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Rep. John Lewis Reintroduces Inclusive Adoption Bill into House of Representatives

Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) reintroduced the Every Child Deserves a Family Act into the House of Representatives yesterday (June 4), which would eliminate discrimination in foster care based on sexual orientation or...

WATCH: Georgia Representative John Lewis Supports Equality Act

Georgia Representative John Lewis has come out in support of the Equality Act in a new video from the Human Rights Campaign.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ougdcZhcReoLewis was one of the “Big Six” lead...

Double firsts: Gay African-American man picked to lead Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta tapped Raphael Bostic to become its new president and CEO on Monday, making him the first African-American and first openly gay person to head any of the Fed's 12 regional ba...

What democracy looks like: 60,000 march for women, social justice in Atlanta [PHOTOS]

An estimated 60,000 people took to the streets of Atlanta on Saturday to march in support of women's rights and social justice on President Donald Trump's first full day in office. Similar marches took place in...

Georgia Voice Best of Atlanta 2016 Winners: People

BUSINESS PERSON BOB FAWCETT - THE PET SETBob Fawcett (thepetset.com) has been a stalwart of Atlanta’s LGBT community since he opened the doors to his first location of The Pet Set in the ‘80s. He’s since g...

Fulton County HIV/AIDS task force unveils strategy to ‘end’ AIDS

There are alarming rates of new HIV/AIDS infections in Fulton County, and in an ongoing effort to combat the problem, the Fulton County Task Force on HIV/AIDS on Monday rolled out Phase II of their Strategy to ...

Hillary Clinton rallies in Atlanta as Black Lives Matter protest breaks out

Hillary Clinton made her first public campaign visit to Atlanta on Friday afternoon as numerous LGBT community members and allies looked on. The rally, held at Clark Atlanta University, was both a roll-out of t...

Activists in Action: Youth activist Quita Tinsley

Quita Tinsley, 25, is pursuing her master’s degree in Women’s Gender and Sexuality at Georgia State University while also working (for the past year) as the youth activist network organizer at SPARK Reproductiv...

Georgia Voice 2015 Best of Atlanta winners: People

BUSINESS PERSON EMILIO LOURDESGeorgia Tech graduate Emilio Lourdes has been managing The Havana Club for almost three years now, and the huge (15,000 square feet) Buckhead nightspot has never been more pop...

Longtime Atlanta LGBT activist passes away at 57

Longtime LGBT activist Rick Porter passed away on June 1 in what is believed to be from complications from HIV. The community will gather for a celebration of life ceremony on Saturday, June 20. Richard Alton ...

28th annual HRC Atlanta dinner looks beyond marriage

Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, was the keynote speaker at the 28th annual HRC Atlanta Gala Dinner & Silent Auction on May 2 at the Hyatt Regency, just days after the U.S. Supreme Court he...

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

Presidential Candidates Discuss LGBTQ Plans at HRC Town Hall

Activists Arrested in Sit-In Outside of Supreme Court during LGBTQ Employment Cases

Gay Prisoner Says LGBTQ Inmates Receive Disproportionate Solitary Confinement

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

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

Queer Restaurant? Of Course!

Grammy Award-winning All-male Chorus Chanticleer Reigns in Atlanta