Performance space inviting all walks of the community

On Saturday, the Big Gay Picnic in Willowbranch Park and the Pride Celebration at Riverside Arts Market brought together members of the LGBTQ+ community and their allies to celebrate as Pride Month came to a close.

Founded in 2018 by Regina Livingston, Unspoken Treasure Society’s mission is to create a safe, supportive and celebratory space for transgender and gender non-conforming individuals, especially those of color.

News4JAX continues its Pride Month celebration by highlighting local groups that support Jacksonville’s unique and vibrant LGBTQ+ community, and today, the focus is on the Transgender Awareness Project (TAP), founded in Jacksonville by Paige Mahogany Parks.

The UNF Pride Club, which Orsini says is the only official LGBTQ+ resource on campus, has stepped up to fill the void. As part of Student Government, the club receives funding and access to campus spaces, allowing it to grow and serve students in new ways.

Hungary's LGBTQ+ community plans to hold a Pride march in Budapest on Saturday despite a government ban.

Stonewall Sports Jacksonville, which currently offers kickball, dodgeball, volleyball, cornhole and billiards leagues, focuses on philanthropy by partnering with local nonprofits to support their initiatives.

Fernandina Beach Pride has given out $36,000 in scholarship money to Nassau County high school seniors since 2019.

Local advocate Richard Ceriello has watched Jacksonville change greatly over the years when it comes to LGBTQ+ acceptance -- dating all the way back to the city's first Pride Celebration in Willowbranch Park 47 years ago.

PFLAG’s Jacksonville chapter is an organization that fosters family understanding and acceptance of LGBTQ+ people.

The 988 National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline will stop providing tailored support options to LGBTQ+ youth and young adults on July 17.

The Jacksonville LGBT Chamber of Commerce focuses on creating networks among LGBTQ+ and allied businesses. It is hosting a membership drive through Pride Month in June.

Founded in 1970, OneJax is a nonprofit that has promoted diversity as the foundation for a strong community for more than 50 years.

Next weekend, the annual “Big Gay Picnic” returns to Willowbranch Park in Riverside. The family and pet-friendly event, hosted by the Jacksonville LGBT Chamber of Commerce and the AIDS Memorial Project AMP, celebrates community and inclusivity.

The Pride Community Center of North Central Florida is based in Gainesville and serves 13 local counties, including Alachua, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Putnam and Union.

News4JAX is recognizing Pride Month this June by highlighting the organizations that serve the unique and vibrant LGBTQ+ community in Northeast Florida.

Through Our Lenses’ LGBTQ Black & Brown Film Festival 2025 will feature up-and-coming Black and Brown LGBTQ film artists, content creators, film producers and LGBTQ allies who are committed to raising awareness around various social topics pertaining to this community.

Since its inception, PFLAG Jacksonville has provided more than 345 scholarships totaling more than $430,000 to local students. The application window for 2025 is rapidly closing, so here's what students need to know.

Hundreds of people gathered at Central Park in Fernandina Beach to celebrate the fifth annual Pride Parade and Festival.

Tens of thousands of LGBTQ+ supporters have taken to the streets of Romania’s capital for its annual gay pride parade.

As World Pride wraps up this weekend in Washington D.

The legal aid group Lambda Legal has raised $285 million at a time when attacks on the rights of gay, intersex and transgender people have again intensified.

News4JAX is celebrating Pride Month this June by highlighting our unique and vibrant local LGBTQ+ community, and Wednesday, we’re shining a light on the LGBTQ Community Fund.

Jax River City Pride is a local 501 (c)(3) nonprofit all-volunteer organization that celebrates the LGBTQ+ community with a festival and parade each October in the Five Points area.

Jacksonville’s LGBTQ+ community and allies will march across the Acosta Bridge and the Main Street Bridge on Sunday to kick off Pride Month.

Pride Month, a global celebration of LGBTQ+ people, is starting this weekend in many places.

After years of sponsoring LGBTQ+ Pride events around the country, some companies are pulling their financial support.

LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. see lower social acceptance for transgender people than those who are lesbian, gay or bisexual, a new Pew Research Center poll found.

The World Pride 2025 welcome concert, with pop icon Shakira performing at Nationals Stadium, isn’t until May 31.

Iowa can continue to restrict instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in schools up through the sixth grade.

