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Photo Gallery: Packed house for MLK Day at annual Rustin/Lorde Breakfast

It was standing room only at the Loudermilk Conference Center in downtown Atlanta on Monday as the community marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day with the 16th Annual Bayard Rustin/Audre Lorde Breakfast. The theme...

2016 In Memoriam: A number of notable LGBT deaths throughout Georgia community

From the January death of David Bowie, to the passing of Zsa Zsa Gabor earlier this month, 2016 will be remembered as the year we mourned the loss of so many iconic celebrities, politicians, journalists, activi...

2016 Year In Review: Anti-gay bill, community mourning color chaotic year locally

Park Cannon wins Georgia House District 58 in runoff Following the resignation of Rep. Simone Bell in November 2015, there was concern about the falling number of LGBT voices in the state Legislature. But th...

Ashleigh Atwell: Rest in peace and power, Cheryl Courtney-Evans

When I met Cheryl Courtney-Evans for the first time, two years ago, she was mad as hell. I invited her to speak to my student group at Georgia State for a meeting about police brutality against LGBTQ people....

Atlanta transgender activist Cheryl Courtney-Evans dies

Pioneering Atlanta transgender activist Cheryl Courtney-Evans has died. She had been battling cancer and other health issues recently. News of Courtney-Evans' death over the weekend led to an outpouring of o...

PRIDE MAGAZINE salutes local black trans activists

The online LGBT publication PRIDE is recognizing the liberating work of 17 black transgender activists, six of which happen to be Atlanta residents. Raquel Willis, an emerging voice in local trans activism comp...

Local groups launch efforts to address Georgia transgender voter disenfranchisement

The National Conference of State Legislatures has five categories to grade the ID requirements for voting in each state. The states with the most requirements fall in the “strict photo ID” category, and Georgia...

Guest column: Trans progress needed at both Atlanta Pride fests

When asked my take on the juxtaposition of being an African-American transgender woman, Black Pride Weekend and living in Atlanta, my mind has a tendency to bounce all over like a ball in a pinball machine, con...

Left out in the south: National funding foundations leaving southern LGBT nonprofits high and dry

Of the estimated 8 million “out” LGBT adults in the U.S., nearly 2.7 million―or about one-third―of them live right here in the South. But according to a new report, the region receives only three to four percen...

Week of events honor transgender community

For the past decade or more, people have gathered on the steps of the Georgia Capitol to remember transgender people who were killed or died because of who they are. This year, the day will also celebrate life.

The annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, facilitated by Tracee McDaniel and her organization, the Juxtaposed Center for Transformation, is also moving indoors for the first time and will be held at the Phillip Rush Center on Nov. 20.

“In addition to the vigil we’ve added a new component this year,” McDaniel says.

Transgender Day of Remembrance

Community vigil at the Phillip Rush Center tonight

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

Rachel Slawson to be First Bisexual Miss USA Contestant

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

White House Livestreams Anti-LGBTQ Sermon

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Lizzo Says She Wants Her Music to Make Black Trans Women Feel Good

RuPaul Set to Host SNL

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