Tagged eddie long

2017 In Memoriam

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...

Ryan Lee

Ryan Lee: The sad, quick collapse of an anti-LGBT giant

I was planning to write about Eddie Long this week, but then he up and died, so I'm forced to consider whether it's appropriate to indict his character with criticisms that were entirely legitimate just a few d...

Bishop Eddie Long dies of ‘aggressive form of cancer’ at 63

Eddie Long, the Lithonia, Georgia, anti-LGBT pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church who made headlines in 2010 after sexual contact allegations, died yesterday. The church released a statement Sunday ...

The top 10 most popular Georgia Voice stories of 2016 were…

Our top 10 most read stories list this year was dominated by HB 757 and the Pulse shooting, with some election history being made, an unwelcome blast from the past and an early-year tragedy sprinkled in. Here w...

Bishop Eddie Long reveals he considered suicide

A tearful Bishop Eddie Long recently revealed to his congregation that he'd considered suicide. The longtime leader of New Birth Baptist Church in Lithonia did not offer specific details around what led him to ...