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2017 Year In Review: Counting down Georgia’s anti-LGBT villains of the year

It’s no surprise that Trump's America has its fair share of villains. The LGBT community in Georgia has had to face their own set of political opponents in 2017. Some individuals attempt to mask their discrimin...

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...

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...

Property fathers: Atlanta gay couple flips houses to fund adoptions

Atlanta residents Josh and Joey Bolton-Rogers are now fathers of two children. But due to the cost of adoption, their family wouldn’t have been able to be completed without some extra income.“We just became...

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...

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 ...

Photo Gallery: Atlanta LGBT families meet-and-greet with Jon Ossoff

LGBT families from around Georgia's 6th Congressional District were invited to join the Young Democrats of Georgia Stonewall Caucus for a meet-and-greet with Jon Ossoff on June 9. Ossoff is a candidate running ...

Queer Georgia legislator gets cold shoulder, police called after Karen Handel questions

Karen Handel, Republican candidate for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, is still keeping quiet about her views on LGBT rights — even refusing to speak to a fellow elected official following a public debate...

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