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by Ryan Watkins
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January 31, 2013 14:25 |
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Christopher Mitchell and Robert Keller met more than a decade ago when the couple shared a brief romance. But things were not meant to be. At least, not back then.
“We parted ways back in 2001,” Mitchell says. “We were not old enough for that kind of commitment. We did not see each other for a little over a decade.”
And what a difference a decade can make. Almost by happenstance, the two met again for a lunch date and fell head-over-heels in love a little over two years ago, Mitchell says.
The couple decided to marry and drove to Washington, D.C., where same-sex marriages can be legally performed. They tied the knot in a small, private ceremony on Dec. 28, 2012.
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by Laura Douglas-Brown
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January 18, 2013 00:00 |
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 From the nine organizations that responded to the GA Voice LGBT organization survey, several key financial themes emerge:
• Individual donations make up a smaller percentage of budgets than you might think in a community as large as ours, coming in far below 50 percent for every organization except Savannah Pride (which has a small budget of only $50,000) and the StandUp Foundation (which benefited from a major anonymous donor in 2012).
• Federal and state grants support a large portion of some health agencies’ HIV work, but no local LGBT groups receive government funding.
• Corporate sponsorships are not common, either. Even Atlanta Pride, which gets chided from some activists for being “too corporate,” gets less than half of its funding from corporate sponsorships — and a miniscule 4.7 percent from individual donations.
Survey participants included Atlanta Pride, Georgia Equality, The Health Initiative, Lost-N-Found Youth, Savannah Pride, the StandUP Foundation, AID Atlanta, Positive Impact and Someone Cares Atlanta.
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by Laura Douglas-Brown
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January 18, 2013 00:00 |
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As Creating Change, the national LGBT equality conference, comes to Atlanta, GA Voice surveyed 15 local organizations to provide a snapshot of what it will take to “create change” for LGBT people here in our state.
The answers? Education, outreach, more volunteers, and, yes, more money.
The nine organizations that responded to the survey include the Southeast’s largest Pride festival, the Southeast’s largest AIDS service provider and our state’s largest LGBT political group.
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by Laura Douglas-Brown
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January 18, 2013 00:00 |
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Come out to your friends and family
Telling the truth about who you are is the single most important way to be an activist. New supporters of LGBT equality often say what convinced them was finding out someone they know and love is gay or transgender.
It’s easy to rail against “the gays,” but it’s much harder to hate your child, neighbor, best friend, cousin or teammate.
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by Dyana Bagby
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January 18, 2013 00:00 |
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Last year, Pulitzer-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas visited the University of Georgia in Athens to discuss immigration reform with students.
His talk came on the heels of Georgia legislature’s passage of a controversial immigration law that included alleged racial profiling and the “show me your papers” provision.
At UGA, Vargas said he had a conversation with a student that has stuck with him as one of the most memorable he’s ever had.
“This young man raised his hand and identified himself as a young Republican. We had a really great exchange and toward the end I asked him where he was from. He said, ‘What do you mean? I’m American.’ I asked him again, though, where he was from. He goes, ‘I’m white.’ But white is not a place. I asked him again where he was from and he didn’t know,” Vargas said.
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