Atlanta Pride: Great and Growing
There’s a lot to celebrate this Pride season. Pride organizers are nearly halfway through an ambitious five-year strategic plan they hope will create a more active, diverse, and fiscally stronger Pride organiza...
The Guide to Pride
With its eye-catching floats, huge crowds, and traffic-snarling route, it’s easy for a newbie to think the parade is all there is to Atlanta Pride. In actuality, Atlanta Pride is an amalgam of several events th...
Recognizing Stress in Our Little Buddies
The positive effect that pets can have on stress is well-documented. One need only curl up with a puppy after a hard day at work to experience the benefits firsthand. The effect of stress on your pets, however,...
Gay Atlanta concierge has six tips to spruce up your space
It can happen to the most stylish of us. One day you take an honest look at your home and realize your couch is stained, the bookshelf is leaning and your drapes have seen better days. That’s right — your forme...
Not our jam: How to bypass the traffic, Atlanta-style
Atlanta’s growing again. Whether it’s luxury apartments in Buckhead, the judicial complex coming up near the Statehouse, or merely the neverending creep of Brookhaven, projects to expand the city are moving at ...
Your Wedding Day: Jennifer & Franchesca O’Connell
Imagine it: Girl kisses girl at a New Year’s Eve party, a whirlwind romance follows and they exchange vows in a spectacular ceremony three years later, riding off into the sunset secure in a near-perfect love t...
Queer Georgia state representative pushes PrEP bill
Georgia could launch a three-year statewide pilot program to distribute free pre-exposure HIV prophylaxis — or PrEP — to men and women at high risk for infection before 2021, under legislation working its way t...
Work It! Baker Dude Orran Booher ups Atlanta’s cupcake game
Cupcakes. They’re sweet, colorful, fun to hold — and can often be pretty gross. Well, maybe not that bad, but darn close, said Atlanta baker Orran Booher, a Caribbean transplant who has made it a personal go...
Is boxing 2018’s workout of the year?
In a sprawling Buford Highway gym tucked between discount stores, men and women routinely shed their street clothes and transform into masters of the squared circle. Sporting leggings and gym shorts, fancy a...
Catching Up with former ‘Mayor of East Atlanta’ Jimmie Scott Robinson
Newly arrived in Atlanta in 1996, Jimmie Scott Robinson had a simple goal: He wanted to date openly, party thoroughly and basically have the type of carefree, rollicking life a man could only find in the LGBT m...
Positive Impact Health Centers to debut new facility on World AIDS Day
In the end, the call to save Robert Buntin’s life came from his beloved pet cats. Devastated by news that he was HIV-positive, Buntin, then 35, had spent a year spiraling into a drug addiction he’d quietly h...