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Atlanta celebrates Stonewall Week

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The GA Safe Schools Coalition spoke at a Make a Statement Rally

The official Atlanta Pride festival doesn’t take place until Oct. 8-10, but the city rolled out a rainbow of events at the end of June to mark the 41st anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.

The 1969 rebellion against police harassment of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City, is widely credited with sparking the modern gay rights movement.

Among the many events for Atlanta’s Stonewall Week was the showing of “Stonewall Uprising,” a documentary about the rebellion, for a week-long run at the Midtown Arts Cinema. The June 26 screening was followed by a panel discussion comparing Stonewall to the September 2009 police raid on the Atlanta Eagle.

East Side Pride draws diverse crowd to Clarkston

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The first-ever East Side Pride drew a diverse crowd to Clarkston’s Milam Park on June 26 for an afternoon of cooking out, dancing, lawn games and playing on the playground — all while building community for LGBT people who live east of Atlanta.

“I think this year’s picnic was a great launching point,” said Lorrie King, organizer of East Side Pride with her husband, Clarkston City Councilmember Adam White.

King estimated that as many as 125 people dropped in over the course of the afternoon, including several who said they had to see with their own eyes a Pride event in the eastern suburb.

The very best of LGBT Atlanta

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Best of Atlanta
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This issue of the Georgia Voice marks a milestone: our very first Best of Atlanta awards, which will be an annual event.

While our seasoned staff has worked on “Best Of” issues before, the task still initially seemed daunting for a new media outlet: Voting began in early May, barely two months after the launch of our website, and we were hopeful but not entirely certain how readers would respond.

But respond you did. Thousands of votes were cast in both the open nominations and multiple choice finalists phases of voting, and many of our finalists used their own social media networks to rally their fans to push them into the top spot.

For rocker Melissa Etheridge, music is means for evolution

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Culture
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Lesbian rocker Melissa Etheridge

Melissa Etheridge’s list of accomplishments is long even for a celebrity: In the 22 years since her first major label album debuted, she’s released 10 studio records, come out as a lesbian, won two Grammys and an Oscar, become the mother of four children, survived breast cancer, and been an outspoken advocate for LGBT rights, environmental awareness and other issues.

But the rocker, 49, isn’t slowing down. In April, she released her 10th album, “Fearless Love,” followed by a tour that brings her to Atlanta’s Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre on July 23.

“I love Atlanta. It’s always a great place to play — this mecca in the middle of the South,” Etheridge says in a July 5 interview from New York City, where she enjoyed July 4 fireworks the night before.

LGBT activists found ‘Act Out Savannah’

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Georgia
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Cody Patterson forms LGBT rights group in Savannah

Savannah LGBT activists are forming the group “Act Out Savannah” in response to recent attacks and alleged attacks on gay residents, according to a press release issued today.

“In response to the vile and vicious attacks on fellow members of the GLBT community of Savannah, and in response to the City and Police Department’s failure to maintain a safe and healthy environment for our community, the fiercest of Savannah’s activists have joined together to bring the fight for equal protection, equal rights and equal justice to the streets,” states the release.