{"id":199353,"date":"2026-03-20T16:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199353\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T16:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:17:10","slug":"queen-latifah-joins-florida-aids-walk-amid-anti-pride-funding-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199353\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Latifah Joins Florida Aids Walk Amid &#8220;Anti-Pride&#8221; Funding Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Committees\/billsummaries\/2026\/html\/1134\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Anti-Pride&#8221; bill <\/a>is headed to the governor&#8217;s desk and prohibits local governments from funding employees, contractors, and others to promote DEI initiatives.  <\/p>\n<p>Former North Miami city councilman and member of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation board, Scott Galvin, says Saturday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridaaidswalk.org\/site\/SPageNavigator\/homepage.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fort Lauderdale AIDS Walk<\/a> may be impacted by this new bill if it goes into effect in January of 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Galvin says tomorrow&#8217;s event is fully funded by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, but there is a financial logistical assist from the city of Fort Lauderdale because to close down roads and guide traffic.<\/p>\n<p>He adds that huge economic drivers like the Key West Fantasy Fest, may have to change the name of the event to Halloween Fest to avoid cancellation. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 2026 Florida AIDS Walk &amp; Music Festival at South Beach Park on Fort Lauderdale Beach celebrates 20 years of impact with a 5K walk and live music.&#8221; says Galvin. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The event headliner is Queen Latifah who will help raise funds for local HIV and AIDS service organizations.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The so-called &#8220;Anti-Pride&#8221; bill is headed to the governor&#8217;s desk and prohibits local governments from funding employees, contractors,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[4151,92196,249,92194,251,250,26874,92193,157,92195],"class_list":["post-199353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-dei","tag-florida-aids-walk","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-aids-walk","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-governments","tag-latifah","tag-pride","tag-scott-galvin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}