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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...

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...

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...

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...

Anti-gay HB 757 flyers spotted around Atlanta

The flyer spotted in Reynoldstown. If this is satire, someone's going to great lengths to make it happen. Flyers have been spotted in Reynoldstown, Cabbagetown and Midtown advertising a company that sell...

LGBT groups take fight against anti-gay bill to governor’s office [PHOTOS]

Representatives from Georgia Unites Against Discrimination, Georgia Equality, Human Rights Campaign and Lambda Legal sent a message to Gov. Nathan Deal on Wednesday—75,000 messages to be exact. That’s how ma...

Nathan Deal reacts as anti-gay ‘religious liberty’ bill backlash grows

It didn’t take long after the Georgia Senate passed a hybrid anti-gay so-called “religious freedom” bill on Friday for the first Georgia company to announce they were pulling out of the state—less than 10 minut...

Georgia Senate passes hybrid anti-gay ‘religious freedom’ bill

The Georgia Senate passed a hybrid so-called “religious freedom” bill Friday along party lines 38 to 14 after three hours of lively debate, leaving Georgia companies bracing for a possible boycott on the scale ...

Majority of Georgians support LGBT non-discrimination laws, oppose denial of service

The nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute released a new survey Thursday showing that two-thirds of Georgia residents support laws that would protect LGBT people against discrimination in employment, h...

Queer candidate Park Cannon wins House District 58 race

When Simone Bell resigned from her House District 58 seat last November, the number of LGBT voices left in the Georgia legislature went from three to two. 24-year-old political newcomer Park Cannon just upped t...

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

New Study Looks at Demographics of Queer-Identified People

Sanders Campaign Defends Accepting Joe Rogan Support Amid LGBTQ Backlash

Rush Center Names Simone Bell as New Interim Executive Director

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Lil Nas X and Other LGBTQ Celebs Rock the Grammys

Season 12 Cast of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Announced

Lizzo Says She Wants Her Music to Make Black Trans Women Feel Good