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More than Half of LGBTQ Candidates Won This Year

Victory Fund, a political action committee that works to elect LGBTQ candidates, found that more than half openly LGBTQ candidates won their races this year, according to a report done by the Hill.244 of th...

Cathy Woolard on healing following divisive mayoral race and what’s next

When we reached Cathy Woolard the other day for an interview, we just barely reached her. Woolard has spent the last two-and-a-half years in the public eye campaigning for Atlanta mayor — a race she came in a c...

Alex Wan, Keisha Waites and De'Andre Pickett

Metro Atlanta LGBT candidates still in the hunt in important down-ballot races Dec. 5

While everyone's eyes are on the Atlanta mayoral race, there are still a good number of other important races that also went to a runoff — and still a good chance for major LGBT representation on the local and ...

Liliana Bakhtiari, Josh McNair and Cathy Woolard

LGBT groups’ endorsements roll in as potentially historic Election Day approaches

As the days dwindle to Election Day on Nov. 7, voters across Georgia — and especially in the city of Atlanta — are faced with choosing among a dizzying number of candidates in numerous races on the municipal, c...

Your 2016 LGBT Election Night Watch Guide

The whole world will be watching November 8 as the American electorate weighs in on one of the most contentious and dramatic presidential campaigns in modern history. Though Trump has earned the title of the “m...

Your 2016 LGBT Georgia local, county, legislative and statewide race roundup

U.S. SenateDemocratic newcomer Jim Barksdale has been polling around 10 to 15 points lower than his incumbent Republican opponent Sen. Johnny Isakson. But Isakson needs to break 50 percent plus 1 vote to av...

Will Atlanta elect its first openly LGBT mayor?

Cathy Woolard is used to being first and she intends to keep it that way. She was the first candidate to declare in the upcoming Atlanta mayoral race, the first openly gay official in Georgia history when elect...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, July 28

1. Chelsea Clinton talked about the GOP's anti-LGBT platform Wednesday in Philadelphia at an event hosted by the Human Rights Campaign and the Victory Fund, singling out conversion therapy in particular and cal...

Georgia LGBT groups release endorsements for May primaries

The days are dwindling. After months and months of knocking on doors, making calls, attending events and raising money, the first major test of the local election year occurs on May 24 with the primaries.Al...

Three candidates vie to be first openly gay men elected to Georgia General Assembly

In the second week of January 2001, out lesbian Karla Drenner took office in State House District 85 covering Avondale Estates, becoming the first openly gay member of the Georgia General Assembly. Since then, ...

Alex Wan gets key endorsements from LGBT organizations in Atlanta City Council race

Alex Wan, seeking re-election for District 6 on the Atlanta City Council, has been endorsed by Georgia Equality and the national Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund.“Through his work these past four years on City Counci...

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

Intersex Organizations Call out WHO for Classifying Intersex Traits as “Disorders”

Trump Admin Seeks to Roll Back Trans Health Care Protections in Obamacare

Donald Trump Releases Pride T-shirt

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Real Housewife Lisa Vanderpump Apologizes for Transphobic Joke about Erica Jayne

Farmers Market Jitters

“The Cake” Takes the Atlanta Stage

More than Half of LGBTQ Candidates Won This Year

Cathy Woolard on healing following divisive mayoral race and what’s next

Metro Atlanta LGBT candidates still in the hunt in important down-ballot races Dec. 5

LGBT groups’ endorsements roll in as potentially historic Election Day approaches

Your 2016 LGBT Election Night Watch Guide

Your 2016 LGBT Georgia local, county, legislative and statewide race roundup

Will Atlanta elect its first openly LGBT mayor?

5 LGBT things you need to know today, July 28

Georgia LGBT groups release endorsements for May primaries

Three candidates vie to be first openly gay men elected to Georgia General Assembly

Alex Wan gets key endorsements from LGBT organizations in Atlanta City Council race

Intersex Organizations Call out WHO for Classifying Intersex Traits as “Disorders”

Trump Admin Seeks to Roll Back Trans Health Care Protections in Obamacare

Donald Trump Releases Pride T-shirt

WATCH: Travel Issue Story Preview

Human Rights Campaign Close to Naming Next President: Sources

Real Housewife Lisa Vanderpump Apologizes for Transphobic Joke about Erica Jayne

ICE Has Been Placing LGBTQ Immigrants in Solitary Confinement

Taiwanese LGBTQ Couples Celebrate Marriage Equality with Mass Same-Sex Wedding

Georgia GOP Delivers Stealth Win for LGBTQ Parents

Standing Up for Our Bodies

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