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Campaign for Southern Equality Opens Grant Application for Grassroots LGBTQ Organizers

The North Carolina-based Campaign for Southern Equality (CSE) has reopened applications for its Southern Equality Fund for the fifth consecutive year. The Southern Equality Fund provides a pipeline of resour...

Iowa Results Up in the Air Amid Reports of Technical Difficulties

The results of the Iowa caucuses, the first-in-the-nation contest for the Democratic presidential primary, remained up in the air late Monday as technical difficulties prompted at least one candidate to call fo...

Transgender Women Transferred from ICE Detention Center in NM

An immigrant advocacy group on Monday said the transgender women who were in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at a privately-run detention center in New Mexico have been moved to other facilitie...

Poll Reveals Bernie Sanders Leading in Support Among LGBTQ Voters

A poll from the Morning Consult of over 95,000 potential Democratic voters—12 percent of whom identified as LGBTQ—reveals that Sen. Bernie Sanders is the top candidate among young and “very liberal” LGBTQ voter...

“Rainbow Wave” of LGBTQ-friendly Ads Will Appear During Super Bowl LIV

A record number of Super Bowl ads will be LGBTQ-inclusive in what GLAAD is calling a “rainbow wave.” At least eight ads airing during Super Bowl LIV, one of the most-watched television events of the year, wi...

Do or Die for Buttigieg in Iowa?

Editor’s note: The Blade will have a reporter on the ground in Iowa next week covering the caucuses. Visit washingtonblade.com to follow updated reporting. With just days to go before the Iowa caucuses on Mo...

Ryan Roemerman Named New Co-Chair of Mayor’s LGBTQ Advisory Board

At last night’s (January 30) launch party for the City of Atlanta’s first-ever biennial report on LGBTQ affairs, a special announcement was made regarding new leadership among the Mayor’s LGBTQ Advisory Board. ...

Atlanta’s First-ever Biennial LGBTQ Report Details Accomplishments and Commitment to LGBTQ Community

Last night (January 30), Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’ office and the City of Atlanta launched the city’s first-ever biennial report on LGBTQ affairs, which details the city’s accomplishments, LGBTQ-related prior...

Jorge Estevez is WSB-TV’s First Openly LGBTQ News Anchor

Walking into WSB-TV, Jorge Estevez is full of energy as he begins a new journey with the news station. Estevez’s first day was on Jan. 13, making him the station’s first openly LGBTQ anchor. Estevez comes from ...

Georgia Ranks in Lowest Category of State Equality Index

Georgia ranked in the lowest category of the 6th annual State Equality Index (SEI), helmed by the HRC Foundation and the Equality Federation Institute. States were placed into one of four categories based on...

Transgender Flag Emoji Finally Coming in 2020

Finally, a transgender flag emoji (along with a handful of other inclusive emojis) will be coming to phones everywhere in 2020. https://twitter.com/Emojipedia/status/1222638828281790468 Unicode's newest E...

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

Bloomberg Pummeled, Lackluster in Response in Bloody Democratic Debate

HRC Releases Preview of Pro- and Anti-LGBTQ Legislation in 2020

Mormon Church Opposes Transgender Transitioning in New Handbook

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Atlanta Fringe Festival Announces Lineup

“The Flash” Actor Rick Cosnett Comes Out

AOC and Others to Guest Judge ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 12