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...