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11/17/2025

Bake, Shop and Celebrate! Sweeten your season with local "Holiday Baking Championship" contestant Jean Carlos De Araujo's recipes, find the perfect gift ideas, experience magic with the Zubrick Magic Theatre and discover local festivities.

Read the 2025 Holiday Guide at https://shorturl.at/hFnfB

11/17/2025

The inaugural Q Fest at LGBT+ Center Orlando - The Center provided a crucial platform for LGBTQ+ artists, featuring films, theatre and the popular “Just Dempsey!” show. The event celebrated the community's creative power.

For four days, Q Fest, an interactive q***r theatre and film festival celebrated LGBTQ+ stories and artists at The LGBT+ Center Orlando.

11/17/2025

Following regional neighbors like Russia, Kazakh lawmakers advanced an anti-LGBTQ "propaganda" bill. The measure bans media content and is expected to be signed by the President.

Lawmakers in Kazakhstan on Nov. 12, advanced a bill that would ban so-called LGBTQ propaganda in the country.

11/17/2025

Equality Florida Executive Director Nadine Smith will step down in January 2026 after 28 years of leading the LGBTQ+ organization to become president and CEO of Color Of Change.

Equality Florida announced Executive Director Nadine Smith will step down in January after 28 years of leading the LGBTQ+ organization.

11/17/2025

Millions were spent on transphobic attack ads, but results in Virginia, New Jersey and New York show anti-trans messaging failed to sway voters.

Activists and political observers say the major Democratic victories on the East Coast last week prove anti-transgender attacks are no longer effective.

11/17/2025

GIVEAWAY! Win a luxury photography session package from Orlando's newest photographer, Dylan Todd Photography !

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11/17/2025

Watermark Out News Social Media Coordinator Kay Yingling celebrated her birthday over the weekend! Please join us in wishing her a very happy belated.

11/17/2025

Local LGBTQ+ advocates said a powerful grinding machine was used to rip apart the asphalt pavement under the crosswalk to “make a point.”

Salisbury, Md. removed a rainbow crosswalk from a prominent intersection across from the mayor’s office and the city’s public library.

11/15/2025

Watermark Out News is ready for "Dreaming Together" from Central Florida Community Arts!

11/14/2025

Democrat David Jolly wants to end Florida's culture wars as its next governor. The gubernatorial candidate discussed his political evolution, LGBTQ+ rights and more with Watermark Out News on the campaign trail.

Read more at https://tinyurl.com/WONJolly.

11/14/2025

Watermark Out News is at Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin for the Food and Wine Classic!

11/14/2025

In Ken Burns' new PBS documentary “The American Revolution," Mark Segal says "LGBTQ+ people are not only erased but defamed, reduced to a caricatured trope instead of being recognized as real participants in shaping our country’s history."

Mark Segal shares his thoughts on Ken Burns’ new PBS documentary “The American Revolution."