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Human Rights Campaign Close to Naming Next President: Sources

Fresh from the successful U.S. House vote on the Equality Act, the Human Rights Campaign is close to naming a new president to lead the nation’s largest LGBT advocacy group, insiders have told the Washington Bl...

HRC’s Chad Griffin Ready to Step Aside

Donald Trump’s shocking election in 2016 jolted the LGBT community out of its sleepwalking trek toward full equality and first-class citizenship. Like most voters—including apparently Trump himself—LGBT people ...

Georgia One of 28 States Ranked Lowest in HRC’s State Equality Index

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) released their fifth annual State Equality Index (SEI), which looks at state legislation and determines the level of LGBTQ equality in all 50 states. According to the SEI, more t...

HRC Calls on Va. Governor to Resign over Racist Yearbook Page

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is facing growing calls to resign from the Human Rights Campaign and others after his medical school yearbook page with a picture of two men in blackface and a Ku Klux Klan robe surf...

LGBTQ Organizations Criticize Mike Pence’s World AIDS Day Speech

Vice President Mike Pence gave a speech on Thursday for World AIDS Day to address how the United States is fighting the epidemic on a national and worldwide scale. With his failure to mention the LGBTQ communit...

Chad Griffin to Step Down as Human Rights Campaign President

After a seven-year period leading the nation’s largest LGBT group that culminated in massive gains for LGBT rights supporters on Election Day 2018, Chad Griffin announced Thursday he will step down as president...

More Voters Identify as LGBTQ — And They Back Democrats

Exit polling on Election Day 2018 revealed striking data about the strength LGBT voters, demonstrating they constitute a sizable 6 percent chunk of the electorate and overwhelmingly support the Democratic Party...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Jan. 24

1. In Brazil, an LGBT person is murdered an average of every 19 hours, according to a report issued by watchdog group Grupo Gay de Bahia, who said there were 387 LGBT's killed in the South American nation last ...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Oct. 3

1. The U.N. condemned the death penalty as punishment for same-sex relations, blasphemy, and adultery in a resolution 27 to 13. Among the 13 opposing was the United States with China, Egypt, India, Iraq, Japan,...

Georgia Congressman Tom Price’s confirmation to HHS dismays LGBT advocates

The U.S. Senate approved late Thursday another Trump Cabinet pick with an anti-LGBT history with the narrow confirmation of Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) as secretary of Health and Human Services. The 52 Senate Rep...

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

White House Livestreams Anti-LGBTQ Sermon

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

Brookhaven Becomes Seventh Georgia Municipality to Outlaw LGBTQ Discrimination

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

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

Behind the Scenes: “Maybe Happy Ending, The Musical!”

Human Rights Campaign Close to Naming Next President: Sources

HRC’s Chad Griffin Ready to Step Aside

Georgia One of 28 States Ranked Lowest in HRC’s State Equality Index

HRC Calls on Va. Governor to Resign over Racist Yearbook Page

Top 10 National Stories of 2018

LGBTQ Organizations Criticize Mike Pence’s World AIDS Day Speech

Chad Griffin to Step Down as Human Rights Campaign President

More Voters Identify as LGBTQ — And They Back Democrats

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Jan. 24

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Oct. 3

Georgia Congressman Tom Price’s confirmation to HHS dismays LGBT advocates

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

White House Livestreams Anti-LGBTQ Sermon

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

Brookhaven Becomes Seventh Georgia Municipality to Outlaw LGBTQ Discrimination

House Democrats Call for ICE to Release all Transgender Detainees

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

Trump Admin. Proposes More Anti-LGBTQ “Religious Freedom” Rules

Kanye West to Headline Evangelical Event Alongside Anti-LGBTQ Preachers

Atlanta Pride Committee Announces 2019 Year-end Grant Recipients

Treasuring the LGBTQ ‘Trap’

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