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Out Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields Resigns Following Police Shooting of Rayshard Brooks

Out Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields has resigned from her position following the police killing of Rayshard Brooks in Downtown Atlanta. Brooks, a 27-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by police on Sa...

Mayor Keisha Bottoms Announces Advisory Council for Reopening Atlanta

On the heels of Gov. Brian Kemp announcing plans to reopen Georgia for business amid the coronavirus, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Bottoms has announced she’s created an advisory council to create a similar reopening p...

TRANScending Barriers to Host Transgender Day of Visibility Event at City Hall

TRANScending Barriers will be hosting a Transgender Day of Visibility event on March 31 at Atlanta City Hall. Presented with support from the Office of Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, the event, which commemorat...

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...

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

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

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

Dragging Out the Vote in 2020

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

Out Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields Resigns Following Police Shooting of Rayshard Brooks

Mayor Keisha Bottoms Announces Advisory Council for Reopening Atlanta

TRANScending Barriers to Host Transgender Day of Visibility Event at City Hall

City of Atlanta Launches Biennial Report on LGBTQ Affairs

City of Atlanta Launches LGBTQ Resource Website

Mayor Bottoms Hosts Inaugural Black Gay Pride Reception

Mayor of Atlanta Solidifies Opposition to Conversion Therapy

Mayor of Atlanta Kicks off Pride Week with Inaugural Pride Reception

From Whence We Came: Our LGBTQ ATL History

Patrick Saunders: Gather, resist, repeat

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

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

LGBTQ Atlanta City Councilman Antonio Brown Indicted for Fraud

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