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Georgia State Sen. Jesse Stone (R-Waynesboro)

Georgia Senate committee strips anti-LGBT language, passes adoption bill

The Georgia Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday voted 8-2 in favor of a bill to update Georgia's adoption laws without an anti-LGBT provision that caused the bill to stall in the final days of last year's l...

Matthew Wilson and Meagan Hanson

Meet the gay man running for a state House seat in Brookhaven

Georgia’s House District 80, which encompasses Chamblee, Brookhaven and Sandy Springs, has long been a swing district. In 2015, former Georgia Tech quarterback Democrat Taylor Bennett — whose mother and sist...

Danica Roem, Kevin Spacey and Roy Moore

2017 Year In Review: Top 10 national LGBT news stories of the year

As many predicted, 2017 brought an end to the progressive Obama era and the beginning of an assault on LGBT rights from the new Trump administration. Below is a ranking of the 10 biggest LGBT stories of the yea...

Jeff Graham, Josh McKoon and Park Cannon

2018 Legislative Preview: Lawmakers, activists weigh in on religious exemptions, hate crimes bills

Passing a modernized adoption bill is a top priority for the General Assembly and statewide LGBT advocacy group Georgia Equality in 2018, but a continued discussion looms over potentially discriminatory languag...

Stephanie Beatriz of Brooklyn Nine-Nine

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Dec. 6

1. The hills are alive with the sound of wedding bells. In a constitutional court ruling announced yesterday, Austria became the 16th European nation to grant marriage equality for all its citizens. The court r...