The Age of Queer Media
Turn on your TV, look at any channel or streaming service, and you’ll notice just how powerful LGBTQ voices in entertainment are. In 2018 alone, the queer community saw marked growth and improvements in not onl...
A Religious Buffet: Sampling Different Holiday Traditions
Atlanta is a melting pot of religions and ethnicities, all with a unique understanding of faith in a higher being. For Christians around the world, Christmas marks the birth of Jesus Christ. For other religions...
LGBTQ seniors face unique challenges
Aging can be a challenge for any community. But the lives of LGBTQ seniors bring distinct pleasures and pains. Or, as author Dave Singleton wrote, nearly half a century after Stonewall, “we’re still in the earl...
Griffin woman starts Atlanta LGBT Families Meetup
Toniqua Ward searched and searched for a support group of LGBT parents in the Atlanta area. She found plenty of opportunities for singles, couples and youths, but none was exactly what she was looking for. S...
LGBT Military: ‘AMPA’ becomes saving grace for ATL couple
RayShawn Chandler doesn’t recall exactly how she came across the American Military Partner Association’s (AMPA) website, but there is one thing she’s certain of—as the wife to deployed Army reservist Avery Chan...
A gift from Guatemala—how a Decatur gay couple became ‘PopDaddy’
When Ken Manford, 54, sat down to write the truth about his sexual orientation in a letter to his parents, he made certain they were prepared for the real possibility that he wouldn’t be able to provide an oppo...
The Wedding Issue: D’Lovely and Lisa
Despite being raised by married parents, D’Lovely Gibson knew early she wasn’t interested in glittering gowns, expensive decorations or any of the over-the-top hubbub attached to so many weddings. So when, i...
The Wedding Issue: Dale and Brooks
If you’re looking to meet your one-and-only, consider running a footrace. They’ll see you both clean and fresh-faced at the beginning and sweaty and drained at the end, so if they stick around it’s a good sign....
The Wedding Issue: Seven and Victor
Each year Victor L. Jones-Moore marks his birthday with a pair of designer sunglasses. His closest friends know of the tradition, so when one invited him to her department store job to choose a pair, he wasn’t ...
The Wedding Issue: Cindy and Courtney
People sometimes stumble across the love of their life in the most random of situations, and that’s what happened when Cindy Roddenberry and Courtney Sotherland met for a routine business lunch in 2011. The two...
Craig Washington: Scars to heal
They were dog tired that night arriving home after working the third shift at the warehouse. They laid their spent bodies down on the mattress in Anthony’s mother’s living room as they had done many times befor...