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Parker Slams Media for Reporting Black Voters Won’t Back LGBTQ Candidates

The head of the LGBTQ Victory Institute took the media to task Friday amid a flurry of media reports Pete Buttigieg isn’t faring well in the South because black voters are reluctant to support a gay presidentia...

80 LGBTQ Candidates Win Races in Special Elections

At least 80 LGBTQ candidates won their races in yesterday’s special elections, reported Out. Of the total 111 candidates endorsed by the Victory Fund—more than any previous election year—80 won their electio...

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. Senate Democratic 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...

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

House Democrats Call for ICE to Release all Transgender Detainees

Trump Admin. Proposes More Anti-LGBTQ “Religious Freedom” Rules

Kanye West to Headline Evangelical Event Alongside Anti-LGBTQ Preachers

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Ryan Murphy to Receive GLAAD Award for Accelerating LGBTQ Visibility in Media

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

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