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Rally to stop anti-LGBTQ adoption bill SB 375

Hundreds rally against anti-LGBTQ adoption bill across from Georgia State Capitol

Around 200 people gathered across the street from the Georgia State Capitol on Thursday afternoon for the Rally To Stop SB 375, the anti-LGBTQ adoption bill that passed in the Senate last week and has quickly c...
William Ligon, Donzella James and Jeff Graham

LGBTQ bills to watch as end of legislative session nears

The 2018 legislative session had a promising outlook: there was bipartisan support for a hate crimes bill in Georgia and last year’s anti-LGBTQ amendments to the overhauled state adoption code were removed befo...
A rally against HB 757 in 2015.

Georgia Equality announces March 1 rally against SB 375

Minutes after the Georgia Senate voted in favor of an anti-LGBTQ adoption bill, statewide LGBTQ rights organization Georgia Equality announced a March 1 rally at Central Presbyterian Church, which is across the...
Senate Bill 375

Georgia Senate committee passes anti-LGBTQ adoption bill

The Georgia Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday morning passed a bill that would allow adoption agencies to refuse to place children with same-sex couples based on their religious beliefs. The bill would also...
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...
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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 ...
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