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by Jessica Douglas

Pocket of Faith: March 2024

Pocket of Faith is a monthly newsletter directly geared towards the intersection of LGBTQ+ human rights and faith. We are proud to showcase this important subject, revealing that faith, religion, and LGBTQ+ rights co-exist in harmony and not in opposition.

Written by Jai Davis (they/them), faith organizer for Georgia Equality

Photo of Hydeia Broadbent (1984-2024).

Hydeia Broadbent began her advocacy work on HIV/AIDS at the age of five years old until her death at the age of 39 years of age on 2/20/24. Hydeia’s work and life legacy still lives on and we honor her and all that she has done to bring awareness to HIV/AIDS.

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by Wes Sanders

Apply Now: Statewide Organizing Manager

Statewide Organizing Manager 

The Statewide Organizing Manager will assist with current Georgia Equality programs and issues, including civic engagement and voter registration, community engagement events (LGBTQ+ Prides), transgender rights, safe and supportive schools, passing pro-equality legislation and electing supportive candidates to office. Georgia Equality’s expanded mission includes an intersectional approach to issues, as well as working with a wide range of institutions such as schools, businesses, religious congregations, local governments, health clinics, and LGBTQ+ centers. This position is based in Atlanta, and will be housed in Georgia Equality’s offices when we return to in-person work.

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by Jessica Douglas

Pocket of Faith: February 2024

Pocket of Faith is a monthly newsletter directly geared towards the intersection of LGBTQ+ human rights and faith. We are proud to showcase this important subject, revealing that faith, religion, and LGBTQ+ rights co-exist in harmony and not in opposition.

Written by Jai Davis (they/them), faith organizer for Georgia Equality Continue reading →

by Jessica Douglas

A small, but vocal, minority of faith leaders are pushing discrimination against LGBTQ+ Georgians. The vast majority of us don’t agree.

To our fellow Georgians,

Today, a handful of politicians will host faith leaders who are outliers in our community at the Capitol, giving a platform to anti-transgender activists, dangerous rhetoric, and misinformation. They will exploit a small, but vocal, minority within the faith community and misconstrue our religious texts and faith traditions in attempts to lay the groundwork for a hostile legislative session.

As faith leaders from all across the state, we are appalled that this group is promoting such a hateful and divisive agenda; one that directly contradicts the central tenets of our religions, as well as the majority views of both Georgians and people of faith. Many of us see not condemnation, but celebration of LGBTQ+ people in our sacred texts, and reject these homophobic and transphobic readings of those texts.  Continue reading →

by Jessica Douglas

TEXAS AG DEMANDS PRIVATE MEDICAL RECORDS FROM LOCAL GEORGIA CLINIC ALREADY TARGETED BY ARSON

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DECATUR, GA (January 29, 2024) – QueerMed, a local gender-affirming care clinic in downtown Decatur, received a recent request from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to release patient records for transgender youth. Paxton specifically sought private information about Texas residents who received telehealth care from the Georgia clinic before Texas instituted a ban on medical care for trans youth.

“The actions of the Texas Attorney General puts politics between pediatricians and parents in an egregious act of government interference which violates the most fundamental rights of parents and children,” said Jeff Graham, executive director of Georgia Equality. Continue reading →