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Campaign for Southern Equality Offers Grants for LGBTQ Southerns Affected by Coronavirus

The Campaign for Southern Equality (CSE) has created a rapid response grant round to quickly route funds to individuals, families, and community organizations affected by COVID-19 across the LGBTQ South. The...

Attendee at LGBTQ Dance Fundraiser in Miami Tests Positive for Coronavirus

An attendee at a fundraising dance party in Miami for the National LGBTQ Task Force has tested positive for the coronavirus, the organization informed participants last night in a letter shared with the Washing...

Sanders Wins New Hampshire in Narrow Lead over Buttigieg

After taking home a narrow victory over Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Iowa caucuses, former mayor Pete Buttigieg has come in second behind Sanders in the New Hampshire primaries on Tuesday (February 11). Accord...

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...

Winning Design Announced for Pulse Memorial

The winners have been announced in a global competition to design a memorial set to be built on the site of the Pulse nightclub. The competition was held by the onePULSE Foundation with the purpose of select...

LGBTQ Southerners Experience Barriers to Health Care, Survey Finds

A report of the new Southern LGBTQ Health Survey found that a high number of LGBTQ Southerners—especially transgender Southerners—experience struggles with their health and the quality of health care they recei...

Tennessee County Commissioner Calls Pete Buttigieg “A Queer” in Released Video

A video has been released of a county commissioner from Tennessee hatefully referring to gay Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg as “a queer.” At a meeting regarding an ordinance to make Sevier ...

Judge Rules Southern Poverty Law Center Can List Florida Christian Group as Hate Group

A federal judge ruled that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is allowed to label anti-LGBTQ Florida-based evangelical Christian media outreach group D. James Kennedy Ministries (DJKM) as a hate group, acco...

Man Behind North Carolina’s “Bathroom Bill” to be Congressman

The lead sponsor behind North Carolina’s infamous “bathroom bill,” Dan Bishop, will be a member of Congress after a narrow victory in a special district election, reported Out Magazine. The Republican lawmaker...

Black Trans Woman Bee Love Slater Burned Beyond Recognition in Florida

Black transgender woman Bee Love Slater was founded killed and burned in a car in Clewiston, Florida on Wednesday (September 4), reported NewNowNext. The victim was not identified until Friday (September 6), as...

Founder of Southern Conversion Therapy Organization Denounces the Practice After Coming Out

The founder of the South Carolina-based conversion therapy program Hope for Wholeness has come out as gay and denounced conversion therapy in an interview with The Post and Courier. After two decades with th...

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

Trump Says He Had Nothing To Do with FDA Easing Gay Blood Ban

SAGE Launches SAGEConnect to Combat Social Isolation Among LGBTQ Elders

Gov. Brian Kemp Signs Statewide Shelter-in-Place Order

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

City Winery Announces ‘Open to the Future’ Concert Series

Alliance Theatre’s ‘Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed’ Available for Streaming

‘Tiger King’ Docuseries Presents Trans Man as Butch Lesbian