By Matt Hennie | Apr 24, 2018 | 10:48 AM
Stacey Evans – a former state lawmaker now seeking the Democratic nomination for governor – met with LGBT supports in Midtown Atlanta, pledging to fight for LGBT equality and to 'always be there for you.'
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By Matt Hennie | Apr 19, 2018 | 4:00 PM
Valerie Vie wants a rematch. So the attorney dusted off her campaign playbook from 2016 and is running again for a seat in Georgia House, this time hoping to beat the attorney that defeated her two years ago.
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By Matt Hennie | Apr 18, 2018 | 11:30 AM
Statewide LGBTQ organization Georgia Equality endorsed Stacey Abrams on Wednesday, a significant boost to the former state lawmaker's bid for the Democratic nomination for governor.
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By Matt Hennie | Apr 10, 2018 | 4:53 PM
Former state lawmaker Keisha Waites formally launched her campaign for Fulton County Commission chair, pledging to vocally support LGBT issues and boost the county's efforts at combatting its HIV epidemic.
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By Matt Hennie | Mar 26, 2018 | 6:09 PM
Rep. Earl Ehrhart – one of the most outspoken anti-gay lawmakers in Georgia – led an attack on the LGBTQ center and student programs at Kennesaw State University, questioning its funding and mocking gender neutral pronouns as 'fantasy language.'
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By Matt Hennie | Mar 23, 2018 | 11:44 AM
The four openly LGBTQ lawmakers in the Georgia House are running for re-election, but two of them – Reps. Park Cannon and Sam Park – face opponents and Park is being targeted by Republicans who want to unseat the first-term lawmaker.
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By Matt Hennie | Mar 8, 2018 | 5:32 PM
A hate crimes bill that would protect people based on sexual orientation and gender – though not gender identity – was approved by a key Republican-led committee in the Georgia House on Thursday.
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By Matt Hennie | Mar 7, 2018 | 9:16 AM
Rep. Earl Ehrhart – the longest serving Republican in the Georgia House and its most outspoken anti-LGBT member – has called it quits, announcing that he won't seek a 16th term.
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By Matt Hennie | Mar 5, 2018 | 4:56 PM
Gov. Nathan Deal deflected questions about a bill that would ban adoptions and foster care by LGBT people, declining on Monday to discuss the legislation and the controversy surrounding it.
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By Matt Hennie | Mar 1, 2018 | 5:01 PM
A coalition of opponents to a bill that would allow faith-based adoption and foster care agencies to refuse to serve LGBT parents and children lashed out at the legislation during a rally near the Georgia Capitol.
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By Matt Hennie | Feb 27, 2018 | 1:06 PM
'Walking Dead' actor Daniel Newman is speaking out against an LGBT adoption ban passed by the Georgia Senate, part of a growing chorus of critics from the film and television industries that generated $9.5 billion in economic impact in the state last year.
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By Project Q Atlanta | Feb 26, 2018 | 2:48 PM
Opponents of legislation allowing faith-based agencies to ban adoptions and foster care by LGBT people, which has passed the Georgia Senate, plan a rally as criticism of the bill continues to escalate.
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By Matt Hennie | Feb 23, 2018 | 1:11 PM
The Georgia Senate passed a bill on Friday that allows faith-based agencies receiving public funds to ban LGBT people from adopting children or becoming foster parents.
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By Matt Hennie | Feb 22, 2018 | 11:25 AM
Stacey Abrams – a former state lawmaker seeking the Democratic nomination for governor – blasted as 'bigoted' a bill moving through the Georgia Senate that would allow faith-based agencies receiving public funds to ban adoptions and foster care by LGBT people.
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By Matt Hennie | Feb 21, 2018 | 10:25 AM
Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle – the leading Republican candidate for governor – doubled-down on 'religious freedom' legislation and pledged to push through an anti-LGBT adoption and foster care ban that is winding its way through the state Senate.
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By Matt Hennie | Feb 20, 2018 | 9:07 AM
A bill that would allow faith-based agencies to receive public funds and ban adoptions and foster care by LGBT people and others was approved by a key committee in the Georgia Senate on Tuesday.
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By Matt Hennie | Feb 13, 2018 | 5:00 PM
Republican lawmakers vetted their own LGBT-inclusive hate crimes bill on Tuesday, a measure that has the backing of Georgia's top law enforcement officer, prosecutors and progressive activists.
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By Project Q Atlanta | Feb 12, 2018 | 6:10 PM
A hate crimes bill that enhances prison sentences for criminals who physically assault LGBT people and protects several other classes of people received a hearing in the Georgia House on Monday.
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By Matt Hennie | Feb 10, 2018 | 2:04 PM
A 'religious freedom' bill that would allow faith-based agencies to receive public funds and ban adoptions by LGBT people and others cleared a key subcommittee in the Georgia Senate despite staunch criticism and concerns about its legality.
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By Matt Hennie | Feb 1, 2018 | 3:11 PM
Sen. William Ligon introduced a bill that would allow adoption and foster care agencies to ban LGBT people, making good on his promise to push the legislation after it became embroiled in controversy last year.
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