Patrick Saunders: Goodbye, for now
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...
Patrick Saunders: Killing plants softly with my song
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...
Atlanta gay bar Oscar’s owners buy Burkhart’s, plan name change
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. ...
Final efforts to pass anti-LGBTQ adoption bill fail as Georgia legislative session ends
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...
Patrick Saunders: Reliving the day love won
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...
Repairs finished on Atlanta rainbow crosswalks
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...
Legal experts: Hate crimes bill under consideration will cover transgender people
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 ...
Atlanta newcomer presenting queer art showcase at Revelator Coffee
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...
Patrick Saunders: The exclusion that never was
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 ...
Stacey Evans makes pitch for LGBTQ vote for Georgia governor
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...
LGB-inclusive hate crimes bill gets new life, passes out of House committee
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 ...