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Butts-Mehre Heritage Hall, the University of Georgia football team's training facility.

UGA football equipment manager arrested after hidden shower cam found

A hidden shower camera has led to the arrest of the University of Georgia's equipment manager. The alleged perpetrator is Kevin Purvis, age 37, associate equipment manager for the UGA football team. Purvis, of ...

Melissa Carter: UGA — and me — headed for the Rose Bowl

When it was announced last weekend that the University of Georgia would be playing in the Rose Bowl, I thought it ironic because I was selected to be in the Rose Bowl parade eight months ago. I have watched ...

Simon Williamson, columnist with Georgia Voice

Simon Williamson: Our local governments need to get bold

On Facebook, I follow a philosopher here at the University of Georgia who often writes about how our local government doesn’t strike hard enough back at some of the hideous laws that are vomited out of our stat...

Georgia LGBT students honored at Lavender Graduations

Each year, thousands of Georgia college students don caps and gowns, preparing to enter the hallowed life phase of “adult.” Many of these students are honored through their individual schools, athletic departme...

UGA HEROs golf tournament raises thousands to benefit kids affected by HIV/AIDS

Nearly 100 golfers turned out on a breezy Monday for the 11th annual UGA HEROs benefit tournament in Roswell, which raised more than $13,000 benefitting kids and young adults affected by HIV/AIDS. “I’d never...

Spruce up apartments for spring with container gardens

It’s easy to envision a vibrant lawn and sprawling, raised-bed vegetable garden if you’re an Atlanta homeowner. But for the city’s ever-growing number of apartment and condo dwellers, there are plenty of ways t...

UGA choirs bring LGBT oratorio ‘Considering Matthew Shepard’ to Atlanta Saturday

Grammy winner Craig Hella Johnson teams up with the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia this weekend to bring a piece of LGBT history to Atlanta. Johnson’s latest work, “Considering Mat...

Spirituality, recognizing privilege themes at 2017 LGBT Connect Conference in Athens

More than 200 LGBT students, faculty and allies joined together at the University of Georgia’s third annual Connect Conference this year, the largest the event has been. Meg Evans, director of the UGA LGBT R...

Transgender teen making mark at University of Georgia

When Mars Hallman fought to get a Gay-Straight Alliance started at his high school in Nashville, Georgia (population: 5,000) last year, he hadn't yet come out as transgender or gender nonconforming, fearing tha...

Out actor Tituss Burgess talks gay stereotypes, Tina Fey and that ‘ode to black penis’

The Internet loves a good penis pun. One of 2015’s biggest breakout stars, Tituss Burgess, discovered this fact last year, when the “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” actor’s already-escalating showbiz profile reac...

Atlanta trans activist Raquel Willis on gender identity, race on WABE

Caitlyn Jenner may be one of the most high-profile transgender women in America, but there's plenty of local trans activists who are doing the work to educate the straight, lesbian, gay and bisexual communities...

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

White House Livestreams Anti-LGBTQ Sermon

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

Brookhaven Becomes Seventh Georgia Municipality to Outlaw LGBTQ Discrimination

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

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

Behind the Scenes: “Maybe Happy Ending, The Musical!”