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Writing With Intent, Twister Sister Karaoke and more this week
Writing With Intent, Twister Sister Karaoke and more this week
Employment bill tops LGBT agenda in Ga. legislature
Local LGBT-inclusive nonprofits compete for technology makeover grants
>> Washington National Cathedral: Great place for a gay wedding - The Washington Post |
>> Cameroon court frees 2 men jailed for 'looking gay,' ordering Bailey's Irish Cream - Fox News |
>> Gay Scout's request for Eagle rank rejected - CNN |
>> Hagel's 1998 gay slur revisited - CBS News |
Georgia Equality, the state's largest LGBT advocacy organization, announced today its partnership with Georgians for a Healthy Future to conduct a series of health-oriented outreach events. The goal...
Rev. Louie Giglio, pastor of Atlanta's Passion City Church, will no longer deliver the benediction at President Barack Obama's inauguration after news came out Wednesday the conservative pastor had...
Kecia Cunningham, who made history in 1999 when she became the first openly gay African American elected to public office in Georgia and the Southeast, was named mayor pro tem of Decatur this week....
Georgia Equality, the state's largest LGBT advocacy organization, will host a free advocacy / lobby training event at the Phillip Rush Center on Sat., Jan. 12. The event is aimed at teaching participants...
Five gay couples lined up and asked for marriage licenses in Decatur, Ga., Jan. 7, and all were denied, as expected, because Georgia prohibits same-sex marriages. The couples were participating in...
This spectacular video of Cindy Jacobs praising God's ability to spontaneously multiply things when she is in need — like spaghetti at a crowded dinner table — reminds us that God is just as good...
The National Organization for Marriage had a shitty year last year. Marriage equality ballot measures passing in Maine, Maryland, and Washington and a defeated Minnesota constitutional amendment capped...
Late Wednesday, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed's office issued a lengthy rebuttal to a Politifact.com ruling that he had performed a "full flop" on gay marriage. Reed's office organized a social media campaign...
LGBT blog Unicorn Booty has an amazing video on its site showing a male transition to female in roughly 1,000 photos taken over three years. From the YouTube site by the person who posted the video...
Hugo Schwyzer wrote an interesting piece on "Indexing Your Sex Life: Why and How We Keep Fuck Lists." He called on his social media connections to give stories about their lists. Some 78 women and 31...
A man working on an extensive embroidery project detailing the faces of some of Atlanta's drag queens is just one of several gay and gay-popular artists receiving funding from a grassroots group that...
In June 2011, I wrote a random blog about gay content on Netflix that accidentally became one of the most read pieces in our website's history, proving at last that I am a wizard. A sometimes bored...
Think of it as “Atlanta Idol” or our city’s local version of “The Voice” — but set in a gay bar and with the kind of attitude and attention to detail that only the creators of the queer...
Over the past decade, the Bayard Rustin/Audre Lorde Breakfast has become the hallmark event of MLK Weekend in Atlanta as LGBT activists gather together for food and conversation. Craig Washington...
Playwright Topher Payne is known for his prolific writing and his quick wit, but in “Swell Party,” opening next week at Georgia Ensemble Theater, he has penned a personal first – a mystery. The...
Each week we meet a new pet available for adoption at PAWS Atlanta. All adoptable pets are spayed or neutered, microchipped, on flea/tick and heartworm preventative and current on all age-appropriate...
Atlanta-based business technology solutions company Milner opened up voting today for the “Technology Jumpstart Your Nonprofit” contest, which will award two Georgia nonprofits a complete technology...
Chicago Pride pics, work-out Instagrams and a meme that says “no matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch” led to an odd silence on Jason Davis’ Facebook last summer....
Maggie Lopez and Patt Cianciullo have been partners for six years and are married in Cianciullo’s home state of Connecticut. Now living in Atlanta, they have spent the last two years coping with cancer...
After more than four decades where Rev. Paul Turner’s hand was never far from a cigarette, he finally got mad enough to quit for good. New Year’s Eve marked nine weeks since his last cigarette....
The controversy over yesterday's Politifact.com ruling that Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed has performed a "full flop" on gay marriage amounts to little more than a tempest in a teapot. But worse, it badly...
I’m not one to make New Year’s resolutions. I believe after months of rushing to countless parties, along with taking in the countless calories, it is natural to want to spend the next few months...
Well, it turns out the Mayans were just as reliable about predicting the end of our civilization as they were at predicting their own. I was charitable enough to give them until the end of the year,...
From President Obama coming out in support of marriage equality to celebrities like Anderson Cooper just plain coming out, 2012 provided plenty of notable quotables. Here is a look back at some of...
It has been a somber week for the country. The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut left us all feeling overwhelmed by grief and frustration and anger. In the coming weeks,...
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