The Democratic controlled cities of Salt Lake City and Boise, Idaho, adopted new city flags this week that show support for LGBTQ+ people in defiance of new laws passed by their states’ Republican-controlled Legislatures.

A man has been convicted of stabbing to death a transgender actor and model in her apartment last year in Georgia.

Hungary’s parliament has passed an amendment to the constitution that allows the government to ban public events by LGBTQ+ communities.

A surge of grant cancellations hit researchers focused on the health of gay, lesbian and transgender people last week, as the Trump administration continues to target what it describes as ideologically driven science.

The Trump administration's cuts to foreign aid have defunded groups that campaign for LGBTQ+ communities and for democracy around the world.

Hungary’s ruling coalition is continuing its crackdown on the country’s LBGTQ+ community.

References to transgender people have been removed from a National Park Service website for the Stonewall National Monument.

Hundreds of LGBTQ+ couples in Thailand have experienced a life-changing occasion, registering their marriages legally on the first day a law took effect granting them the same rights as heterosexual couples.

It is a big day many in Thailand's LGBTQ+ community have long been waiting for, as couples celebrate a law giving them the same legal rights as married heterosexuals.

A national rights group says more U.S. companies are providing strong benefits and protections to LGBTQ+ employees despite conservative activists pressuring high-profile brands to stop participating in the organization’s annual workplace report card.

A Russian man arrested for allegedly running a travel agency for gay customers has been found dead in custody in Moscow.

A bar in Riverside closed Monday night after a fire broke out, according to the bar’s Facebook page.

Belarus is cracking down on its LGBTQ+ community, detaining and beating nearly three dozen of them in the last three months.

French authorities say they have charged seven individuals in connection with a cyberbullying campaign targeting Thomas Jolly, the artistic director behind the Paris Olympics’ opening and closing ceremonies.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is banning the use of “conversion therapy” on minors in Kentucky.

Georgia’s parliament has approved draft legislation curtailing LGBTQ+ rights, echoing laws adopted in neighboring Russia.

More than two decades ago, a national LGBTQ+ rights group decided to promote change by grading corporations on their workplace policies.

Texas Kadiri Moro is an unusual figure amid the LGBTQ+ rights activists in the coastal West African nation of Ghana.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz touted Vice President Kamala Harris’ record of defending LGBTQ+ rights, pledging to a supportive crowd that she will advance their cause if elected president.

A Pride march in Serbia’s capital of Belgrade has pressed for the demand that the government improve rights for the LGBTQ+ community who often face harassment and discrimination in the highly conservative Balkan country.

Do LGBTQ+ tourists have a green book-like system for staying safe while traveling in these politically precarious times.

A local business owner is speaking out against Visit Florida after the state-funded tourism agency removed the LGBTQ+ Travel section from its website.

Gay male couples tend to gravitate toward big cities, while lesbian couples prefer more pastoral smaller cities or towns.

Key West, Fort Lauderdale and Wilton Manors are among several Florida cities that have long been top U.S. destinations for LGBTQ+ tourists.

Hundreds of LGBTQ+ people and their supporters have rallied in Nepal’s capital during the annual Pride parade, the first one since gay couples were able to register same-sex marriages officially in the Himalayan nation.

A newly formed group in Duval County aims to advocate for members of the LGBTQ+ community and fight for their rights.

LGBTQ+ athletes, officials and observers have warned that a deluge of hateful comments misidentifying a female boxer in the Paris Olympics as transgender or a man could pose dangers for the LGBTQ+ community and female athletes.

A record number of athletes openly identifying as LGBTQ+ are competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics.

The City of Jacksonville is looking for people to join its LGBTQ+ advisory board.

A federal judge in Kansas has blocked a federal rule expanding anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ students from being enforced in four states and a patchwork of places elsewhere across the nation.

A group of more than 100 pro-LGBTQ+ protesters have gathered in Istanbul in an impromptu demonstration for Pride after the local governor banned their march.

Members of the LGBTQ+ community and their allies walked up the Acosta Bridge, smiling, waving, and holding items that would shine bright in the dark.

As Pride Month inches to a close, First Lady Jill Biden will host a celebration at the White House on Wednesday.

It was once half of the Stonewall Inn, the dive bar where a police raid exploded into a landmark moment for LGBTQ+ rights movement.

The Supreme Court is planning to weigh in on whether states can ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

With Pride Month in full gear, U.S. shoppers can find the usual merchandise many stores stock for the June celebration of LGBTQ+ culture and rights.

