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GLAAD Urges Georgia General Assembly to Pass Bills to Fight HIV/AIDS

GLAAD, the largest LGBTQ media advocacy group in the world, urged the Georgia General Assembly on Wednesday (February 13) to pass three state house bills to increase education on HIV/AIDS and equip Georgians wi...

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...

Georgia Senate approves medical marijuana law expansion to include AIDS

Pending the governor's signature, Georgia AIDS patients now have access to medical marijuana.Senate Bill 16 passed the Senate this morning with a vote of 45 to 6. It's a compromise version of the original H...

State Sen. Josh McKoon will not run for re-election in 2018

Josh McKoon (R-Columbus), the GOP senator known as the face behind the Georgia legislature’s “religious freedom” movement, announced yesterday he does not plan to run for re-election in 2018.The announcemen...

Is there a Georgia ‘religious freedom’ bill path suitable for all?

The biggest sticking point raised in Georgia's latest fight over a so-called “religious freedom” bill was the possibility that passage of the bill would lead to more LGBT discrimination, with the most often-cit...

Sen. McKoon’s five-minute Senate floor ‘religious freedom’ bill fake-out

State Sen. Josh McKoon (R-Columbus) turned heads (and quickened pulses) on the Senate floor this afternoon when he attempted to attach SB 129, his so-called "religious freedom" bill, to another House bill under...

Delta, hotel industry punished for speaking out against ‘religious freedom’ bill?

Last year, Delta Air Lines and numerous Atlanta-based corporations took a strong stand against the proposed “religious freedom” bill and helped defeat the measure in the final days of the session. This year, th...

Governor Deal: No medical marijuana for AIDS patients

State Rep. Allen Peake's medical marijuana bill is the talk of this year's legislative session—well, along with this other little bill that's gotten a little press. Heck, the Macon Republican's proposed legisla...

Lesbian Georgia state Rep. Simone Bell named to House leadership position

Rep. Simone Bell has been elected to a leadership position in the Georgia House Democratic Caucus. Bell, the first African-American out lesbian elected to a state legislature, was named House Minority Chief Dep...

State Rep. Keisha Waites attends LGBT leadership training at Harvard

State Rep. Keisha Waites, one of three openly gay members of the Georgia House of Representatives, recently graduated from the David Bohnett LGBT Leadership Fellowship program at the Harvard Kennedy School....

GA Voice endorses Kyle Williams in state Senate District 42 race

In the campaign to replace Jason Carter as the new state Senator representing Dis- trict 42, a lot of talk has been making the rounds on who is the more progressive can- didate: Kyle Williams or Elena Parent. ...

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

Buttigieg Rejects O’Rourke Proposal to Tax Anti-LGBTQ Churches

Gay Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Slams Facebook for Allowing False Political Ads

Presidential Candidates Discuss LGBTQ Plans at HRC Town Hall

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

UPDATE: Billy Porter Confirmed to Play Fairy Godmother in “Cinderella” Remake

Olympic Gold Medalist Kerron Clement Comes Out

Billy Porter May be Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother in New Musical