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2017 In Memoriam: Georgia’s LGBT community lost activists, artists, valued everyday citizens

There has been an overwhelming frequency of homicides against transgender Americans in 2017, with an average of more than two murders per month nationally. Unfortunately, Georgia was at the forefront of this al...

2017 Georgia Voice People of the Year: Georgia’s lost transgender citizens

2017 was not easy for LGBT Americans. It was especially difficult for transgender Americans, whose struggles took center stage. As North Carolina legislated what bathroom a person could use; as the president...

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...

Athens judge grants bail to suspect in transgender woman’s murder case

Jalen Breon Brown, 21, who allegedly shot and killed Atlanta transwoman Ava Le’Ray Barrin outside an Athens, Georgia, apartment complex, is out on bond. Brown, who is also transgender, was granted bail this ...

17-year-old Atlanta transgender woman murdered in Athens

The Georgia LGBT community is in mourning this week after learning a 17-year-old Atlanta transgender woman was murdered in Athens. Ava Le’Ray Barrin was shot and killed on Sunday by an acquaintance named Jal...

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

City of Atlanta Releases COVID-19 Resource for the LGBTQ Community

New Information Surrounding Death of Tony McDade Emerges

Grindr Removes Ethnicity Filter and Donates to Black Lives Matter Movement

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Lady Bunny’s Comedy Special Slays Sacred COVID-19 Cows

Gay ‘Mister Rogers’ Actor No Longer Bound by Oath to Children’s TV Titan

Charis Books and The Invisible Histories Project Host ‘The Deviant’s War’ Virtual Book Tour

2017 In Memoriam: Georgia’s LGBT community lost activists, artists, valued everyday citizens

2017 Georgia Voice People of the Year: Georgia’s lost transgender citizens

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

Athens judge grants bail to suspect in transgender woman’s murder case

17-year-old Atlanta transgender woman murdered in Athens

City of Atlanta Releases COVID-19 Resource for the LGBTQ Community

New Information Surrounding Death of Tony McDade Emerges

Grindr Removes Ethnicity Filter and Donates to Black Lives Matter Movement

Biden Recognizes 50th Anniversary of LGBTQ Pride Month

Creep of the Week: Alex Azar

HRC Releases #PrideInside Toolkit to Make Celebrating Pride Month from Home Simple

Equality Florida Hosts Virtual LGBTQ Black Lives Matter Town Hall

Same-sex Weddings Have Boosted Economy by $3.8 Billion

Court Rules Same-sex Couples Have Equal Access to Survivor’s Benefits

Creep of the Week: The Republican Party

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