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Category: LGBT

  • Happy Atlanta Pride Week!

    This weekend Atlanta will host one of the largest LBGT Pride events in the country.  More than a half million people will come to town to enjoy the festival and Parade. The weather has been ordered, and it looks PERFECT! Atlanta Pride is 43 years young, and one of the very first cities to march…

  • DPG Chair Candidate Forum

    This just in…. DPG Chair Candidate Forum – Saturday, August 3 The Democratic Women’s Council, the LGBT Caucus of the Democratic Party of Georgia, the Young Democrats of Georgia, and the 5th Congressional District Caucus invite all State Committee members, Executive Committee members, area elected officials, and interested Democrats to a moderated forum for officially qualified candidates…

  • Happy Pride Month!

    With all the recent politics of politics “news” here in Georgia, I haven’t had time to post all the activities going on for June Pride. My bad, sorry. So here goes… If you don’t know why we celebrate Pride in June, please go to Stonewall 101 TONIGHT! Or watch this. The White House has a Proclamation. The Secretary…

  • Epic FB Response to a Homophobic Pastor

    We’ve all been there, someone posts something on Facebook, various people either ignore it or chime in. But then there is that one person, that is so infuriately righteously ignorant that you can’t help yourself but respond. While your response is thoughtful and respectful and you think you might be engaging a rational thinking adult,…

  • Dear Sue Everhart,

    Honey, I got a little bad news for you. Just between us girlfriends, I know, I know you were thinking why am I even answering questions about Adam and Steve getting married. Didn’t I work my manicure to the bone outlawing that crap in 2004. I’ll just give a quickie quote to that GOPlovingoldBrumbynewspapertheMDJlocatedsmackinthemiddleofGOPlandia and…

  • Which Atlanta City Councilmen Voted Against Marriage Equality and Why?

    What with everyone’s posting about the City Council Vote supporting marriage equality and the Mayor’s signing of the resolution, I was interested in who voted NO on the resolution. Councilmen C.T. Martin and Howard Shook voted “No” against the resolution according to Creative Loafing. Here’s some quotes from our two Atlanta City Councilmen. from CT Martin – “I don’t…