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Advocates Say Georgia’s New Hate Crimes Law is Tainted by Police Protection Bill

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed a landmark hate crimes bill into law on Friday (June 26), which includes language protecting LGBTQ victims, but a police protection bill passed alongside it may be doing more ...

Black, Trans Sex Workers Face Police Violence

The criminalization of sex work in Georgia endangers the most marginalized in the queer community. Black, transgender sex workers face criminalization resulting in systematic police harassment all too freque...

Gerald Bostock ‘Ecstatic’ Over Supreme Court Title VII Ruling

The surviving plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court case that determined whether the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bans anti-LGBTQ discrimination in the workplace on Monday said he is “ecstatic” by the justices’ rulin...

Jon Ossoff Wins Democratic Senate Primary

LGBTQ ally Jon Ossoff has won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate and will face off against Republican incumbent David Perdue in November. When Georgia Voice originally reported Tuesday’s primary results ...

Georgia Primary Results Stream In After Voting Chaos

Last updated: June 10 at 10:50am With roughly 93 percent of precincts reporting, Joe Biden and others have emerged as the clear winners of yesterday’s primary elections. Results from Georgia’s primary ele...

LGBTQ People in Georgia Prisons Face Discrimination, COVID-19 Pandemic

People in Georgia prisons face extensive overcrowding combined with limited access to frequently inadequate medical care, leading many to worry that the pandemic is spreading rampantly in prisons where there is...

Voting Local in the 2020 Primaries

After being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Georgia’s in-person primaries will be held on Tuesday, June 9. While many consider the primaries to be the chance to choose their preferred presidential nomin...

Georgia Equality and OUT Georgia Business Alliance Announce New Partnership

Georgia Equality and OUT Georgia Business Alliance have announced a new partnership to better serve and represent Georgia’s LGBTQ business owners and professionals. This new partnership, announced on Monday ...

HRC Calls for Georgia to Pass Hate Crimes Law after Murder of Ahmaud Arbery

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is calling for Georgia to institute a hate crimes law after the shooting and murder of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery. Arbery, a black man, was jogging in his neighborhood in Brunswi...

Every Georgia County Now Has At Least One Confirmed COVID-19 Infection

Every one of Georgia’s 159 counties has now had at least one case of COVID-19, reported the AJC. Taliaferro County was the last county to confirm a COVID-19 case, which officials announced last week. The off...

Fired Transgender Police Chief Sues City of Byron, Georgia

After getting fired from her position as fire chief of Byron, Georgia, in June 2019, transgender woman Rachel Mosby has sued the town for discrimination. Mosby filed a federal discrimination lawsuit on April...

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

Black Trans Woman Bree Black Murdered in Florida

HIV Medications May Lower Risk of COVID-19, Study Finds

HUD Appears to Defy Bostock Ruling with Anti-trans Rule for Homeless Shelters

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

New Documentary Looks at Terrors Facing LGBTQ Community

Birthday Cakes, Parties Always Popular for Dogs

Billy Porter Makes History with Essence Cover