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BREAKING: Human Rights Campaign Endorses Jon Ossoff for U.S. Senate

In a Voice exclusive, the Human Rights Campaign has endorsed Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff in the 2020 U.S. Senate race. Osoff is challenging Republican incumbent David Perdue who won the seat in 2015. Huma...

Cathy Woolard Endorses Teresa Tomlinson for Senate

Cathy Woolard, the former Atlanta City Council President and the first openly gay elected official in Georgia, has endorsed Teresa Tomlinson for U.S. Senate. Tomlinson, who was elected as the first female ma...

LGBTQ Ally Jon Ossoff is Running for Senate in 2020

Former congressional candidate and LGBTQ ally Jon Ossoff has announced that he will be challenging Republican David Purdue for a seat in the U.S. Senate in 2020 during an appearance on “The Last Word” on MSNBC....

Jaha Howard, the disco ball from Backstreet and Jungle and rainbow crosswalks

2017 Year In Review: Top local LGBT news stories of 2017

Take a step back to look at the local LGBT news landscape in Georgia in 2017 and you might wince. An anti-LGBT candidate wins a Georgia Congressional race, multiple deaths in the transgender community, an early...

Democrats line up to ‘flip the 7th’ Congressional District

Following the nationwide move to “flip the 6th” Congressional District earlier this year, Democrats in Georgia’s 7th see a similar blue light at the end of a long red tunnel. “ has been missing in action. He...

Atlanta march kicks off $20,000 fundraiser for transgender nonprofits

On July 26, President Donald Trump issued a series of tweets claiming the US military “will not accept or allow” transgender people in the armed forces due to a burden of “tremendous medical costs and disruptio...

Georgia Voice 2017 Best of Atlanta winners: People

Business Person Justin Ziegler (Common Ground Real Estate) It was a close call, but Common Ground Real Estate President Justin Ziegler (www.commongroundrealestate.com) came out on top as your favorite busin...

Mixed emotions as Karen Handel takes over 6th District seat

It was about 10 p.m. on June 20 when a tangible mood shift fell over the Westin Atlanta Perimeter hotel. The crowd, packed tightly into a ballroom, spilling out into the hallways and foyer and even the outside ...

6th District Congressional candidate Karen Handel against gay adoption.

Anti-LGBT Karen Handel wins 6th District race

Former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel pulled out a win against Democratic upstart Jon Ossoff on Tuesday in the most expensive House race in US history. Handel was up 52.5 percent to 47.5 percent with 8...

Karen Handel: ‘My faith calls me to a different place’ on gay adoption

6th Congressional District candidate Karen Handel appears to be doubling down on her much publicized 2010 comments on gay adoption, telling both a Reporter Newspapers writer and the mother of an LGBT child that...

Atlanta LGBT families rally around ‘ally’ Democrat Jon Ossoff at meet-and-greet

Jon Ossoff entered the home of Roswell couple Matt and Barry Levesque on June 9 to a cheering crowd, with parents and children of all ages running up to meet him. Ossoff, the Democratic candidate running to ...

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

Trump’s Own AIDS Council Opposes His Anti-trans Health Rule

More Trans People Have Been Murdered in 2020 than All of 2019

LGBTQ and Civil Rights Advocates Criticize Passage of Georgia Police Protection Bill

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

New Documentary Follows Life of Gay Disney Songwriter Howard Ashman

‘The Ellen DeGeneres’ Show Under Investigation Over Claims of a Toxic Work Environment

LGBTQ Shows and Characters Pick Up Emmy Nominations

BREAKING: Human Rights Campaign Endorses Jon Ossoff for U.S. Senate

Cathy Woolard Endorses Teresa Tomlinson for Senate

LGBTQ Ally Jon Ossoff is Running for Senate in 2020

2017 Year In Review: Top local LGBT news stories of 2017

Democrats line up to ‘flip the 7th’ Congressional District

Atlanta march kicks off $20,000 fundraiser for transgender nonprofits

Georgia Voice 2017 Best of Atlanta winners: People

Mixed emotions as Karen Handel takes over 6th District seat

Anti-LGBT Karen Handel wins 6th District race

Karen Handel: ‘My faith calls me to a different place’ on gay adoption

Atlanta LGBT families rally around ‘ally’ Democrat Jon Ossoff at meet-and-greet

Trump’s Own AIDS Council Opposes His Anti-trans Health Rule

More Trans People Have Been Murdered in 2020 than All of 2019

New Documentary Follows Life of Gay Disney Songwriter Howard Ashman

LGBTQ and Civil Rights Advocates Criticize Passage of Georgia Police Protection Bill

Dragging Out the Vote in 2020

Black LGBTQ Americans Are Disproportionately Financially Affected by COVID-19, Report Finds

Trump Staffer Terminated from USAID Upon Anti-LGBTQ Twitter Tirade

Savannah City Council Unanimously Passes Non-discrimination Protections for LGBTQ People

Creep of the Week: Mike Pompeo

4 in 10 Black LGBTQ Men Experience Police Discrimination, Study Finds

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