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Savannah City Council Unanimously Passes Non-discrimination Protections for LGBTQ People

The Savannah City Council has passed an ordinance that protects LGBTQ people from discrimination while improving hate crimes reporting by law enforcement, making it the ninth city in Georgia to enact such measu...

BREAKING: Human Rights Campaign Endorses Jon Ossoff for U.S. Senate

In a Voice exclusive, the Human Rights Campaign has endorsed Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff in the 2020 U.S. Senate race. Osoff is challenging Republican incumbent David Perdue who won the seat in 2015. Huma...

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...

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

Fauci Confirms U.S. One of Hardest Hit Countries by Coronavirus

Amy Coney Barrett Was a Trustee at Anti-LGBTQ Christian School

Biden Pledges to Mom of Trans Kid to Protect LGBTQ Rights: ‘I Will Flat Out Change the Law’

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

‘Drag Race’ and ‘Dragula’ Halloween Specials Stream this Month

An Iconic LGBTQ Remake and a New Thriller

The Birth of LGBTQ Social Media Platform Molly Tommy