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by Laura Douglas-Brown
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February 17, 2012 00:00 |
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Atlanta’s oldest LGBT church
First Metropolitan Community Church
Founded: 1972
Approximate membership: 250, attendance 300-400 weekly
Estimated LGBT membership: 80 percent
It began as a gathering of about 50 people on Jan. 16, 1972. It’s now Atlanta’s oldest LGBT congregation, celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.
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by Matt Schafer
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February 17, 2012 00:00 |
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Each community has its own taboos, practices and interests that people don’t always discuss openly, and for some it’s sharing that they are both gay and religious.
As the executive director for the MEGA Family Project, Kathy Kelly is one of the most well-known names amongst Georgia’s gays with kids set. She’s helped couples adopt children, conceive them, and talked people through the thorny issues of gay parenting in the Deep South — but one thing she doesn’t often share is her faith.
“I find that I’m somewhat closeted when I’m out in the community… it’s not something that I bring up or find the need to talk about it. Even though faith is a very important thing in my life I don’t talk about it,” Kelly said. “I think that faith in the gay community is like being bisexual — people don’t like to talk about it because it’s not politically correct.”
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by Ryan Watkins
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February 16, 2012 23:56 |
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The Georgia Safe Schools Coalition and Georgia Equality will host the 2012 Georgia Gay-Straight Alliance Summit at Georgia State University on Feb 25.
The summit, a day-long event, aims to connect students with the tools and support needed to create GSAs in their own schools. More than 100 students participated in the conference when it launched last year. This year, organizers expect more than 150 students, parents and educators.
Gay-straight alliances benefit all students, not just those that identify as LGBT, says Anneliese Singh of the Georgia Safe Schools Coalition.
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by Shannon Hames
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February 03, 2012 00:00 |
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LGBT rights activists are gearing up to counter an upcoming visit to Georgia by Exodus International, which brings its “Love Won Out” conference to Villa Rica on Feb. 18.
The Queer Justice League, the Southern Poverty Law Center, GetEqual and Truth Wins Out are coming together to educate the public at a community discussion at Lutheran Church of the Redeemer on Feb. 16 and also planning a protest at the “Love Won Out” conference at Midway Church in Villa Ricca on Feb. 18.
The organization at the center of their ire is Exodus International, a 35 year old “ministry committed to encouraging, educating and equipping the Body of Christ to address the issue of homosexuality with grace and truth” according to its website.
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by Laura Douglas-Brown and Dyana Bagby
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January 20, 2012 00:00 |
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Need motivation to improve your health? Meet four LGBT Georgians who faced challenges and triumphed.
 Thriving with HIV: Jim Shumake
‘This is the best I’ve ever felt’
Jim Shumake, 32, learned he was HIV positive in 2007. Although he knew, as a gay man, he was more at risk than most, he didn’t believe it could happen to him. “At first you don’t believe it, that it would ever happen to you,” he said. But Shumake, who is a client of AID Gwinnett/Ric Crawford Clinic, said when he came to grips with the news, he chose to complete a “full 180” on his life and he’s now “100 percent healthy.”
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