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Georgia anti-LGBT villains of the year

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...