James Franco will be attending the 15th Annual Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, where he'll be honored with the HBO Latin America Ally Award for his career accomplishments and his unwavering support of the LGBT community.

His film Interior. Leather Bar., co-directed with Travis Mathews will also have its Southeast premiere at the festival. 

More after the jump.

Kobe Bryant got lots of love this week when he called out a Tweeter for using anti-gay language. 

Now a Florida columnist is asking the Miami Heat's LeBron James to jump on the pro-LGBT train. 

Kobe and the Lakers can't get all the love from the gays, right??

More after the jump.

Ozzie Guillen, the controversy-prone manager of the Miami Marlins, has rushed to defend Blue Jay Yunel Escobar's blatant use of a Spanish anti-gay slur on the MLB field and chalked it up to a difference of culture.

The Days just got Gayer in Florida!

After a historic campaign, on Tuesday night David Richardson officially won the House seat in District 113 to represent Miami Beach as Florida's first openly gay lawmaker!

It takes a lot to get our lazy (but gorgeous, mind you) booties up on a Monday for some house cleaning, but hate group leader Bryan Fischer's latest anti-gay "comparison" has us dusting off the "D-Bag of the Day" crown to toss upon that discarded muskrat fur masquerading as hair. 

Why mess with perfection?

Around this time last year we devoted an Instinct lunch break to lusting after pics of Criminal Minds star Shemar Moore shirtless on a Miami Beach. Guess Shemar knows that no shirt + the Miami sun x a beach + paparazzi = lots of blog loving because the scorching hot actor gave us Moore of our favorite kind of math this week! (More pics after the jump.)

Now this is our kind of American reunion. Marky Wahlberg reunited the camera lens with his underwear-wrapped goods during a package-revealing scene on the shoot of Pain & Gain in Miami. Revisit the basket that helped a generation of adolescent boys realize they were born that way with more behind-the-scenes pics of Mark proving that he's still as hot as he was in his muscle twink years, after the jump!

Isn't Mark Wahlberg just the best dad?

No, really. Father of the year.

What?

More pics after the jump.

Former Florida public school teacher, Shawn Loftis, who you may know as ex-gay porn star Collin O’Neal, was fired in 2011 after his gay porn past was revealed.

LA Weekly reports that that decision has been overturned, and Loftis is once again able to apply for full-time teaching positions.

More after the jump.

Focus on the Family poster-boy Tim Tebow was so pumped about his win against the Miami Dolphins on Sunday that the Broncos quarterback apparently forgot about his whole queasiness with man-on-man action. Details follow.

The effort to repeal the nasty "Defense of Marriage Act" is now officially a bipartisan battle as the first Republican to join the cause is announced. So, who is she?

Should it matter that a teacher once had a career in porn? What if he still did? Miami-Dade County Public Schools seems to think so. Get the details and weigh in after the jump.