Patrick Saunders

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Patrick Saunders is a reporter and editor with extensive experience in digital and print journalism covering community affairs, social justice, politics and public health for two of the largest LGBTQ publications in the South. He is a subject matter expert and trusted authority on LGBTQ issues in Georgia.

Health

Atlanta HIV health center gets $2.6 million to fight opioid abuse

Patrick Saunders - October 1, 2021 0

The federal government awarded $2.6 million last month to Positive Impact Health Centers to address the opioid epidemic in the metro Atlanta area. LGBTQ...

Community

PALS Atlanta volunteer returns to support pets, people with HIV

Patrick Saunders - September 30, 2021 0

When Roy Mead first started volunteering for Pets Are Loving Support 30 years ago, it was an HIV/AIDS war zone. “Everybody was dying,” he told...

Community

Gay Atlanta WABE reporter returns to airwaves after heart surgery

Patrick Saunders - September 29, 2021 0

WABE radio’s Jim Burress is back on the airwaves after a six-week break to recover from congenital heart surgery. Unfortunately, heart conditions are all in...

News

LGBTQ lawmaker launches historic run for Georgia lt. governor

Patrick Saunders - September 27, 2021 0

Georgia state Rep. Renitta Shannon launched her campaign for lieutenant governor on Monday, setting the stage for what would be a groundbreaking election in...

Community

This small-town Georgia official has been out and proud for 55 years

Patrick Saunders - September 25, 2021 0

Hamilton, Ga., Mayor Pro Tem Ransom Farley was around 11 or 12 years old when his grandmother told him he was “special.” He realized what...

Crime

Tracking Atlanta’s trans murder cold cases through the decades

Patrick Saunders - September 24, 2021 0

Metro Atlanta’s missing and murdered transgender and gender nonconforming victims are not forgotten. Thanks to a pair of forensic genealogists in Massachusetts, trans cold...

News

This small town in North Georgia loves its first LGBTQ mayor

Patrick Saunders - September 22, 2021 0

When Liz Ordiales became the first openly LGBTQ mayor of Hiawassee in 2017, there was some resistance in the city of 900 people in...

out on film

‘Firebird’ heats up the Cold War to open Out On Film

Patrick Saunders - September 22, 2021 0

A young private in the Cold War-era Soviet Air Force risks his freedom and his life after falling for a daring fighter pilot in...

News

Mayoral candidate Antonio Brown’s fraud case cleared for trial

Patrick Saunders - September 21, 2021 0

A federal judge advanced the federal fraud case against LGBTQ city council member and Atlanta mayoral hopeful Antonio Brown to the trial phase. The...

Community