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Atlanta police launch LGBT Citizens Police Academy

The Atlanta Police Department has announced it is launching its first-ever LGBTQ Citizens Police Academy. The event will consist of a two-day program April 17-18, running from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The police depart...

I Am Midtown movement members allege residents harassing MSR, Blake’s, TEN

Atlanta’s skyline is changing. Along with the iconic high-rises, cranes building new condos find themselves in the silhouette. And with new condos come new people, which brings new concerns for the preservation...

Jaha Howard, the disco ball from Backstreet and Jungle and rainbow crosswalks

2017 Year In Review: Top local LGBT news stories of 2017

Take a step back to look at the local LGBT news landscape in Georgia in 2017 and you might wince. An anti-LGBT candidate wins a Georgia Congressional race, multiple deaths in the transgender community, an early...

Ryan Lee: LGBT and taking a knee

If anyone thought the protest raging through the NFL was not a LGBT issue, the Atlanta Police Department recently reminded us why we should all be taking a knee. Despite the focus on the national anthem and the...

Patrick Saunders, Editor of Georgia Voice

Patrick Saunders: Add another one to the list for Atlanta Police Department

The Atlanta Police Department have a tough job to do. That needs to be said first and foremost. And it's an encouraging sign for the LGBT community when a lesbian is appointed to the department's highest post, ...

Mary Norwood: I accept Atlanta police explanation on Black Gay Pride early bar closure

Atlanta City Councilwoman Mary Norwood weighed in on the Atlanta Police Department's decision to close four gay bars two hours early during Black Gay Pride, issuing a statement Wednesday morning saying she spok...

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 ...

Gay Atlanta School Board candidate assaulted, robbed during transgender equality march

An Acworth man is in Atlanta Police Department custody this week following an attack on openly gay Atlanta School Board candidate Charlie Stadtlander.Wilford Hardnett was charged with armed robbery and aggr...

Vandals tag Midtown car with homophobic, racist, anti-Semitic slurs

The night before the Super Bowl, a car parked in Ansley Park was tagged with graffiti including the words "nigger," "faggot," "kyke" and "fag. New Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields took the moment to re-affirm...

Atlanta police investigating violent robbery of gay man in Midtown

Atlanta police are investigating a violent robbery that occurred in Midtown last week in which an unidentified assailant pistol-whipped one gay man, sending him to the hospital with facial lacerations.Mamdo...

Court finds city of Atlanta in contempt for not implementing police trainings mandated after unconstitutional Eagle raid

A federal judge has found the city of Atlanta in contempt of court and imposed numerous sanctions for the city’s failure to properly train police officers as mandated in a lawsuit settlement following the uncon...

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

Gay Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Slams Facebook for Allowing False Political Ads

Presidential Candidates Discuss LGBTQ Plans at HRC Town Hall

Activists Arrested in Sit-In Outside of Supreme Court during LGBTQ Employment Cases

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Olympic Gold Medalist Kerron Clement Comes Out

Billy Porter May be Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother in New Musical

Queer Restaurant? Of Course!