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Buddy Carter at a town hall in Brunswick.

‘I don’t want ’em:’ Georgia congressman praises transgender troop ban at town hall

Georgia Congressman Buddy Carter showed his support for a ban on transgender troops in the U.S. military during a town hall meeting Wednesday night in Brunswick. The Washington Post's Dave Weigel reports tha...

Your 2016 Election: By The Numbers

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Your 2016 LGBT Georgia local, county, legislative and statewide race roundup

U.S. Senate Democratic newcomer Jim Barksdale has been polling around 10 to 15 points lower than his incumbent Republican opponent Sen. Johnny Isakson. But Isakson needs to break 50 percent plus 1 vote to av...

Controversial presidential race overshadowing important LGBT Georgia races

Border walls. Pneumonia. The troops. Deplorables. Fingers on the button. Assaults at rallies. And as Bernie Sanders would put it, those “damn emails.” The American public has been inundated with an amount of...

Runoffs and tough losses for LGBT candidates in Tuesday’s Georgia primaries

The long wait to see Georgia's first openly gay male elected to the state legislature will continue at least another six months. 11 openly LGBT candidates were in the running in 10 different races in Georgia...