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Kennesaw State updating class management system to help transgender students

Kennesaw State University is in the process of changing its online class management system to allow students to list both their preferred name and pronoun – a change brought on after complaints from the school'...

Students protest as Georgia AG Sam Olens officially named Kennesaw State president

The state Board of Regents voted Wednesday to name Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens as Kennesaw State University president. Olens replaces Dan Papp in a move that's drawn protest from students and faculty ups...

Georgia, 10 other states file lawsuit over guidance for transgender students

Georgia Republican leaders outraged over the Obama administration’s guidance for transgender students in U.S. public schools are making good on their promise to challenge the directive. Officials in 10 states, ...

Nathan Deal leaves Georgia transgender bathroom rules up to school districts

Four days after the White House issued a directive to school districts nationwide affirming transgender students' rights to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal and Atto...

Georgia Republicans to Deal, Olens: Block ‘harmful’ transgender bathroom rules

A group of Republicans in Georgia's Senate are calling on Gov. Nathan Deal and Attorney General Sam Olens to file a federal lawsuit to block the White House's directive to public schools over transgender bathro...

Gay state employees in Georgia, here are your spouse’s new benefits

A memo went out Tuesday to 90,000 state employees in Georgia notifying them of the employment benefits that same-sex spouses are eligible for now that marriage equality is the law of the land. Check out this op...

What happens to Georgia’s same-sex marriage case after U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling?

Oral arguments on same-sex marriage are taking place today at the U.S. Supreme Court with a decision likely in June. Georgia is one of the remaining states where same-sex marriage is banned via a constitutional...

Georgia attorney general on same-sex marriage ruling: We will not be Alabama

Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens is trying to ease some minds worried that his defense of the state's same-sex marriage ban will foreshadow Alabama-level shenanigans should the Supreme Court legalize same-sex...

Simon Williamson: Kelvin Cochran does not belong in civil service

I applauded when Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed fired Atlanta’s fire chief; I jumped higher than the Colorado Rockies, did both the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers parts to a new Macarena of my own creation, and whoop...

Federal judge makes way for attorneys to take Georgia same-sex marriage case straight to 11th Circuit Court of Appeals

U.S. District Judge William Duffey paved the way for the attorneys in the Georgia same-sex marriage case to take their case directly to the 11th Circuit of Appeals as court documents continue to fly in one of t...

Lambda Legal agrees with motion to stay Georgia gay marriage case until after high court rules

Lambda Legal late Tuesday filed a response saying it does not oppose the state's motion to stay a ruling in Georgia's same-sex marriage case until after the Supreme Court makes it ruling on marriage bans this s...

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

Record Number of Businesses Earn Perfect 100 on HRC Corporate Equality Index

White House Livestreams Anti-LGBTQ Sermon

Group Demands ICE Release Trans Woman in ‘Life-or-Death Medical Crisis’

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

RuPaul Set to Host SNL

Katie Sowers to Make History as First Openly LGBTQ Coach at Super Bowl

Ryan Murphy to Receive GLAAD Award for Accelerating LGBTQ Visibility in Media