It was modern-day puppy love until police got involved.

Kaitlyn Hunt, an 18-year-old senior at Sebastian River High School in Indian River County, had been dating a 15-year-old girl through most of the school year, but when she turned 18 the other girl's parents called police and had Hunt charged with sex crimes.

Hunt's mother believes the other parents' disapproval with her daughter's sexuality might be to blame.

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Jason Collins mentioned his former teammate and current Miami Heat player Mike Miller yesterday in his big coming-out story in Sports Illustrated by hoping that Miller might react to the news by talking about how he enjoyed being his teammate and remembering fondly the time he sold him a dog.

Today, Miller responded to the news by talking about how he enjoyed being Collins' teammate and reminiscing about the time he sold him a dog.

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Earlier today, NBA player Jason Collins made history as the first active athlete in a major American sports league to come out as a gay. Just hours later, Miami Dolphins wide receiver Mike Wallace was just the latest athlete to come out as an idiot.

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Forgive Bill Nelson for taking his time. After all, the issue of gay marriage had nothing to do with his preferred issues of space and snakes.

Ever a moderate, Nelson had stuck to a low-key position supporting civil unions. Apparently the 70-year-old senator finally realized he was just one of seven Democratic senators left to not support same-sex marriage, so last night he penned of a brief editorial in The Tampa Bay Times.

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While the United States awaits the Supreme Court's decision on dual cases that could affect the future of gay marriage in this country, Uruguay is set to become the second nation in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage. The country's Senate passed a bill yesterday 23-8 that updated the country's marriage and family laws to open up the institution to gay couples.

See also:
- Argentina Becomes First Latin American Country to Approve Gay Marriage
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A bill that would create a statewide domestic partnership registry open to same-sex couples passed its first committee in the Florida Senate yesterday. Though the bill still has a long way to go, the vote was the first in the Florida Legislature that recognized rights for same-sex couples.

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Financial guru Suze Orman may be packing up her partner and her jacket collection and moving to a state that recognizes gay marriage if the Supreme Court overturns DOMA.

Orman currently lives in Fort Lauderdale with partner Kathy Travis, but the tax breaks that could come with federally recognized marriage could entice her to move elsewhere. Florida leaders should be concerned that Orman may not be the only wealthy gay person to do so.

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If you've been on Facebook in the past 24 hours, you've surely noticed the explosion of people using a red version of the Human Rights Campaign's logo to express their support for gay marriage as the U.S. Supreme Court hears two potentially landmark cases. That's very nice and all, but the Supreme Court is, by design, not particularly swayed by the public. And unless its ruling in the Prop 8 case is surprisingly wide (which very few watchers expect), the decisions will do nothing to immediately help gay couples in Florida.

However, their are currently bills in both the Florida State Senate and House that would create a statewide domestic partnership registry. Like every other year they've been introduced, they're likely to die a quiet death in committee.

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John Stemberger is perhaps Florida's best-known homophobe. He was deeply involved in Florida's effort to ban gay marriage and runs the Florida Family Policy Council, a group that opposes just about any bit of legal protection for the LGBT community. Now he's decided to start a separate group solely to keep openly gay members out of Boy Scouts and in typical Stemberger fashion is using fear-mongering rhetoric straight out of the 1950s. 
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While several other states are grappling with the idea of same-sex marriage, down here in Florida, we still have problems passing a statewide domestic partnership bill. One would think it wouldn't be quite so controversial considering more than a third of Floridians already live in counties that have established local domestic partnership registries, and polls show a vast majority of Floridians favor the most basic form of recognition for same-sex couples.

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