Rebecca Hargett Ranson, 1943-2017
The following is an obituary written by the family of Rebecca Ranson. Rebecca Hargett Ranson, playwright, activist and arts leader, passed on to the next life on Sept. 4, 2017, at the age of 73, following a ...
Annual Atlanta bike ride pedals AIDS vaccine research forward
It’s time to get on your bikes and ride. This weekend, more than 100 cyclists take to the streets for a 200-mile bike ride benefitting HIV and AIDS research in Atlanta. “We’re 30-plus years into this HIV/...
Georgia LGBT students honored at Lavender Graduations
Each year, thousands of Georgia college students don caps and gowns, preparing to enter the hallowed life phase of “adult.” Many of these students are honored through their individual schools, athletic departme...
Emory enrolling subjects in historic study on HIV-positive organ donation
In March of this year, Johns Hopkins Hospital became the first hospital in the United States to transplant the organs of an HIV-positive donor into HIV-positive recipients. The liver and kidney transplants save...
Church trial possibly imminent for lesbian Rev. Cynthia Meyer
There is an update to the story of Rev. Cynthia Meyer, the former Assistant Dean of Students for the Candler School of Theology at Emory University and current leader of the Edgerton United Methodist Church in ...
And the most LGBT-friendly college in Georgia is…
The folks at eCollegeFinder say they wanted to expand on the Princeton Review's findings of the most LGBT-friendly colleges and universities in the nation and, with a little help from Campus Pride, they ...
Johns Hopkins’ students say no to Chick-fil-A on campus
Students at Johns Hopkins University voted 18-8 against having a Chick-fil-a restaurant on campus because of the Atlanta-based chain’s CEO's well-known anti-gay beliefs. On April 21, the university’s Student...
Atlanta’s National Center for Civil and Human Rights to open LGBT Institute
When the National Center for Civil and Human Rights opened in downtown Atlanta last June, the LGBT community wondered how many of our stories would be included. The answer was, by most accounts, a fair amount. ...
Atlanta honors Transgender Day of Remembrance
Each year on Nov. 20, the transgender community, allies and loved ones come together to remember those who were killed because of anti-trans hatred and bigotry. A Transgender Day of Remembrance memorial dis...
[PHOTOS] Georgia Stonewall Bar’s 20th anniversary awards dinner recognizes LGBT legal leaders
The 20th annual awards dinner for the Stonewall Bar Association of Georgia was a grand affair, held Oct. 16 in the Fox Theatre's Egyptian Ballroom. The Stonewall Bar Association is Georgia's legal group for LGB...
Emory makes list of top universities in the South for LGBT students
It's good to be a gay student at Emory University, and Campus Pride is recognizing it by including the Atlanta school as one of the seven bravest campuses for LGBT students in the South. Campus Pride, a nati...