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City of Atlanta Launches Biennial Report on LGBTQ Affairs

Join Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and the City of Atlanta for a moment in history: the official launch of the Atlanta’s first-ever Biennial Report on LGBTQ Affairs. https://www.facebook.com/COALGBTQ/photos/gm....

City of Atlanta Launches LGBTQ Resource Website

The City of Atlanta and Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms have launched a resource website that provides housing, health, and economic information to LGBTQ Atlantans. “We prioritized work related to the LGBTQ commu...

Mayor Bottoms Hosts Inaugural Black Gay Pride Reception

Mayor of Atlanta Keisha Lance Bottoms has announced she will be hosting an inaugural reception for Black LGBTQ Pride this year. Mayor Bottoms kicks off one of the largest black LGBTQ pride festivals in the c...

Mayor of Atlanta Solidifies Opposition to Conversion Therapy

Mayor of Atlanta Keisha Lance Bottoms has introduced a legislation opposing conversion therapy in the city and calling on the rest of the state to follow suit. This resolution, which was passed unanimously b...

Mayor of Atlanta Kicks off Pride Week with Inaugural Pride Reception

Rainbow lights and rainbow cupcakes. Drag queens and an open bar. A proposal and a comedy show. The Mayor’s Inaugural Pride Reception was a night of fun for Atlanta’s LGBTQ community which successfully kicked o...

From Whence We Came: Our LGBTQ ATL History

Think you know gay Atlanta history? We start in 1826. Come see what we found.

Patrick Saunders, Editor of Georgia Voice

Patrick Saunders: Gather, resist, repeat

This time last year, I announced in this space that I was accepting the position of editor of Georgia Voice. The reason I gave was tied into what happened the previous November. “Of the numerous reactions to...

Patrick Saunders: The Atlanta mayoral results, race and the Atlanta way

So the Atlanta mayoral election is over and about half of you are pissed off. At least that's what it seems like from the conversations we've had with you and with the dialogue on our and others' social media c...

Cathy Woolard on healing following divisive mayoral race and what’s next

When we reached Cathy Woolard the other day for an interview, we just barely reached her. Woolard has spent the last two-and-a-half years in the public eye campaigning for Atlanta mayor — a race she came in a c...

Bottoms declares victory as Norwood asks for recount in Atlanta mayoral race

Keisha Lance Bottoms declared victory in Tuesday's Atlanta mayoral race but her opponent Mary Norwood is demanding a recount. Bottoms bested Norwood by a mere 759 votes in the runoff election according to unoff...

Kyle Bailey: Mary Norwood for us, for marriage before it was popular

Mary Norwood’s moral compass led her to support the freedom to marry for same-sex couples when it was not politically expedient to do so. For her, right was right, and wrong was wrong, and she wasn’t afraid to ...

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

Rachel Slawson to be First Bisexual Miss USA Contestant

Record Number of Businesses Earn Perfect 100 on HRC Corporate Equality Index

White House Livestreams Anti-LGBTQ Sermon

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Lizzo Says She Wants Her Music to Make Black Trans Women Feel Good

RuPaul Set to Host SNL

Katie Sowers to Make History as First Openly LGBTQ Coach at Super Bowl