Georgia

ATLANTA -- President Barack Obama on Sunday delivered an LGBT-inclusive commencement address at Morehouse College, a private, all-male, liberal arts, historically black college located in Atlanta. [ Read more → ]

The head of the Georgia Republican Party says that legalizing same-sex marriage will lead to fraud by straight people who will claim they are gay so they can marry their straight friends and "get all the benefits" of marriage. [caption id="attachment_84743" align="alignright" width="350"] Sue Everhart... [ Read more → ]

An Atlanta man is suing the Georgia Department of Driver Services, contending that his rights were violated when the state rejected his application for vanity plates making reference to his sexual orientation. [ Read more → ]

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed has announced his support for marriage equality by signing a resolution sponsored by councilman Alex Wan and passed by the City Council on Dec. 3. [ Read more → ]

The Atlanta city council on Monday approved a resolution supporting marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples, despite Mayor Kasim Reed's previously stated opposition to same-sex marriage. [ Read more → ]

Simone Bell, the first African-American out lesbian to serve in a U.S. State House, handily won her Democratic primary for Georgia State House District 58 last night. [ Read more → ]

ROME, Ga. -- A tenured librarian at Shorter University is the latest among nearly 60 staff members to leave the Christian liberal arts college over the school’s ban on gay employees. [ Read more → ]

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — A federal judge on Friday declined to reinstate a high school student council president who claimed he was removed from position after introducing an LGBT-friendly prom resolution, citing evidence the removal may have been for other offenses. [ Read more → ]

ALPHARETTA, Ga. -- A high school honors student has been fired from his position as student body president for supporting a student council in January that supported LGBT students, according to his attorney James Radford. [ Read more → ]

The field of Republican presidential candidates didn’t become any more clear Tuesday night after results were declared for the largest number of contests on a single day during the GOP primary season. [ Read more → ]

ATLANTA -- The Georgia House Judiciary subcommittee on Tuesday voted 3-2 to table a bill that would have provided workplace protections to all state employees, including LGBT workers, not long after hearing testimony comparing gays to pedophiles and necrophiliacs. [ Read more → ]

ATLANTA — Police have arrested one of three suspects in the videotaped beating of a 20-year-old gay man who was attacked outside a convenience store in a southwest Atlanta neighborhood on Feb. 4. [ Read more → ]

ATLANTA -- Atlanta Police Chief George Turner on Thursday said police have identified suspects in a videotaped attack on a gay man leaving after he left a convenience store in a southwest Atlanta neighborhood. [ Read more → ]

ATLANTA — It might pale in comparison to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' decision against Proposition 8, but the Atlanta-based Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals also ruled on another gay rights case this week. [ Read more → ]

ATLANTA -- The U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a decision by a U.S. district judge who ruled Augusta State University may expel a graduate student who refused to comply with graduate degree program requirements citing her Christian beliefs that homosexuality is immoral. [ Read more → ]

LGBT advocates are hailing a federal appellate court ruling as a significant win for transgender rights and a means to provide recourse to others who face discrimination in the workplace on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. [ Read more → ]

Two members of a three judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday signaled that U.S. Supreme Court precedents will require them to uphold a district court ruling that a former Georgia state legislative aide who was fired during her gender transition, was the victim of discrimination. [ Read more → ]

ATLANTA -- A Georgia graduate student who has sued Augusta State University in a battle over graduate program requirements and her stated anti-gay "Christian beliefs," has petitioned the U. S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to prevent the university from expelling her. [ Read more → ]

ROME, Ga. -- Shorter University, a Christian liberal arts college in Rome, Ga., has announced a policy which will require its more than 200 employees to sign a “Personal Lifestyle Statement” rejecting homosexuality. [ Read more → ]

Six Atlanta police officers have been fired following an investigation into the botched raid of an Atlanta gay bar in 2009. [ Read more → ]