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Simon Williamson, columnist with Georgia Voice

Simon Williamson: The power of shutting up and listening

I don’t really watch movies, but I am married to someone who reviews them for a living, so I have been dragged around some of the more high-profile ones this film season, along with the odd low-profile indie (“...

Laverne Cox on Cosmopolitan

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Jan. 23

1. The 2018 Oscar nominations were announced this morning. Among the LGBT notables were "Call Me by Your Name," which got nods for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Picture and Best Actor for lead Timothée Chalamet...

Simon Williamson, columnist with Georgia Voice

Simon Williamson: I find it hard to be forgiving

My cousin, about 15 years older than me, who grew up under the real throngs of apartheid South Africa, the rails of which were lubricated by ideology similar to what you know of the American South, was really s...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Feb. 10

1. A new proposed bill in Texas would let therapists who practice conversion therapy keep their licenses, even if conversion therapy is banned. 2. Doctors say a man in Canada contracted a Truvada-resistant s...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Jan. 23

1. The baker of Donald Trump's inauguration cake got a lot of flak over the weekend for replicating Duff Goldman's 2013 cake for the Obamas. But she's also not taking any profit: all proceeds the Trump team pai...