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Mayor Bottoms Designates Atlanta Eagle as Historic Landmark

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced that the Atlanta Eagle building on Ponce de Leon Avenue has been designated a historic landmark. The Department of City Planning’s Historic Preservation Studio an...

Atlanta Scores Perfect 100 on Municipal Equality Index, Only Georgia City to Do So

Atlanta has received a perfect score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign’s Municipal Equality Index (MEI) 2020, the only Georgia municipality to do so. The MEI examines how LGBTQ-inclusive municipal laws, po...

Trans Woman Ashley Diamond Sues Georgia Department of Corrections

Ashley Diamond, a Black transgender woman represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center, has sued the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) for the second time for it...

Mayor Bottoms Appoints Malik Brown as Director of LGBTQ Affairs, Additional Members to LGBTQ Board

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has created the City’s first-ever Director of LGBTQ Affairs position and has appointed additional members to the Mayor’s LGBTQ Advisory Board. City of Atlanta’s LGBTQ Affai...

Trans Man Wins Homecoming King

The 2020–2021 school year is sure to go down in history. For high school seniors everywhere, this was not the way they envisioned spending their last year of school — virtually and missing the traditional activ...

Man Dies at Unofficial Atlanta Pride Circuit Party

A man who has been unidentified died this weekend at an unofficial Atlanta Pride party. The man was unconscious in the basement of BJ Roosters during Xion, a circuit party lasting from 3-7am Sunday morning (...

Atlanta Eagle to Close and Relocate

The Atlanta Eagle will be closing its current location on Ponce de Leon Ave. later this year and relocating. Owner Richard Ramey announced that the bar would be closing via Instagram and Facebook live. Accor...

Atlanta Pride Online

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Atlanta Pride Committee (APC) has moved its annual Pride celebration completely online. Even though Pride looks a little different this year, APC has announced a div...

A Discussion on Trans Activism

On September 27 of last year, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced a new initiative to “significantly expand its work dedicated to justice for the transgender community.” According to the announcement, the...

Atlanta Pride Announces Highlights of 2020 Virtual Programming

The Atlanta Pride Committee (APC) announced highlights today for their 2020 virtual festival. Earlier this year, due to concerns around COVID-19, the APC announced that the 50th anniversary festival would be...

Rev. Kim Jackson Nominated for Up and Coming Politician of the Year Award

Atlanta Rev. Kim Jackson has been nominated for LGBTQ Nation’s Up and Coming Politician of the Year Award. The award honors the best LGBTQ politicians who are in a bid for local public office. Rev. Jackson i...

A time of reckoning: Atlanta's LGBTQ community addresses racism problem

Biden Takes Over, Signs LGBTQ Executive Order

Biden Announces Appointment of Trans Woman Dr. Rachel Levine to HHS

Biden, Harris Inauguration Events Mostly Virtual

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Gay Couple Directs Thriller ‘Antebellum’ While Novice Feature Director Helms Lesbian-themed ‘Two of Us’

Black History Reading List

Pandemic Brings Decrease in LGBTQ Representation on TV, GLAAD Report Finds

Mayor Bottoms Designates Atlanta Eagle as Historic Landmark

Atlanta Scores Perfect 100 on Municipal Equality Index, Only Georgia City to Do So

Trans Woman Ashley Diamond Sues Georgia Department of Corrections

Mayor Bottoms Appoints Malik Brown as Director of LGBTQ Affairs, Additional Members to LGBTQ Board

Trans Man Wins Homecoming King

Man Dies at Unofficial Atlanta Pride Circuit Party

Atlanta Eagle to Close and Relocate

Atlanta Pride Online

A Discussion on Trans Activism

Atlanta Pride Announces Highlights of 2020 Virtual Programming

Rev. Kim Jackson Nominated for Up and Coming Politician of the Year Award

Win, Lose & Live: Reunion with a Crush

History Repeats Itself

Gay Couple Directs Thriller ‘Antebellum’ While Novice Feature Director Helms Lesbian-themed ‘Two of Us’

As Horrifying as the Attack on Our Capitol Was, It Is a Comfort to Know Technology Will Hold Them Accountable

BLM Protests and the Capitol Siege Aren’t the Same

A Look at BLM in France

Black History Reading List

Shifting the Story Around Black Gay Men

Repaying the Backbone of America: The Case for Reparations After Slavery

How LGBTQ and Civil Rights Came Together with Two People