Political observers say Republican candidates are using transgender people as a classic “wedge issue” as 2022 campaigns heat up.

It was way back in 1977 when Ruth Shack, then a Metro-Dade Commissioner, introduced and helped pass a measure to protect homosexuals from discrimination.

Ever since the Stonewall riots in 1969, there have been many achievements for the LGBTQ community. "I was an 18-year-old kid outside the Stonewall," Mark Segal, 68, told Local 10s Christian De La Rosa. Segal said he was outside the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969, when the LGBTQ community pushed back against police oppression, catapulting the fight for gay rights. High-profile opponent Anita Bryant said the LGBTQ community was not deserving of those protections. But it wound up a historic win for gay rights, as commissioners approved the ordinance 5 to 3.