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Jacksonville LGBTQ community concerned after trans killing

A transgender woman, age 24, was shot to death Sunday in a Jacksonville, Florida motel. The death marks the fourth recorded attack against the city's transgender community since February. Of those four, thre...

North Carolina bathroom policy focus of new court case

A year after the state of North Carolina removed the most infamous provisions of its transphobic bathroom bill, transgender advocates are saying the state has not undone the discriminatory reach of the earlier ...

Apple criticized for North Carolina consideration

Tech giant Apple is facing a backlash for considering North Carolina in its expansion plans. The Cupertino-based firm has floated the prospect of locating a development site in North Carolina's Research Tria...

UT Alumni Help Pride Center After Legislative Backstab

The Pride Center at the University of Tennessee has been defunded by that state's Legislature. Also defunded: several inclusion and diversity initiatives at the Knoxville campus. Law-based targeted attacks on m...

One gay magical weekend at Disney celebrates 25 years

Before Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, there was an online BBS, or bulletin board system. And if you were logged on to the Florida gay BBS in early 1991, you might have seen a message from Orlando software des...

Georgia military commander cites ‘party atmosphere’ in refusing color guard request for Augusta Pride

A post-Don’t Ask Don’t Tell military still is not on board in Georgia with having a color guard march at the front of a Georgia Gay Pride parade later this month because of its “party atmosphere.” Augusta Pr...

Arkansas Supreme Court rejects motion for stay in same-sex marriage ruling

The Arkansas State Supreme Court has denied a request to stay a lower court’s ruling that the state’s same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional. Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel had asked for a stay...

North Carolina clergy cite ‘religious freedom’ in federal lawsuit seeking right to marry same-sex couples

A federal lawsuit was filed today by North Carolina religious leaders and same-sex couples challenging the state’s constitutional amendment, known as Amendment One, banning same-sex marriage. The lawsuit was...

First Southern LGBT Asian summit comes to Atlanta

When she was coming out, Florence Tang of Atlanta found the Asian Pacific Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Network to be a crucial resource in finding fellowship and identity. But Tang also learned that such a reso...

Federal judge rules in favor of same-sex marriage in Tennessee

In an important but narrow ruling, a U.S. district court judge in Nashville issued a preliminary injunction late Friday afternoon, barring the state of Tennessee from denying recognition of marriage licenses ob...

Left out in the south: National funding foundations leaving southern LGBT nonprofits high and dry

Of the estimated 8 million “out” LGBT adults in the U.S., nearly 2.7 million―or about one-third―of them live right here in the South. But according to a new report, the region receives only three to four percen...

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

The World’s Happiest Countries Protect their LGBTQ Citizens

Hoyer Announces House Vote March 28 Against Trump’s Trans Military Ban

Trump’s Picks for AIDS Council Disappoint Some Fighting HIV Epidemic

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Paramount Wants to Edit Elton John’s Gay Sex Scene in ‘Rocketman’

Call Me By Your Name Sequel to Hit Bookshelves in October

YouTuber Shane Dawson gets Engaged to Boyfriend Ryland Adams