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Four Georgia Healthcare Facilities Score High on Healthcare Equality Index

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has released their 13th annual Healthcare Equality Index (HEI), a national LGBTQ benchmarking tool that evaluates the polices and practices of healthcare facilities as they relat...

Far-right, Anti-LGBTQ Republican Wins Runoff for Georgia’s 14th District Nomination

Far-right, anti-LGBTQ Marjorie Taylor Greene won her runoff for the Republican nomination for U.S. House in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. Greene defeated John Cowan in the 14th District primary runo...

LGBTQ and Civil Rights Advocates Criticize Passage of Georgia Police Protection Bill

As a compromise to pass Georgia’s first hate crimes bill, Governor Brian Kemp has signed a proposal into law granting police new protections, a move LGBTQ, racial, and civil rights advocacy groups are criticizi...

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...

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

Current Law vs. Equality Act vs. Fairness for All Act — What’s the Differences?

Marjorie Taylor Greene Posts Anti-Trans Sign Outside Office

House Passes Equality Act

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Two Versions of One Woman: Billie Holiday

Movies to Look Out for This Season

Nava Mau Part of Strong Ensemble in New LGBTQ-themed Series “Genera+ion”

Four Georgia Healthcare Facilities Score High on Healthcare Equality Index

Far-right, Anti-LGBTQ Republican Wins Runoff for Georgia’s 14th District Nomination

LGBTQ and Civil Rights Advocates Criticize Passage of Georgia Police Protection Bill

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

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

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

Black, Trans Sex Workers Face Police Violence

Gerald Bostock ‘Ecstatic’ Over Supreme Court Title VII Ruling

Jon Ossoff Wins Democratic Senate Primary

Georgia Primary Results Stream In After Voting Chaos

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

Two Versions of One Woman: Billie Holiday

Style Hair, Write a Poem, and Daydream

Birthday at Home

Movies to Look Out for This Season

Nava Mau Part of Strong Ensemble in New LGBTQ-themed Series “Genera+ion”

No, It’s Not Fair, Aunt Barb

Ethel Waters and the Harlem Renaissance

Out on TV

Best Bets: Spring Arts Edition

Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit Comes to Atlanta