In August 2025, Atlanta-based actor Nicholas Molencupp decided he wanted to make a feature film. Now he’s putting the finishing touches on his debut feature as a writer, director and star, a project called “In Between.” It’s the object of many filmmakers’ fantasies. In less than a year, Molencupp went from table reads to the […]
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Reflecting on Obama 50 years after Stonewall
By Guest Columnist ERIC PAULK, deputy director of Georgia Equality
During the eight years the Obamas occupied the White House, two moments stand out vividly in my mind. July 19, 2013: President Obama made the following comments during an impromptu press briefing in the days following the Trayvon Martin verdict – “When Trayvon Martin was first shot, I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is, Trayvon Martin could have been me, 35 years ago.”
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Breaking Barriers, a conversation with trailblazing athletes
By King Williams Atlanta’s Center for Civil and Human Rights convened a special panel on Jan. 23 to discuss the role of activism in sports and among athletes, particularly those affecting women and the LGBTQ community. The title of the panel was: “Breaking Barriers: Sports for Change.” It was part of a rotating exhibition that […]
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Georgia Tech’s student association awards $35,000 to Tech’s LGBTQIA Resource Center
Seven months after an LGBT student activist at Georgia Tech was shot and killed by campus police, the Student Alumni Association on Thursday presented a $35,000 gift to Tech’s LGBTQIA Resource Center for new office space and programmatic support, according to a statement from Tech.
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Mayoral candidates pledge vigilance against any anti-gay legislative moves
Eight folks who want to be the next mayor of Atlanta laid out their platforms Friday at a forum held by the Atlanta Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, and what they’d do as leader of a city that’s politically quite different from the state of which it is the capital.
All said they would be quick to help stop any efforts to pass something like North Carolina’s 2016 “bathroom bill” – a requirement from a conservative state Legislature that transgender people use public restrooms that that match the gender on their birth certificates. It came just after progressive Charlotte had passed an ordinance that let transgender people use public facilities that match their gender identity.
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Most Georgians support civil rights protections for LGBT community
A large majority of Georgians (74 percent) support passing a state law to protect gay and transgender people in the areas of employment, housing and public accommodations, according to a survey conducted by the Just Win Foundation.
But the same survey shows that an equal percentage of Georgians think it’s already illegal under state law to fire, refuse to hire, deny housing or public accommodations access to a person who is gay or transgender.
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Time to stop hateful rhetoric
By Guest Columnist SHELLEY ROSE, interim regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, Southeast Region
Like millions of Americans and people throughout the world, we are trying to come to grips with the horror and tragedy of the mass murder in Orlando. This was not just an act of terror. Nor was it simply the result of religious extremism or easy access to guns – it was fueled by hate against LGBT people.
There may be many factors that will continue surfacing in the coming weeks and months, but a central factor in this mass murder cannot be overlooked: Hateful rhetoric leads to hateful actions.
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Photo Pick: Rally at Civil by Kelly Jordan
Twenty-five Atlanta-based LGBT and allied organizations held a vigil at the Center for Civil and Human Rights in memory of those who were killed in Orlando and a call to action to prevent this terrible violence from happening again in the future. Kelly Jordan was there and captured these images:
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Same-sex wedding planning tricky now in Georgia
Wedding planning is never easy, and picking a date and location is particularly tricky right now for same-sex couples in Georgia, one of 14 states where gay marriage remains illegal. The closest possibility is Florida or one of the Carolinas. Alabama may be the next state to legalize. On this cusp of historic change are stakeholders like Kristen Ott Palladino, who with her wife Maria Palladino publishes Equally Wed magazine from Atlanta, and local couples like Dan Treadaway and Eric Still, who married in 2014 for romantic and legal reasons, not wanting to stay unwed any longer.
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Gay marriage in Georgia? Not if, but when, forum participants say
Ten years ago, banning same-sex marriage was so in vogue that 3 of every 4 Georgia voters approved amending the state constitution so only men and women could marry each other. Last weekend, several prominent gays and lesbians spoke of how lives and society will transform when—not if—the marriage ban is overturned.
They spoke the same week that Lambda Legal, a gay rights group, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Atlanta seeking to overturn the state of Georgia’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriages. The promise of “marriage equality” drew more than 100 people to the “Beloved Community Dialogue” Saturday night at The Friends School of Atlanta, a moment that showed how far the issue has moved away from moral debate to a question of timing and expectations.
