Georgia Equality | GLAAD https://glaad.org GLAAD rewrites the script for LGBTQ acceptance. Mon, 28 Apr 2025 21:26:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 https://media.glaad.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/20110814/cropped-glaad-cyan-icon-32x32.png Georgia Equality | GLAAD https://glaad.org 32 32 Georgia Governor Signs Anti-LGBTQ Law Restricting Transgender Students from Sports, Despite Zero Trans Athletes Participating in State https://glaad.org/georgia-governor-signs-anti-lgbtq-law-restricting-transgender-students-from-sports-despite-zero-trans-athletes-participating-in-state/ https://glaad.org/georgia-governor-signs-anti-lgbtq-law-restricting-transgender-students-from-sports-despite-zero-trans-athletes-participating-in-state/#respond Mon, 28 Apr 2025 21:26:04 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=936009 On April 28, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed The Riley Gaines Act, effectively banning the participation of transgender student-athletes from participating in sports and from using the correct restroom and locker room that aligns with their gender. The new law, which was championed by conservative state lawmakers as a top priority at the start of [...]

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]]> https://glaad.org/georgia-governor-signs-anti-lgbtq-law-restricting-transgender-students-from-sports-despite-zero-trans-athletes-participating-in-state/feed/ 0 GLAAD AND GEORGIA EQUALITY RESPOND TO GEORGIA’S NEW LAW RESTRICTING TRANSGENDER STUDENTS FROM SPORTS, DESPITE ZERO TRANS ATHLETES PARTICIPATING IN GEORGIA https://glaad.org/releases/glaad-and-georgia-equality-respond-to-georgias-new-law-restricting-transgender-students-from-sports/ Mon, 28 Apr 2025 19:44:05 +0000 https://glaad.org/?post_type=releases&p=935995 GLAAD: “All students, regardless of gender identity, should have access to play school sports in a safe environment where they can learn and thrive. With the passage of this discriminatory legislation, Georgia lawmakers have unfairly and baselessly made it more difficult for transgender students to experience the same lessons sports offers all youth, and they [...]

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]]> LGBTQ Advocates Rally, Resist ‘Tsunami of Anti-Trans Hate’ at ‘Pride To The Capitol’ https://glaad.org/lgbtq-advocates-rally-resist-tsunami-of-anti-trans-hate-at-pride-to-the-capitol/ https://glaad.org/lgbtq-advocates-rally-resist-tsunami-of-anti-trans-hate-at-pride-to-the-capitol/#respond Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:57:54 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=930137 On March 4, for the second time since the start of the 2025 state legislative session, over 200 hundred LGBTQ Georgians and their allies descended on the State Capitol in downtown Atlanta as at least seven anti-LGBTQ bills inched closer to becoming law. “Pride to the Capitol” included more than a dozen LGBTQ equality groups [...]

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]]> https://glaad.org/lgbtq-advocates-rally-resist-tsunami-of-anti-trans-hate-at-pride-to-the-capitol/feed/ 0 Making History, Being Heard: LGBTQ Southern Delegates are Taking Up Space at the DNC https://glaad.org/making-history-being-heard-lgbtq-southern-delegates-are-taking-up-space-at-the-dnc/ https://glaad.org/making-history-being-heard-lgbtq-southern-delegates-are-taking-up-space-at-the-dnc/#respond Tue, 20 Aug 2024 19:06:41 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=914035 For queer DNC delegates Blake Robinson, 21, and Antwon Womack, 36, the personal is political. Robinson, a delegate from the eighth Congressional District of Georgia and the Deputy State Coordinator for Fair Election Center’s Campus Vote Project, and Womack, Chair of the Alabama LGBTQ Caucus, are taking up space as queer delegates and immersing themselves [...]

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