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Trump Names Owner of Conversion Therapy Practice to Key Administration Post

Donald Trump has named Marcus Bachmann to the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities, an advisory panel in the Department of Health and Human Services. Bachmann and his wife, former Rep...

LGBTQ Faces from Obama Years Included in Latest Appointments by Biden

LGBTQ staffers who are familiar faces from the Obama years are among the choices for the upcoming Biden administration as the transition continues to ramp up. One prominent LGBTQ Trump supporter is among the ap...

Mayor Bottoms Designates Atlanta Eagle as Historic Landmark

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced that the Atlanta Eagle building on Ponce de Leon Avenue has been designated a historic landmark. The Department of City Planning’s Historic Preservation Studio an...

Biggest National News of 2020

2020 was historic for the entire country, particularly LGBTQ Americans. Along with the coronavirus pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement, 2020 was the deadliest year on record for transgender people, LGBTQ e...

Biggest Georgia News of 2020

From an historic LGBTQ win by Kim Jackson to lesbian police chief Erica Shields stepping down from her position, 2020 was a news-making year for LGBTQ Georgians. Take a walk down memory lane with us as we remin...

Ossoff and Warnock are the Choice for LGBTQ Georgians

Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock are on the ballot in January to unseat Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, respectively, from the U.S. Senate. While this runoff election represents an opportunity t...

Atlanta Scores Perfect 100 on Municipal Equality Index, Only Georgia City to Do So

Atlanta has received a perfect score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign’s Municipal Equality Index (MEI) 2020, the only Georgia municipality to do so. The MEI examines how LGBTQ-inclusive municipal laws, po...

Pete Buttigieg Makes History as First LGBTQ Cabinet Nominee

Pete Buttigieg has been nominated for U.S. Secretary of Transportation in the Biden-Harris administration, cementing him as the first out LGBTQ cabinet nominee. The Biden-Harris transitional team tweeted the...

A Record Percentage of LGBTQ Candidates Won their Races in 2020

This election cycle was historic for LGBTQ Americans for a number of reasons. Not only did a record number of LGBTQ candidates run in 2020, but a record percentage of LGBTQ candidates won their races, according...

Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Same-sex Parents on Birth Certificates

The U.S. Supreme Court, which many predicted would roll back LGBTQ rights with its new 6-3 conservative majority, has turned down a request to hear a case that would have undercut the guarantee of full marriage...

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

Biden Takes Over, Signs LGBTQ Executive Order

Biden Announces Appointment of Trans Woman Dr. Rachel Levine to HHS

Biden, Harris Inauguration Events Mostly Virtual

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Pandemic Brings Decrease in LGBTQ Representation on TV, GLAAD Report Finds

The Year in LGBTQ Cinema

Tamisha Iman and LaLa Ri Represent Atlanta on “Drag Race” Season 13

Trump Names Owner of Conversion Therapy Practice to Key Administration Post

LGBTQ Faces from Obama Years Included in Latest Appointments by Biden

Top Ten Stories of 2020

Mayor Bottoms Designates Atlanta Eagle as Historic Landmark

Biggest National News of 2020

Biggest Georgia News of 2020

Ossoff and Warnock are the Choice for LGBTQ Georgians

Atlanta Scores Perfect 100 on Municipal Equality Index, Only Georgia City to Do So

Pete Buttigieg Makes History as First LGBTQ Cabinet Nominee

A Record Percentage of LGBTQ Candidates Won their Races in 2020

Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Same-sex Parents on Birth Certificates

Biden Takes Over, Signs LGBTQ Executive Order

Biden Announces Appointment of Trans Woman Dr. Rachel Levine to HHS

Creep of the Week: Donald Trump

Pandemic Brings Decrease in LGBTQ Representation on TV, GLAAD Report Finds

Biden, Harris Inauguration Events Mostly Virtual

Local LGBTQ Activist and Ally Judy Colbs Dies at 89

Twisted Soul Hosts Fish Fry for MLK Day

Trump Administration Allows LGBTQ Discrimination with New HHS Rule

LGBTQ Trump Supporters Tiptoe Away from President after U.S. Capitol Attack

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