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Out2Enroll launches LGBT coalition to promote Obamacare under Trump

With President Trump taking action seen to undermine Obamacare — such as shortening the window of time for new insurance enrollments — a new LGBT coalition of more than 60 groups is launching to promote insuran...

Progressive groups release ‘Voices for Equity’ report on transgender access to healthcare

LGBT Americans are no strangers to the healthcare debate — but for transgender citizens, what protections exist, and how can healthcare providers and policy makers ensure that trans patients receive the best se...

Readers weigh in on how Georgia’s LGBT nonprofits have affected their lives

“Raising children to recognize and celebrate not only their own, but everyone's, full range of complex and unique human expressions is one of the primary focuses of my life. I believe that we can do that with r...

Georgia Voice examines LGBT nonprofit financial records to see how your dollars are spent

Atlanta’s LGBT nonprofits run the gamut: assisting homeless and transgender youth; raising awareness of issues related to inclusivity, feminism and people of color; educating and testing ATL-iens for HIV/AIDS; ...

State GOP lawmakers form ‘Obamacare repeal and replace task force’

Congressional Republicans are doing their best to ensure the Affordable Healthcare Act will be repealed at the federal level. Here in Georgia, state GOP lawmakers are doing their best to make sure the state is ...

Atlanta LGBT groups, allies plan community vigil at civil rights center

A diverse coalition of 25 different Atlanta-area organizations have signed onto a letter in response to the Sunday shooting at LGBT Orlando nightclub Pulse and are calling on the community to come together for ...

Friends, loved ones remember Charles Stevens, war vet and gay activist

More than 100 friends, family and loved ones gathered at the Phillip Rush Center on Saturday, May 16, to memorialize Charles Stevens, 87, who died on May 5. A gay activist who was active with such groups as...

Health Initiative’s Garden Party raises funds for LGBT health care

The Health Initiative held its 19th annual Garden Party on Sunday, May 17, at the Philip Rush Center to raise funds for the organization and also reward those in the community who are doing incredible work to s...

Health Initiative’s annual Garden Party funds Georgia LGBT programming

For 19 years, the Health Initiative (formerly the Atlanta Lesbian Cancer Initiative and then the Atlanta Lesbian Health Initiative) has been providing ongoing health care resources for LGBT people in metro Atla...

Georgia Equality Clinic receives LGBT medical award

Founders of the student-run Georgia Regents University's Equality Clinic in Augusta are this year’s recipients of the American Medical Student Association/Gay and Lesbian Medical Association’s LGBT Health Achie...

Atlanta-based Morehouse School of Medicine broadens resources into LGBT health care

The Morehouse School of Medicine is teaming with the Association of American Medical Colleges to offer more resources in the care of LGBT and intersex people. “Addressing health disparities in LGBT populatio...

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

The First Debate: Chaos Unchecked

Study Links Gender-affirming Medical Care to Better Mental Health Among Trans Kids

Donald Trump Nominates Amy Coney Barrett to Replace RBG on Supreme Court

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Jonathan Bennett Stars in Hallmark’s New LGBTQ-inclusive Christmas Rom-Com

Brandon Krajewski on Directing and Co-Writing ‘Stone | Fruit’

Cindy L. Abel Talks Her Doc ‘Surviving the Silence’