2012 Central Florida Pictures of the Year

( Jacob Langston, Orlando Sentinel )

College student Zach Wahls, right, and Mark Anthony Dingbaum, left from Change.org carry petitions on in to the Orange County Convention Center to deliver them to a meeting or the Boy Scout of America on May 30, 2012. Eagle Scout Wahls was hand delivering about 275,000 petitions to the Boy Scouts of America in support of a lesbian mother in Ohio who was removed as a scout leader because she is gay. Wahls' parents are a lesbian couple and he gained national attention for speaking up for his parents in a public meeting in Iowa.