Sing Them Out
First, we want to shout out 2019 as the 50th anniversary of the creating of the Georgia Gay Liberation Front.Five weeks after Stonewall, the catalyst for the GGLF was the August 5, 1969 police raid on the A...
Google pledges funds for Stonewall commemoration
Google has committed a million dollars to help commemorate the Stonewall Rebellion, according to Gay City News NYC.The tech corporation announced the donation on June 18th, right at the start of Manhattan's...
Eating My Words: Stonewall: From Full Guts to Glory
The Stonewall Rebellion was one of at least six remarkable events in 1969. This week, I’m pairing those events with dining advice.Let’s start with man’s first walk on the moon. I remember sitting with my pa...
DeKalb judge comes out as bisexual
DeKalb County State Court Judge Mike Jacobs has come out as LGBTQ, according to Project Q. Jacobs, a former state lawmaker, is the first openly LGBTQ trial judge to serve on the DeKalb State Court bench. By com...
Wanda Sykes, Tig Notaro, Blondie coming to Atlanta for Stonewall anniversary
The Atlanta Pride Committee and The LGBT Institute at The Center for Civil and Human Rights are partnering with the Fox Theatre to bring a two-night comedy, music and drag showcase to town to celebrate the 29th...
Ryan Lee: Generational conflicts in our movement, and me
One of the curses of liberalism is the generational tension that almost destines today’s radical to be perceived as tomorrow’s sellout.The Mattachine Society had been advocating for “homophile” equality for...
5 LGBT things you need to know today, Feb. 6
1. Prairieland, America's newest detention center for immigration detainees, opened last week in Texas. It has a separate, remote pod specifically for transgender detainees, which some LGBT advocates say may do...
Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance formed to counter city’s male-dominated gay scene
On Oct. 9, throngs of onlookers cheered as rainbow-festooned floats wound through Midtown, led by LGBT men and women working in unity.For Lorraine Fontana, a founding mother of Atlanta’s lesbian feminist sc...
5 LGBT things you need to know today, Oct. 12
1. “We need a good jobs governor, not an HB2 governor.” North Carolina Republican Gov. Pat McCrory and Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper went toe-to-toe in a feisty gubernatorial debate Tuesday night.2...
Georgia Gay Liberation Front and Atlanta’s first Pride march
It was August 5, 1969, barely a month after New York City's Stonewall Riots kicked off the modern LGBT rights movement in America. LGBT people across the country were simmering, Atlanta included—everyone was at...
Melissa Carter: Stonewall-sized expectations
If you’re gay you’ve certainly heard of the Stonewall riots, but have you actually ever been to the bar where it took place? I have and it was nothing like what I expected.I wasn’t born when those demonstra...