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by Laura Douglas-Brown
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May 17, 2013 10:04 |
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Looks like LGBT Georgians can expect another turn as campaign cannon fodder, as Karen Handel has entered the race for U.S. Senate.
The seat, left open when Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) decided not to seek re-election, has already drawn a crowd of GOP big wigs, including U.S. Reps. Paul Broun, Phil Gingrey and Jack Kingston.
None of those congressmen could remotely be described as friends of the LGBT community, but Handel's entrance makes the race even more likely to go anti-gay.
Why? Because Handel was our friend before she wasn't.
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by Laura Douglas-Brown
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April 29, 2013 18:40 |
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He's done it again. For the second time in as many years, Ga. Gov. Nathan Deal has issued a proclamation requested by organizers of the International Day Against Homophobia — but only after sanitizing it into "Mistreatment Awareness Day" and removing any reference to LGBT rights.
"For the second year in a row, Governor Nathan Deal's office has issued a proclamation per … request to recognize the annual Atlanta and Georgia-wide events. Herein lies the problem — the Governor's office refuses to officially address a day against homophobia, instead issuing the vague recognition of 'Mistreatment Awareness Day,' as they did last year," organizers of Georgia's events complained in a Change.org petition today.
The renamed event is sadly ironic, Georgia organizer Betty Couvertier observed last year.
"They couldn't even use the word homophobia," Couvertier, who asked for the proclamation, said then. ""This [proclamation] is a documentation of homophobia."
International Day Against Homophobia (Georgia's committee adds transphobia to the title) is May 17.
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by Dyana Bagby
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April 29, 2013 15:05 |
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State Rep. Karla Drenner, Georgia's first openly gay state legislator, needs your vote now — not to return to the Gold Dome, she already did that — but to win a chance to speak at the Next Generation of Government Training Summit.
Drenner (D-Avondale Estates) is one of 15 finalists, all seeking a chance to win to speak to more than 650 young people at the esteemed conference held July 25-26 in Washington, D.C.
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by Ryan Watkins
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April 09, 2013 14:03 |
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While many LGBT rights activists were celebrating the recent U.S. Supreme Court hearings on California's Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act, transman Bryan Ellicott came away with a very different experience from the rally and march outside of the court.
Ellicott, in an op-ed piece posted yesterday at The New Civil Rights Movement, tells the story of harassment by Human Rights Campaign members and other attendees of the rally and accuses the HRC of purposefully discouraging trans participation during the rally.
From The New Civil Rights Movement:
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by Dyana Bagby
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April 08, 2013 17:34 |
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During a recent town hall meeting in Winder, U.S. Rep. Paul Broun, a Republican from Athens, wanted people to be clear he is secure with his gender identity.
"I don't want to pay for a sex change operation. I'm not interested. I like being a boy," he said in his criticism of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
Broun threw his hat into the ring for Sen. Saxby Chambliss' seat after Chambliss said he was not seeking another term because he's tired of all the gridlock in Washington, D.C. Chambliss also made headlines when he vocalized his opposition to same sex marriage with the pithy statement, "I'm not gay, so I'm not going to marry one."
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