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5 LGBT things you need to know today, June 27

1. Pope Francis said on Sunday that Christians and the Roman Catholic Church should seek forgiveness from gay people for the way they have treated them. 2. A survivor of the Orlando shooting attended the NYC...

National LGBT Pride: Central Alabama Pride raises hope for Birmingham, surrounding cities

Pride celebrations are multiplying at a rapid pace across the globe, even in the most peculiar of places, such as the deep southern pockets of the Bible Belt, where the politics wreak of a radical fundamentalis...

Ryan Lee: Death before dishonor

The line that forms outside of Bulldogs on weekends tells a story of gay fear, progress and hope. Instead of oral history, it's a bit of “aura” history: individuals occupying a space and writing a narrative tha...

Simon Williamson, columnist with Georgia Voice

Simon Williamson: Taking refuge in gay spaces

We go to gay bars to get away from everyone else, so the shooting in Orlando was an assault on our places; places that exist specifically because the general public pushed us to find spaces out of their sight. ...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, June 23

1. Meet Erin O'Flaherty, the first openly gay Miss America contestant. 2. The NYPD unveiled a rainbow-themed vehicle before the city's Pride march on Sunday. 3. Oscar-winning screenwriter and gay activist...

National LGBT Pride: Ramped up security being instituted at Pride events

Pride month in the U.S. took on a somber tone when a gunman opened fire at Pulse, an Orlando gay nightclub on Latin night, killing 49 and injuring more than 50 LGBT people of color and one identified straight a...

Darian Aaron: America, your hands are not clean in Orlando massacre

On Sunday, June 12 at 7:17 a.m., I awoke to a frantic text message from my best friend of over twenty years informing me of a shooting at a gay club in Orlando. Not yet fully awake, the seriousness of his text ...

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, LGBT leaders meet to discuss safety post-Orlando

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed met with 35 LGBT leaders and business owners on June 21 to discuss public safety concerns following the June 12 mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in the heart of Orlando that clai...

UPDATE: ‘Satan made gays and transgender’ sign vandalized at Buford church

Someone didn't take too kindly to the anti-LGBT sign outside Back to the Bible Holiness Church in Buford, Georgia. 11Alive was first to report the existence of the "Satan made gays and transgender" sign on Sund...

Your guide to LGBT Atlanta’s fundraisers and tribute concerts for Orlando shooting victims

Atlanta's LGBT community continues to step up to help the victims of the shooting at Orlando LGBT nightclub Pulse. So many fundraisers and tributes have been created that it's hard to keep up, so here's a handy...

Your Uber rides to and from these Atlanta gay bars and locations are free this weekend

Uber's got you covered this weekend if you want to hit the bars and other LGBT locations in Atlanta. “Like people across the world, we were deeply shocked and saddened by the recent murders at a gay nightclu...

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

Biden Rallies LGBTQ Supporters, Denounces Trump at HRC Event

Ginsburg’s Death Leaves LGBTQ Rights on Supreme Court Vulnerable to Religious Claims

Former Methodist Church in Savannah Becomes Nondenominational Over LGBTQ Beliefs

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Jonathan Bennett Stars in Hallmark’s New LGBTQ-inclusive Christmas Rom-Com

Brandon Krajewski on Directing and Co-Writing ‘Stone | Fruit’

Cindy L. Abel Talks Her Doc ‘Surviving the Silence’