When I came out about 15 years ago, I would read the local gay press and stare at the bylines, thinking about how rewarding it would be to write about the LGBTQ community for a living. Those writers were kind o...
I do not have a green thumb. I kill flowers, plants, you name it. There's no excuse really, seeing as my mom is a certified master gardener and she volunteers at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. I inherited many t...
The owners of Midtown Atlanta gay bar Oscar's have bought Burkhart's, the longtime Ansley Square bar that closed in February after a controversy involving racist Facebook posts made by the bar's then-owner. ...
Last-ditch efforts to pass an anti-LGBTQ adoption bill failed on the final day of the 2018 Georgia legislative session on Thursday, and for the fifth straight year, the session ended with the state avoiding pas...
June 26, 2015 was a Friday that would turn out to be the best end-of-the-week I've ever experienced. It was, of course, the day the U.S. Supreme Court overturned same-sex marriage bans nationwide and made marri...
Atlanta's rainbow crosswalks after the city's resurfacing job. (Photo via Celeste Holmes) Order has been restored at 10th and Piedmont. A Feb. 27 resurfacing job by the city of Atlanta's Department of Pu...
When a hate crimes bill passed out of a Georgia House committee earlier this month, it was seen as a pivotal step toward finally getting Georgia to join the 45 other states that have similar legislation on the ...
When artist Cameron Lee and his husband, social media influencer, blogger and creative curator Rigel Cable, moved to Atlanta via Hollywood last summer, it didn't take long for them to make their mark on the sce...
This was about to be a very different editorial until a late Tuesday afternoon call, but we'll hold off on that for now. So, I was covering a House committee meeting last week as hate crimes legislation was ...
Last October wasn't the first time Stacey Evans marched in the Atlanta Pride parade, but it was the first time doing it with her four-year-old daughter, Ashley, who rode her bike through the route. Evans sai...
Three LGBTQ-inclusive hate crimes bills were proposed this year in the Georgia Legislature, but none of them passed from one chamber to the next by Crossover Day last week, making them effectively dead for the ...