We want you! 
You may be familiar with hearing about the roughly 14,000 kids in Georgia foster care, and you’ve likely heard about the attempts in the legislature to make it harder for our LGBT community to adopt. But you’re less likely to know that people from all walks of life are already adoptive or foster parents in Georgia. Continue reading
ELECTION UPDATE
Early Voting has begun across the state for the upcoming 
May 22nd primary election. CLICK HERE to find your early voting location and take your pride to the polls!! #Pride2Polls
Whether you are LGBTQ or an ally, the stakes in Georgia are too high to sit this one out! Join the growing number of voices voting for equality in our state!
Important Dates for this election:
Early voting: April 30 – May 18, 2018,
Mandatory Saturday voting: May 12, 2018.
Absentee voting: May 10 – 18.
For more information on early and early/absentee voting visit the Secretary of State’s My Voter Page.
After you’ve voted, post a selfie on your social media accounts using #Pride2Polls so everyone knows you’ve voted, and they should too!
Join The Atlanta Opera for the world premiere of Out of Darkness: Two Remain. Composer Jake Heggie‘s and librettist Gene Scheer‘s moving two-act opera centers on Holocaust survivors visited by ghosts of their past. In Act I, Krystyna shares her gripping story of survival with a journalist, and is helped by the ghosts of Auschwitz inspired by her written lyrics. In Act II, Gad Beck is visited by his first true love, the poet Manfred Lewin, who perished in Auschwitz. As Manfred implores Gad to remember and celebrate their love, the painful truth of their stories and fates emerges. Based in part on the true stories of two Holocaust survivors: the Polish dissident Krystyna Zywulska (1914-1993) and the gay German Jew, Gad Beck (1923-2012).
Georgia Equality members can get $10 off the regular ticket price of $50 by using promo code EQUAL. Be sure to enter the promo code BEFORE selecting dates and seats. Valid for all performances of Out of Darkness: Two Remain.
We created the Youth HIV Policy Advisor Program (YHPA) program because “all laws and policies related to HIV should be informed by the experiences of people living with HIV.” To that end, we felt it was critical to train young people living with HIV in Metro Atlanta on policy and advocacy, providing them tools and resources to go forward and educate state, city, and county-level policymakers on HIV-related policy issues. Continue reading
Another legislative session is over in Georgia 
and because of supporters like you we were able to stop all attempts at passing discriminatory legislation for the 5th year in a row!
So, to you we say thank you! While we celebrate our success though, we’re not resting at Georgia Equality. We know that bills like this will be back next year and we’re already ramping-up our efforts to educate Georgians that we need comprehensive non-discrimination measures rather than limited legislation that creates a license to discriminate.
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