberty High School in Clarksburg, West Virginia, was barricaded in a bathroom and yelled at by assistant principal Lee Livengood, who told him “you freak me out,” the ACLU says.

FILE - In this Monday, June 4, 2018, file photograph, baker Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, manages his shop after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that he could refuse to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple because of his religious beliefs did not violate Colorado’s anti-discrimination law in Lakewood, Colo. Attorneys for Philliups are in federal court in Denver Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018, to seek to overturn a Colorado Civil Rights Commission ruling that the baker discriminated against a transgender person by refusing to make a cake to mark the person’s transition from male to female.

Business

Colorado baker back in court over 2nd LGBT bias allegation

Attorneys for a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple on religious grounds say the state is punishing him again for not baking a cake celebrating a gender transition.

Ken Allen stole a Gay-Straight Alliance poster from Smithton Middle School in Columbia, Missouri, in a “fit of rage” because he says the club shouldn’t be allowed. The school board declined to press charges.

National

In ‘fit of rage,’ dad tore down Gay-Straight Alliance poster at Missouri middle school

Ken Allen stole a Gay-Straight Alliance poster from Smithton Middle School in Columbia, Missouri, in a “fit of rage” because he says the club shouldn’t be allowed. The school board declined to press charges.

Politics

Miami’s ‘big bad she-wolf’ finishes a 29-year run in Congress

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s foreign policy work, inspired by a childhood in Cuba, will continue long after she leaves office. The Miami Republican is known for her sunny disposition and anti-Trump message.

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