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Barney Frank drums up LGBT support for Hillary Clinton in Atlanta

As the first day of the GOP convention got underway in Cleveland last Monday, openly gay former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) was in Atlanta to mobilize the city's LGBT community to support former Secretary of ...

Ex-Atlanta fire chief calls for passage of anti-gay bill on Capitol Hill

Kelvin Cochran, the former Atlanta fire chief fired last year after publishing an anti-gay book, was in the spotlight on Tuesday at a congressional hearing where he testified in favor of the anti-LGBT First Ame...

Anti-gay preacher bashes gay marriage, transgender rights at Capitol rally [PHOTOS]

Anti-gay preacher Franklin Graham decried marriage equality and transgender rights at a prayer rally Wednesday afternoon at the Georgia State Capitol. Thousands of people packed Liberty Plaza for the event, whi...

Confronting Georgia’s next LGBT civil rights battle and more

The year began with religious freedom controversies, thanks to Atlanta’s former fire chief and a Republican senator, but by the beginning of summer, a watershed moment in the fight for marriage equality had occ...

Judge rules Kelvin Cochran lawsuit against city of Atlanta, Mayor Reed can move forward

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the lawsuit filed by former Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran against the city and Mayor Kasim Reed will move forward, however several of Cochran's claims were dismissed. ...