NAACP Backs Equality Act
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored people (NAACP), the country’s oldest civil rights organization for African Americans, has publicly endorsed the Equality Act, reported NBC News.The Eq...
McCain’s Successor Has Anti-LGBTQ Voting Record
Recently-deceased Arizona senator John McCain will be replaced by a former Republican senator, Jon Kyl, who has a history of opposition to LGBTQ rights.The choice was announced by the governor of Arizona, D...
5 LGBTQ things you need to know today, April 19
1. Two members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee criticized Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo for his anti-LGBT statements. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) cited Pompeo's opposition to gay rights as a...
5 LGBT things you need to know today, Jan. 10
1. Finally, after nearly 70 years, the US Department of State issued a formal apology for the "Lavender Scare."2. Cuba won't allow one of its LGBT rights activists out of the country, the Washington Bla...
FDA opens door to ending gay blood donation ban
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration signaled Tuesday that it is reevaluating its policy on blood donations by gay and bisexual men, less than a year after changing its former policy and less than two months s...
Letter to the editor: Why President Obama and Georgia needs the LBGTQ community in November
In a tongue-in-cheek, but pointed article, Newsweek Magazine nicknamed President Obama as “the first gay President.” This was an editorial comment on President Obama’s firm support of same-sex marriage, employm...
Ga. GOP Senate candidate urges state not to defend gay marriage lawsuit
Art Gardner, running in a packed field for the GOP nomination to replace Saxby Chambliss in the U.S. Senate, issued a statement today in support of Lambda Legal's class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday seeking to o...
Gay Georgia Stonewall Dems back Kyle Williams in state senate race to replace Jason Carter
The Georgia Stonewall Democrats endorsed Kyle Williams in the heated race to fill Jason Carter's seat as the former president's grandson vies to become the state's next governor. If Williams wins, he would beco...
Gay candidate Kyle Williams in heated race with Elena Parent for Ga. senate seat
The race to replace state Sen. Jason Carter for the District 42 seat has become a bit of a bumpy one in recent weeks. The two Democratic candidates, Kyle Williams, an attorney from Decatur who also chairs the D...
Gay lawyer to run for Jason Carter’s Ga. Senate seat
Decatur lawyer Kyle Williams is running for the state Senate seat currently held by Jason Carter.Carter announced weeks ago he is running for governor against Republican Nathan Deal.Williams, ...
Historic vote — ENDA passes in Senate
Today the U.S. Senate voted to approve the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, a law that prohibits employers from discriminating agaisnt LGBT people in the workforce.
The vote was 64 to 32 with all 55 Democrats voting in favor and several Republicans also casting their vote in favor, including Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona). Georgia Republican Senators Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isackson do not support ENDA.