Kasim Reed

Anti-LGBTQ hate crimes in Georgia have increased 300 percent in recent years.

But you wouldn’t know it to read the press release from his lawyers – the same group defending the antigay marriage baker at the Supreme Court.

The announcement was made on the one-year anniversary of the Pulse shooting.

Taxpayer-funded travel to North Carolina has been banned over the state’s new law preventing specific anti-discrimination rules for gay and transgender people.

Former Atlanta fire chief Kelvin Cochran filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Atlanta and Mayor Kasim Reed, alleging his constitutional rights were violated when he was fired from his job after writing a book that included passages comparing homosexuality to bestiality and pedophilia.

Former Atlanta fire chief Kelvin Cochran has some new friends in the form of six Republican U.S. congressmen from Georgia. The group fired off a letter to Mayor Kasim Reed on Wednesday asking for Cochran to be reinstated.

The former chief of Atlanta’s fire department has filed a federal complaint alleging that the city discriminated against him when he was fired for publishing a book that contained offensive comments on homosexuality.

Religious groups are rallying to support former Atlanta fire chief Kelvin Cochran, but Mayor Kasim Reed reiterated that Cochran’s termination was based on his judgment and not anti-gay statements in a self-published book.

Mayor Kasim Reed made the announcement at a press conference at City Hall where he reiterated the city’s nondiscrimination policy that prohibits bias based upon sexual orientation and gender identity.

ATLANTA — A Georgia LGBT advocacy group is calling on Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed to terminate the city’s fire chief, saying the viewpoints expressed in a self-published book make him unfit to lead a diverse workforce.