Lawmakers have approved legislation that would rename a New York City subway station in honor of the Stonewall riots.

PFLAG is the nation’s oldest and largest LGBTQ+ support, education, and advocacy group focused on the families and close loved ones of members of the LGBTQ+ community.

Pride Month is kicking off around the world with parades and festivals in cities large and small.

The iconic yellow and green of Brazil’s flag mixed with a sea of rainbow-colored tutus, hand fans and drag queen hairdos at Sunday’s LGBTQ+ pride parade in Sao Paulo.

Pride Month is kicking off around the world with parades and festivals in cities large and small.

While many of the migrants who reach Europe are escaping war, conflict and poverty, an increasing number are fleeing possible prison terms and death sentences because they are gay.

PFLAG Jacksonville will host its annual celebration in August to award scholarships to local LGBTQ+ individuals who are pursuing post-secondary or trade school education.

If a woman wins Mexico’s presidency during the June 2 elections, would she rule with gender in mind.

You see, it’s less about coming out, but about letting your people in and living authentically as exactly who God created you to be.

A report from a senior doctor in England says children who question their gender identity are being let down by lack of evidence and a toxic political debate.

Outrage was voiced locally and nationally after President Joe Biden issued a proclamation for Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31. It’s an observance held on the same date every year since 2009.

Lawmakers in Thailand’s lower house of Parliament have overwhelmingly approved a marriage equality bill that would make the country the first in Southeast Asia to legalize equal rights for marriage partners of any gender.

The rights of LGBTQ+ people continue to be in flux across the U.S. with a new flurry of developments.

A Japanese high court has ruled that denying same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and called for urgent government action to address the lack of any law allowing for such unions.

Florida's state government and LGBTQ+ advocates have settled a lawsuit challenging a law that bars teaching about sexual orientation and gender identity in public schools.

Students and teachers can discuss sexual orientation and gender identity in Florida classrooms, provided it's not part of instruction.

Russian authorities have adopted a slew of laws restricting fundamental human rights, including freedom of speech and assembly, as well as the rights of minorities and religious groups.

For decades, the plotline for LGBTQ+ activism in the U.S. was one of advances — often slow but moving forward.

Russian media and rights groups say the first publicly known cases have emerged of Russian authorities penalizing people under a court ruling that outlawed LGBTQ+ activism as extremism.

After a new state policy change that prohibits Floridians who are transgender from changing their driver’s licenses to match their current gender identity, there is a growing concern among the LGBTQ+ community that this policy may also apply to birth certificates.

Floridians who are transgender can no longer change their driver’s licenses to match their current gender identity because of a new policy by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.

A canceled middle school play indicates there is still a ways to go before there is full LGBTQ+ acceptance in Wyoming.

Florida Republicans advanced a bill Wednesday that would ban teachers from wearing a rainbow flag lapel pin in public schools and universities.

Authorities in Mexico say at least three transgender people were killed in the first two weeks of 2024, and rights groups are investigating two additional such cases.

Naphat Krutthai and Rasithaya Jindasri have been in a committed relationship for eight years, but only now they can consider getting married.

Pope Francis’ authorization for Catholic priests to offer blessings to same-sex couples is in many ways a recognition of what has been going on in some European parishes for years.

Massachusetts’ attorney general has filed a lawsuit accusing a white nationalist group of civil rights violations, saying it repeatedly subjected LGBTQ+ events and facilities sheltering migrant families to intimidation and harassment.

Russian security forces have raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization.

Russia’s Supreme Court has effectively outlawed LGBTQ+ activism, in the most drastic step against advocates of gay, lesbian and transgender rights in the increasingly conservative country.

More than 2,000 people have danced, sang and cheered in a gay pride parade in India’s capital, while also raising their concerns over India’s restrictive laws.

The Russian Justice Ministry says it has filed a lawsuit with the country’s Supreme Court to outlaw the LGBTQ “international public movement” as extremist.

Thousands have marched in Mexico’s capital demanding justice for an influential LGBTQ+ figure who was found dead at home in the city of Aguascalientes after receiving death threats.

Some librarians who've been fired as they take a stand against discrimination and banning books are turning to a federal civil-rights enforcement agency for help.

Hong Kong is set to launch Asia's first Gay Games on Friday, fostering hopes for wider LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Asian financial hub.