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Lambda Legal’s Atlanta office welcomes two new staffers

There will be some new faces in Lambda Legal's Atlanta office. The LGBTQ legal team's Transgender Rights Project Director, Senior Attorney M. Dru Levasseur, has relocated to Georgia. According to Lambda, Le...

Final efforts to pass anti-LGBTQ adoption bill fail as Georgia legislative session ends

Last-ditch efforts to pass an anti-LGBTQ adoption bill failed on the final day of the 2018 Georgia legislative session on Thursday, and for the fifth straight year, the session ended with the state avoiding pas...

First openly gay candidate qualifies for Athens mayoral race

This March, business owner Richie Knight became the first openly gay candidate to qualify for office in Athens-Clarke County. “This was a surreal moment for me. It was incredible to be a part of making histo...

HRC grades Georgia healthcare facilities on LGBTQ equality

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC) on March 27 released the 11th edition of its annual Healthcare Equality Index (HEI), which scores healthcare facilities on policies and practices dedicated to the equi...

Butts-Mehre Heritage Hall, the University of Georgia football team's training facility.

UGA football equipment manager arrested after hidden shower cam found

A hidden shower camera has led to the arrest of the University of Georgia's equipment manager. The alleged perpetrator is Kevin Purvis, age 37, associate equipment manager for the UGA football team. Purvis, of ...

Legal experts: Hate crimes bill under consideration will cover transgender people

When a hate crimes bill passed out of a Georgia House committee earlier this month, it was seen as a pivotal step toward finally getting Georgia to join the 45 other states that have similar legislation on the ...

Stacey Evans makes pitch for LGBTQ vote for Georgia governor

Last October wasn't the first time Stacey Evans marched in the Atlanta Pride parade, but it was the first time doing it with her four-year-old daughter, Ashley, who rode her bike through the route. Evans sai...

The Best Man by Richard Peck and Avid Bookshop in Athens

Athens bookstore forced to remove LGBTQ book from private school event

“The Best Man” is the story of a middle school boy with four male role models, two of which decide to get married. On March 7, “The Best Man” was part of a display of Georgia Children’s Book Award nominees a...

Georgia House Judiciary Committee hearing March 8, 2018

LGB-inclusive hate crimes bill gets new life, passes out of House committee

Three LGBTQ-inclusive hate crimes bills were proposed this year in the Georgia Legislature, but none of them passed from one chamber to the next by Crossover Day last week, making them effectively dead for the ...

Macon march to protest anti-LGBTQ adoption bill SB 375

When it comes to having comprehensive non-discrimination laws, Georgia demonstrates a bias. The 2018 March on Macon aims to change that. The organizers label the happening as a "public demonstration/civic en...

Rally to stop anti-LGBTQ adoption bill SB 375

Hundreds rally against anti-LGBTQ adoption bill across from Georgia State Capitol

Around 200 people gathered across the street from the Georgia State Capitol on Thursday afternoon for the Rally To Stop SB 375, the anti-LGBTQ adoption bill that passed in the Senate last week and has quickly c...

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

Transgender Woman Deported from US Murdered in El Salvador

LGBT Democrats Play Visible Role at DNC Winter Meeting in DC

Trans Man Wins $120,000 Discrimination Suit Against Iowa Prison in “Cutting-Edge Victory”

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Actor Don Cheadle Sports Pro-Trans T-shirt on Saturday Night Live

Ghost Story-Themed Play Makes Magic

The Myth of Sisyphus: Grappling Suicide with Absurdity