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Anti-LGBTQ adoption bill advances to full Senate Judiciary Committee

A Georgia Senate Judiciary sub-committee on Thursday afternoon heard public comments on a bill that would allow adoption agencies to refuse to place children with same-sex couples based on their religious belie...

Eric Paulk: American healthcare system is a dream deferred

The American healthcare system as we know it today — private, decentralized, job-based — is a vestige of the Jim Crow era, which has created in it gaping race-based disparities across almost every category of d...

Georgia State Sen. Jesse Stone (R-Waynesboro)

Georgia Senate committee strips anti-LGBT language, passes adoption bill

The Georgia Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday voted 8-2 in favor of a bill to update Georgia's adoption laws without an anti-LGBT provision that caused the bill to stall in the final days of last year's l...

Jeff Graham, Josh McKoon and Park Cannon

2018 Legislative Preview: Lawmakers, activists weigh in on religious exemptions, hate crimes bills

Passing a modernized adoption bill is a top priority for the General Assembly and statewide LGBT advocacy group Georgia Equality in 2018, but a continued discussion looms over potentially discriminatory languag...

Catching Up with former ‘Mayor of East Atlanta’ Jimmie Scott Robinson

Newly arrived in Atlanta in 1996, Jimmie Scott Robinson had a simple goal: He wanted to date openly, party thoroughly and basically have the type of carefree, rollicking life a man could only find in the LGBT m...

Cathy Woolard on healing following divisive mayoral race and what’s next

When we reached Cathy Woolard the other day for an interview, we just barely reached her. Woolard has spent the last two-and-a-half years in the public eye campaigning for Atlanta mayor — a race she came in a c...

Georgia Equality Youth Policy Advisors present on World AIDS Day 2017

HIV-positive youth lobby lawmakers on tackling HIV, homelessness at World AIDS Day event

Georgia Equality's Youth HIV Policy Advisors (YHPA) hosted a World AIDS Day policy and action brunch on Dec. 1 at the Center for Civil and Human Rights, making a case for the link between housing and Atlanta's ...

Kyle Bailey: Mary Norwood for us, for marriage before it was popular

Mary Norwood’s moral compass led her to support the freedom to marry for same-sex couples when it was not politically expedient to do so. For her, right was right, and wrong was wrong, and she wasn’t afraid to ...

Alex Wan, Keisha Waites and De'Andre Pickett

Metro Atlanta LGBT candidates still in the hunt in important down-ballot races Dec. 5

While everyone's eyes are on the Atlanta mayoral race, there are still a good number of other important races that also went to a runoff — and still a good chance for major LGBT representation on the local and ...

World AIDS Day events scheduled throughout Georgia

World AIDS Day takes place Friday, Dec. 1, but there is a series events taking place throughout the week and weekend and across the state to mark the day. Sunday, Nov. 26 Rev. Dr. James Brewer-Calvert, Re...

Georgia Stonewall Democrats endorse Bottoms for Atlanta mayor

With two weeks to go until the Election Day runoffs, Georgia Stonewall Democrats released their endorsements, and this round they did something they had yet to do during this election cycle — endorse someone fo...

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

LGBTQ and Civil Rights Advocates Criticize Passage of Georgia Police Protection Bill

Dragging Out the Vote in 2020

Black LGBTQ Americans Are Disproportionately Financially Affected by COVID-19, Report Finds

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

New Documentary Follows Life of Gay Disney Songwriter Howard Ashman

‘The Ellen DeGeneres’ Show Under Investigation Over Claims of a Toxic Work Environment

LGBTQ Shows and Characters Pick Up Emmy Nominations

Anti-LGBTQ adoption bill advances to full Senate Judiciary Committee

Eric Paulk: American healthcare system is a dream deferred

Georgia Senate committee strips anti-LGBT language, passes adoption bill

2018 Legislative Preview: Lawmakers, activists weigh in on religious exemptions, hate crimes bills

Catching Up with former ‘Mayor of East Atlanta’ Jimmie Scott Robinson

Cathy Woolard on healing following divisive mayoral race and what’s next

HIV-positive youth lobby lawmakers on tackling HIV, homelessness at World AIDS Day event

Kyle Bailey: Mary Norwood for us, for marriage before it was popular

Metro Atlanta LGBT candidates still in the hunt in important down-ballot races Dec. 5

World AIDS Day events scheduled throughout Georgia

Georgia Stonewall Democrats endorse Bottoms for Atlanta mayor

New Documentary Follows Life of Gay Disney Songwriter Howard Ashman

LGBTQ and Civil Rights Advocates Criticize Passage of Georgia Police Protection Bill

Dragging Out the Vote in 2020

Black LGBTQ Americans Are Disproportionately Financially Affected by COVID-19, Report Finds

Trump Staffer Terminated from USAID Upon Anti-LGBTQ Twitter Tirade

Savannah City Council Unanimously Passes Non-discrimination Protections for LGBTQ People

Creep of the Week: Mike Pompeo

4 in 10 Black LGBTQ Men Experience Police Discrimination, Study Finds

LGBTQ Atlanta City Councilman Antonio Brown Indicted for Fraud

New Study Reveals HIV Misinformation and Stigma Common Among Americans

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