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Atlanta Pride Committee Announces 2019 Year-end Grant Recipients

The Atlanta Pride Committee (APC) has once again renewed their commitment to investing into Atlanta’s LGBTQ community by announcing their list of 2019 year-end grand recipients. These grants are awarded to n...

Local LGBTQ Advocate and MAAP Founder Allen Jones Dies at 82

Allen Jones, the founder the Atlanta Executive Network—now the Metro Atlanta Association of Professionals (MAAP)—passed away on Sunday, December 29 at the age of 82. “Allen Jones was a true visionary, dedica...

MARTA Expansion Plans Threaten Heretic Atlanta

Plans to expand MARTA could threaten the livelihood of one of Atlanta’s most popular gay clubs, Heretic. The expansion project aims to connect the Lindbergh and Avondale stations with light rail, with operat...

2021 Global LGBTQ Travel and Tourism Convention to be Held in Atlanta

The International LGBTQ Travel Association (IGLTA) has selected Atlanta as the host city for its 38th Annual Global Convention for 2021. The Global Convention is the world’s premier education and networking ...

Rush Center Says Goodbye to Executive Director Linda Ellis

The Rush Center Board of Directors has announced in a press release that Executive Director Linda Ellis, who has been with the organization since its inception in 2008, has resigned. “I want to extend my sin...

Best Bets: Our Guide to the Best LGBTQ Events in Atlanta for November 22-December 5

Friday, Nov. 22 Topher Payne’s “Swell Party” continues at Onstage Atlanta tonight. It’s 1932, and 20-year-old orphaned tobacco heir Smith Reynolds has returned from New York to his family’s Winston-Salem es...

Free Event #FABNORMAL, An Atlanta Queer Art Showcase, Comes to the Moxy Hotel

Join Rigel Gemini and Cameron Lee for #FABNORMAL: an Atlanta Queer Art Showcase at Moxy Atlanta Midtown this Friday (November 15) from 8-11pm. The event, hosted in partnership with The Moxy Hotel, Lexus,...

Twisted Soul Launches Monthly Drag Queen Brunch

After hosting a Drag Queen Brunch for Atlanta Pride, Twisted Soul Cookhouse and Pours has launched a monthly installment of the event to be held on the second Saturday of every month, beginning this Saturday (N...

The Shed at Glenwood to Benefit Rainbow House Coalition for National Homeless Awareness Month

Enjoy reimagined American comfort food for a good cause: The Shed at Glenwood, a chef-driven neighborhood bistro located where the Atlanta BeltLine’s Eastside and Southside trails connect (475 Bill Kennedy Way)...

Best Bets: Our Guide to the Best LGBTQ Events in Atlanta for October 25-November 8

Friday, Oct. 25 Mix and mingle with LGBTQ+ business professionals, allies, non-profit leaders and more as the OUT Georgia Business Alliance (OGBA) – formerly known as the Atlanta Gay and Lesbian Chamber of C...

A “Wicked” Good Time for Atlanta Theater

Two LGBTQ favorites – the musicals “La Cage Aux Folles” and “Wicked” – are getting splashy productions in the ATL right now, courtesy of Out Front Theatre Company and Broadway Across America, respectively. “...

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

Record Number of Businesses Earn Perfect 100 on HRC Corporate Equality Index

White House Livestreams Anti-LGBTQ Sermon

Group Demands ICE Release Trans Woman in ‘Life-or-Death Medical Crisis’

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

RuPaul Set to Host SNL

Katie Sowers to Make History as First Openly LGBTQ Coach at Super Bowl

Ryan Murphy to Receive GLAAD Award for Accelerating LGBTQ Visibility in Media