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Ryan Lee: Anybody but Mary Norwood for Atlanta mayor

Mary Norwood is nothing. That is not (entirely) shade, but the image the city councilmember has crafted while running for mayor of Atlanta for the past 10 years: a political outsider who has been in public offi...

Atlanta Black Gay Pride in Piedmont Park

Photo Gallery: Thousands pack Piedmont Park for Atlanta Black Gay Pride

Atlanta Black Gay Pride started 21 years ago as a barbecue in the park on the Sunday of Labor Day Weekend, and that tradition continued this year as thousands packed Piedmont Park for the Pure Heat Community Fe...

Woolard: Difficult not to call Atlanta gay bar closures during Black Gay Pride discriminatory

Atlanta mayoral candidate Cathy Woolard – the former Atlanta City Council president and first openly LGBT elected official in Georgia – is expressing doubts about the Atlanta Police Department's claim that the ...

Patrick Saunders, Editor of Georgia Voice

Patrick Saunders: Welcome to a weekend that could only happen in Atlanta

Labor Day weekend is one of my favorite weekends to be in Atlanta. There's this odd mix of major events that take place throughout the Midtown and downtown area, the three biggest of which are a pair of major c...

2017 Atlanta Black Gay Pride By The Numbers

21 The number of years Black Gay Pride has been celebrated in Atlanta75,000+ Number of people expected to attend Atlanta Black Gay Pride events this year3,000+ Number of people expected to attend eve...

Your guide to the best Atlanta Black Gay Pride events for Sept. 1 – 5

We gave you a taste of what's in store this Atlanta Black Gay Pride weekend in our last issue, now here's the full weekend lineup featuring parties, comedy shows, music and spoken word performances, panel discu...

Preview guide to the best Black Gay Pride events in Atlanta for Aug. 30 – Sept. 5

It's the largest Black Gay Pride in the country for several reasons, and one of them is definitely the parties! We'll have our full Black Gay Pride preview in our Sept. 1 issue, but until then, here's just a ta...

Scenes from a beautiful Sunday in Piedmont Park for Atlanta Black Gay Pride [PHOTOS]

The sun was out and so were the people as thousands descended on Piedmont Park for Atlanta Black Gay Pride on Sunday. A packed roster of music artists and various speakers at the Pure Heat Community Festival st...

Atlanta Black Gay Pride organizers planning changes for this year’s event

Editor's Note: To be clear, Traxx Girls, Rockstars Productions and the Vision Community Foundation will still be using the Georgian Terrace Hotel as host hotel for this year's Black Gay Pride. In The Life Atlan...

Charles Stephens: The language of trauma is silence: Part 1

Over the past week I’ve been furiously emailing every public health official I can think of, every agency, every friend connected to the world of research, concerning mortality data for black gay men who ha...

Lil Kim drops in on Atlanta Black Gay Pride [PHOTOS]

Star power was abundant throughout Black Gay Pride weekend in Atlanta, and adding to that mix was an appearance by Lil' Kim at Opera on Saturday. The WETher party, also featuring Azmarie, Veronica Vega, ...

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

Pete Buttigieg Places Third in National Poll

Methodist Church Set to Meet to Discuss LGBTQ Views and Possible Split of Denomination

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Whether Federal Law Bars Anti-LGBTQ Discrimination

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Nintendo Faces Backlash After Removing Trans Flag Level from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Converse Releases New Pride and Trans Pride Sneakers

Frank Ocean Reveals He’s Been in a Relationship for Three Years