The full effect of Jason Collins' decision to come out might not be known for decades, but tangible evidence of its importance has trickled out over the past few weeks. Hollywood Hills high school football captain Leo Washington, who came out this week after finding inspiration in Collins, is the latest hero in the revolution. 

Former Florida Governor Charlie Crist may have been so against marriage equality at one point in his career that he supported an amendment to Florida's constitution banning the civil right, but that's all in the past now, he says. 

What else does Charlie C have to say about his dramatic evolution toward the right side of history?

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Sh*t's gettin' real, y'all!

Following South Florida Gay News publisher Norm Kent's public lashing of Adam Lambert, his Associate Publisher Jason Parsley (who wrote the original story that apparently caused Kent and his partner to puke) has written a rebuttal, "In Defense Of Adam Lambert."

Check out what Parsley has to say after the jump!

Fallon Fox is officially free to fight in Florida now that she's been cleared of allegations that she lied when applying for her Florida license.

The MMA fighter recently came out as transgender and there have been questions raised about whether she'd previously been licensed to fight in  California (and whether she intentionally misled the Florida licensing group). 

More after the jump.

Florida Senator Bill Nelson, one of the last remaining Democratic Senate holdouts in the move to support marriage equality, has finally seen the light. 

Check out what he had to say after the jump!

Good As You provided this clip from Florida pastor Gordon Godfrey, Jr. in which he preaches to his flock about the unacceptable nature of homosexuality. He asks the question, "Where did we go wrong?"

It's just a reminder of the garbage that's being fed to people from the pulpit on a daily basis. 

Also for someone that's supposedly filtering himself from all things gay, he's certainly got an extensive knowledge of Modern Family, newscaster Sam Champion and Lady Gaga...

More after the jump!

Though the gayest U.S. state happens to be whichever one we're in at the time, Gallup has a different idea thanks to a massive 200,000 person study. While the rainbow might shine brightest in D.C., Gallup notes that these kinds of studies always include the caveat of people possibly not answering truthfully. Anyway, Gallup's results are after the jump!

Florida's Lake County School Board members are acting more like kindergartners than adults in their consideration of allowing a gay-straight alliance in their district. 

There will be an extra sense of celebration in the air at Gay Days at Disney World this year now that the international destination has welcomed George Kalogridis on as its new president. 

How witty.

The Florida Family Association, a won't-stop-at-anything chapter of the AFA hate group, mustered up the cleverest banner they could in an attempt to offend kids in Tacoma, Washington. 

The stamp date on this video of a Florida college student's stripping counter-protest is 2011 but it was finally "discovered" today and is making the blog rounds on its way to viral status. Check it out after the jump!

Virulently anti-gay Florida House Rep. Allen West has conceded defeat in an extremely close race against 29-year-old Democrat Patrick Murphy.

Over the past two weeks early votes in the contested district have been recounted and West has conceded that he can't surmount Murphy's lead. 

See West's statement after the jump.