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UT Alumni Help Pride Center After Legislative Backstab

The Pride Center at the University of Tennessee has been defunded by that state's Legislature. Also defunded: several inclusion and diversity initiatives at the Knoxville campus. Law-based targeted attacks on m...

5 LGBTQ things you need to know today, April 16

1. Late last Friday, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. military's trans ban cannot be implemented. Judge Marsha Pechman, of the Western District of Washington, said that the second version of Trump's March ba...

Georgia Equality releases first endorsement list

Georgia Equality recently released its first round of endorsements for the Democratic primary elections, which will take place on May 22. Additional endorsements will follow, especially after the advance voting...

Half of LGBTQ legislative caucus face challenges to seats, gay attorney running in Brookhaven

The electoral spring of 2018 opens with a run. Several, in fact. There are four openly LGTBQ representatives in the Georgia Legislature. Two of them face opposition in their upcoming races. Whatever weather fal...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Jan. 24

1. Remember that "Lavender Scare" apology that the US State Department made a few weeks ago? Well, that seems to be null and void, given that the apology was removed from the government website, along with othe...