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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

Trump-supporting woman confronts trans woman at LA Denny’s

Church of Scotland will write same-sex marriage laws

Special Olympics International celebrates 50 years

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Eating My Words: Southeast by Saigon: Anh’s Kitchen

Conservatives and Liberals Get A Shaming in “The Taming”

The LGBTQ community has allies in gaming

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

Sometimes “Y”: No Rain Delay for the Start of Summer

That’s What She Said: We’ll Never Be Royals … Or Will We?

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