July 11, 2023 (DeKalb County, GA) – Today, by unanimous vote, the DeKalb County Board of Commissioners passed a nondiscrimination ordinance providing critical public accommodation protections to LGBTQ folks and other marginalized groups who live, work, and visit DeKalb County as well as explicit employment protections to LGBTQ county employees. Continue reading
June 30, 2023 (Atlanta, GA) – In response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s breaking decision that 303 Creative, Inc. can constitutionally refuse business to customers on the basis of their sexual orientation, experts released the following statements:
Jeff Graham (he/him), Executive Director of Georgia Equality, said:
“Today, the U.S. Supreme Court gave way to targeted efforts to roll back long-standing protections for LGBTQ+ people. Our country decided long ago that a business opening its doors to the public must do so to everybody on the same terms. Yet this radical and reckless ruling contradicts decades of settled law and opens the door for discrimination against people of all different backgrounds– LGBTQ+ people, people of color, women, and people of different faiths. We commend Justice Sotomayor’s dissent in this case, likely the most affirming statement on the history and dignity of LGBTQ+ people to ever appear in a Supreme Court opinion.
We, the undersigned organizations, as part of the LGBTQ+ community in Georgia, speak out to express our disappointment and indignation at the killing of the non-binary, Afro-Indigenous environmental activist Manuel “Tortuguita” Terán and subsequent actions by law enforcement.
Georgia’s 15th municipality to pass such an ordinance.
TUCKER, Georgia (June 13, 2023) – Last night, in a 6-1 vote, the Tucker City Council passed their nondiscrimination ordinance– providing critical protections to LGBTQ folks and other marginalized groups. Tucker became Georgia’s 15th municipality to offer such protections to those who live, work, and visit there.
“Thanks to the hard work of local advocates in Tucker, the passage of this ordinance ensures 38,000 more Georgians are provided the necessary protections from discrimination that we all deserve,” said Jeff Graham, Georgia Equality’s executive director. “All of us at Georgia Equality are proud to have been involved in this work, as we continue pushing for the passage of these protections in cities and counties across Georgia.”
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ATLANTA, Georgia (April 24, 2023) — Georgia Equality is deeply concerned following an increase in violent rhetoric and actions targeting the LGBTQ+ community across Georgia. This past weekend, several neighborhoods in Atlanta were littered with anti-Semitic and transphobic flyers which stoked fears of a “rise in transgenderism,” and spread harmful conspiracy theories about the trans community and Jewish individuals. Meanwhile, in Forsyth County, organizers of an all-ages drag event were forced to cancel the event after receiving violent threats. In response, Congressman Rich McCormick hosted a “family fun day” on the same day as the canceled event, calling it a “lewd drag queen performance,” and labeling it an “attempt to target and indoctrinate our children,” on his social media. Continue reading |