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HRC and Faith Leaders Condemn President’s Failure to Denounce Racism

Over 100 prominent faith leaders, including LGBTQ clergies as well as the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), have condemned President Donald Trump and his administration for failing to denounce racism and using relig...

Ivanka Trump donates to alleged “gay cure” church

The businesswoman and daughter of President Trump has gifted Texas’ Prestonwood Baptist Church with a donation of $50,000, various sources have reported. Since the donation, journalists have alleged that the...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Aug. 14

1. The Naval Postgraduate School in California and the Palm Center estimate it would cost the US $960 million to enforce the president's ban on transgender troops, which is 114 times more than it costs for them...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, July 19

1. Brigham Young University-Idaho fired a professor after she wrote a pro-LGBT statement on her personal Facebook page and refused to take it down. 2. The Atlantic explores the effects inclusive sex educatio...

Sunday’s ‘Standing Silence’ protest to reflect on issues of democracy, LGBT rights

There is power in words. There is also power in silence. That’s the idea behind this Sunday’s “Standing Silence” protest in Atlanta, which will serve as a time to reflect up on and encourage awareness of a n...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, June 7

1. Chibụìhè Obi, a 24-year-old writer and LGBT activist from Nigeria, is free after being kidnapped. Obi disappeared after he wrote an essay condemning anti-gay violence in the country. 2. Are you a LGBT Chr...

Out of the closet: More Americans identifying as atheist, agnostic

One-fourth of Americans aren’t religious — making them members of the nation’s largest “religious group,” according to the Public Religion Research Institute. Newnan resident Kay Furlong is a member of that ...

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...

Patrick Saunders: My complicated relationship with God

I pray every night, but I don't know if I truly believe in God. I know that might sound odd, the idea that someone would talk to someone night after night, year after year, when they're not sure that the...

A schism of the soul: Being LGBT and Mormon

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is okay with Mormons being LGBT — so long as they don’t act on their attractions. “There’s a kind of schism within our souls when we’re being told we have to c...

Ryan Lee: Appreciating the flimsy faith of America’s Christian leaders

My friend has been experimenting with organic mixology lately, and after a sip of one of his latest creations, the most encouraging review I could offer was, “It’s not as bad as I expected it to be.” “Well t...

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

Biden, Harris Inauguration Events Mostly Virtual

Trump Administration Allows LGBTQ Discrimination with New HHS Rule

LGBTQ Trump Supporters Tiptoe Away from President after U.S. Capitol Attack

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Pandemic Brings Decrease in LGBTQ Representation on TV, GLAAD Report Finds

The Year in LGBTQ Cinema

Tamisha Iman and LaLa Ri Represent Atlanta on “Drag Race” Season 13