Fall Semester Development & Communications Intern
Duration: 10-12 weeks
Students receiving course credit preferred, not required.
Hours: The candidate must firmly commit to at least 10 hours per week with daily hours depending on the student’s class schedule and availability.
Location: Internship will be primarily remote, with some in-person, off-site events to be done. Occasional visits to Georgia Equality office (1530 DeKalb Avenue, Atlanta, GA) may be requested. Continue reading
I am deeply grateful for this honor, but in truth, all I’ve ever done is SAY GAY. The incriminating word was “homosexual” when I was a boy, and I said it to myself in my closet of despair. A crime, a sickness, a sin. Heavy burden for any young boy or girl.
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.