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by Ryan Watkins
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March 19, 2013 11:07 |
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The annual Rainbow Days at Six Flags Over Georgia announced today the dates for its 2013 event. The LGBT day at the theme park will take place Aug. 10, from 10 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Organizers hope to attract more than 3,000 to Six Flags for the event's fourth year.
Admission to the park will be available in price packages from $23 to $50. Some ticket plans will include everything from parking to an evening buffet and tickets to live stage entertainment. A portion of ticket sales will go to the Health Initiative, organizers also said.
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by Laura Douglas-Brown
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March 14, 2013 10:53 |
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This year's HRC Atlanta Dinner will honor the leader of Emory University's Office of LGBT Life and an organization that throws popular parties to fund housing for people with HIV.
The 2013 dinner, which raises funds for the Human Rights Campaign's national work on LGBT rights, is set for May 4 at the Hyatt Regency Downtown Atlanta. Last year's dinner raised $500,000 and drew about 1,000 attendees, according to organizers.
The annual gala always includes the presentation of two local awards, the Dan Bradley Humanitarian Award and the Leon Allen & Winston Johnson Community Service Award.
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by Ryan Watkins
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March 01, 2013 00:00 |
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For Angel Poventud, what began as a home renovation project in October 2011 has become a vision for a full-blown community revitalization effort in southwest Atlanta.
“I really believed that I would be living in the house within six, at most nine, months,” Poventud says after providing a tour of his ongoing project.
There are no walls or fixtures. The floor is uncovered and there are pieces of the house’s exterior siding stacked throughout the house. There’s still a lot of work to be done.
But a new roof, a new interior frame, new windows and doors, new front porch, new primary support beam, new electrical wiring, new central heat and air ducts, and many other completed jobs show real progress on a house that once could have been condemned.
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by Dyana Bagby
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March 01, 2013 00:00 |
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Located near the corner of Boulevard and Memorial Drive, a small blue building with a beveled glass front window and “The Livery” painted over the front door is a splash of gentrification in a stretch of road most have given up on.
Right at the cusp of Cabbagetown, a stones throw from Oakland Cemetery and just a hop, skip and jump from the local Mexican food favorite Mi Barrio, The Livery — now the home of Libby Quattrocchi — was once a broken, vacant building covered in ugly graffiti.
The front door wouldn’t open. The back yard was waist-high in weeds that hid many strange objects that Quattrochi, who is gay, discovered when excavating.
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by Jeff Hammerberg
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March 01, 2013 00:00 |
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There are several mistakes that first-time home buyers make that are easily avoided. The idea is to not be impulsive or succumb to wishful thinking. Even though a home may seem like a dream house it could, in reality, be a nightmare if you do not carefully consider everything such a major purchase entails.
Follow these tips to steer clear of some of the biggest pitfalls:
Check out the neighborhood thoroughly. Remember that there are real estate agents in the business of selling you a home however they can, and if that means telling you that you are about to live in a gay-friendly neighborhood that actually is not that friendly at all, then they may — intentionally or not — do their job and “get you into a home.” Working with an LGBT real estate agent, or an agent with experience working with LGBT clients, can help prevent this.
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