By Patrick Saunders | Oct 15, 2018 | 11:36 AM
Stacey Abrams became the first major party gubernatorial candidate to speak at Atlanta Pride and to march in the Pride parade. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and numerous elected officials and candidates who will be on the ballot in November took part in the parade.
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By Patrick Saunders | Oct 12, 2018 | 12:13 PM
Stacey Abrams has quietly stocked her gubernatorial campaign team with more LGBTQ members than any other major party campaign in Georgia in memory.
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By Patrick Saunders | Oct 11, 2018 | 1:58 PM
Republican Brian Kemp is out with an attack ad against his Democratic rival Stacey Abrams in the unlikeliest of places — Grindr — despite Kemp’s support of anti-LGBTQ bills.
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By Patrick Saunders | Oct 10, 2018 | 1:33 PM
The leader of the Human Rights Campaign said Brian Kemp and Mike Pence “deserve” each other while he was in Atlanta for a get-out-the-vote event for Stacey Abrams.
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By Patrick Saunders | Oct 5, 2018 | 3:14 PM
A candidate for a state House district in West Cobb says transgender people demand 'special rights' and shouldn't receive them whether they identify 'as a man or a moose.'
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By Patrick Saunders | Oct 1, 2018 | 2:33 PM
Georgia Stonewall Democrats endorsed six more candidates, bringing its total to 56 candidates picked as the state enters the homestretch of a crucial November election.
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By Patrick Saunders | Sep 27, 2018 | 4:28 PM
Kennesaw State University pulled its logo from two LGBTQ pamphlets and then removed the documents from a website and campuses in Kennesaw and Marietta.
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By Patrick Saunders | Sep 26, 2018 | 3:06 PM
Over 30 female Democrats in Georgia – including five LGBT women – called on Brian Kemp to drop support of Brett Kavanaugh, calling the U.S. Supreme Court nominee a 'threat' to women.
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By Patrick Saunders | Sep 25, 2018 | 3:46 PM
The state’s strict voter ID laws could keep tens of thousands of transgender Georgia voters from taking part in elections on Nov. 6.
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By Patrick Saunders | Sep 24, 2018 | 3:41 PM
Vice President Mike Pence is bringing his long anti-LGBTQ record to Atlanta on the eve of Atlanta Pride in what Georgia Democrats are calling an act of 'trolling Georgia’s LGBTQ community.'
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By Patrick Saunders | Sep 20, 2018 | 2:28 PM
State Sen. Josh Mckoon has been tapped to lead the Georgia chapter of a conservative Christian organization that opposes marriage equality and supports anti-LGBTQ “religious freedom” legislation.
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By Patrick Saunders | Sep 18, 2018 | 3:40 PM
Fred Swann says his push to get more LGBTQ people into the agricultural field will help alleviate Atlanta’s LGBTQ homeless youth problem.
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By Patrick Saunders | Sep 14, 2018 | 1:31 PM
Richard Keatley wants to be 'the voice for the working people' of Georgia, and considers LGBTQ people a vital part of the state’s economic engine. He faces incumbent Republican Mark Butler for labor commissioner.
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By Patrick Saunders | Sep 12, 2018 | 4:13 PM
Sam Olens once fought LGBTQ equality as Georgia attorney general. Now he says it's time for a civil rights law protecting lesbian, gay and bisexual Georgians, one of the first Republicans to do so.
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By Patrick Saunders | Sep 5, 2018 | 4:21 PM
Georgia Equality endorsed 21 more candidates, bringing its total to 52 candidates — including nine LGBTQ ones — selected for what could be a history-making November election.
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By Patrick Saunders | Aug 29, 2018 | 12:53 PM
Brian Kemp said he’ll veto “religious freedom” legislation that goes beyond a version that's already federal law, but LGBTQ activists said the bill he supports is still discriminatory.
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By Patrick Saunders | Aug 28, 2018 | 10:33 AM
Stacey Abrams vowed to put anti-LGBTQ 'religious freedom' bills 'in the grave a final time' as the nominee for governor joined other statewide candidates at the Georgia Democratic Convention.
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By Patrick Saunders | Aug 22, 2018 | 10:37 AM
Former state Rep. Sally Harrell reentered politics this year driven in part by the urge to protect her teenage daughter, who recently came out as LGBTQ.
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By Project Q Atlanta | Aug 10, 2018 | 3:28 PM
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions compared opponents of 'religious freedom' legislation to 'moral enforcer' Harvey Weinstein at an anti-LGBTQ legal group’s summit in Georgia.
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By Patrick Saunders | Aug 8, 2018 | 2:42 PM
Georgia Attorney General candidate Charlie Bailey traces his opposition to anti-LGBTQ 'religious freedom' bills back to the African-American civil rights movement of the 1950s and ‘60s.
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