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Georgia Equality

William Ligon

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

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...

Jimmie Scott Robinson

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...