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Georgia Equality Files Amicus Brief in Supreme Court Case Regarding Workplace Discrimination

LGBTQ advocacy group Georgia Equality filed an amicus brief in several cases that will be determine whether employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity is covered under Titl...

HRC’s Sarah McBride Could Be Nation’s First Openly Trans State Senator

Sarah McBride, a transgender activist and the national press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign, has announced her campaign for the Delaware State Senate. McBride is running for the state’s 1st senate dis...

Fuller House Star Juan Pablo Di Pace Opens Up about Being Gay

Fuller House star Juan Pablo Di Pace opened up about his sexuality, coming out as gay at a TedX event.The Argentinian actor, singer, and director talked about his journey to self-acceptance in his TedX talk...

Police Arrest Suspect in Murder of Trey Peters

DeKalb County police have arrested a suspect in last month’s murder of gay man Trey Peters and have issued warrants for a second suspect.Joshua Cortez Ellis, 21, was arrested last month on unrelated charges...

LGBTQ Women are Elected at Higher Rate than LGBTQ Men, Says Annise Parker

More lesbians were elected this year as mayor of major cities than ever before, according to Annise Parker, the first openly LGBTQ person to serve as mayor of a major city.The former mayor of Houston and cu...

Black LGB People Report Regularly Being Harassed or Threatened

A majority of black LGB people feel harassed or threatened multiple times a year according to the Black Futures Lab’s Black Census, the largest survey of black people in the U.S. since Reconstruction.A tota...

Border Patrol Agents Force Migrant to Hold Sign Reading “I Like Men”

Allegations have been made against U.S. Border Patrol agents that claim they forced a migrant detainee to hold a sign reading “I like men” as a humiliation tactic.CNN received emails from a serving U.S. Cus...

Lesbian Tennis Players Make History at Wimbledon, Talk Coming Out in Sports

Lesbian tennis players Alison Van Uytvanck and Greet Minnen, the first openly gay couple to play doubles at Wimbledon, spoke about wanting to see more athletes come out after their Wimbledon win on Wednesday (J...

Nine Companies that Bore Rainbows During Pride Donated to Anti-LGBTQ Politicians

Fear “rainbow capitalism” is more profit-fueled than genuine? You may be right; a study from Progressive Shopper found that nine corporations who celebrated Pride month with rainbow products donated $1 million ...

Donald Trump’s Gay Deputy Press Secretary Judd Deere Defends President’s Anti-LGBTQ Policies

Gay Republican and President Donald Trump’s deputy press secretary Judd Deere defended the president’s anti-LGBTQ policies in an interview with Buzzfeed News.Deere contended that the Trump administration is...

HIV Eliminated in Living Animal for First Time

Researchers have successfully eliminated HIV from a living animal for the first time, paving one more step towards a cure, reported Gay Star News.The research team infected 29 mice with HIV then used modifi...

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

Gay Influencers Make TIME’s 25 Most Influential People on the Internet

Netflix Calls Out “Straight Pride” Organizers

HIV Vaccine Moves On to Late-Stage Testing

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

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Onstage Atlanta Back in the Game with “Spring Awakening”

Billy Porter Makes History with Emmy Nomination