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News Articles: LGBT community

Lady Rippers member Kate skating just before facilitating a conversation on abortion in the wake of Roe v Wade being overturned.

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Abortion rights conversation ramps up at skate parks

The overturning of Roe v. Wade was a shock to many. People have been working through that shock in a lot of different ways since then. That includes the The Lady Rippers, an LGBTQ-friendly club of skateboarders who got together recently to talk — and skate — through their feelings.

August 03, 2022
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  • Amanda Andrews
Bentley Hudgins

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This Mercer grad could be Georgia’s first nonbinary state lawmaker. Meet Bentley Hudgins

Bentley Hudgins could make Georgia political history.

April 25, 2022
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  • Nick Wooten
A supporter for the transgender and non-binary community, wearing a transgender flag with handwritten names of black trans women who the person said were killed in 2019, strolls through the city's Midtown district during Gay Pride Festival's Transgender Rights March in Atlanta on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019.

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Political Rewind: Through Trials And Triumphs, LGBTQ+ Pride 50 Years After First Georgia March

Tuesday on Political Rewind: It has been 50 years since Atlanta’s first gay pride parade kicked off on Peachtree street in Atlanta. It was a small but momentous event. At the time, homosexuality was illegal under Georgia law, and members of the queer community typically lived lives in the shadows. But on June 27, 1971, marchers in Atlanta demanded an end to persecution and marginalization.

June 29, 2021
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Emilia Brock ,
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In a photo from March of last year, cars pass the illuminated Allianz Arena soccer stadium in Munich, Germany. UEFA has denied a request by the stadium to light up in rainbow colors Wednesday to protest a new Hungarian law seen as homophobic.

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German Stadiums Will Show Their Rainbow Colors To Support Hungary's LGBTQ Community

After a decision by UEFA to deny Munich's plan to light up its arena to protest a new Hungarian law seen as homophobic, other stadiums across the country said they would go ahead anyway.

June 23, 2021
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  • Scott Neuman
Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in Paris in Jan. 2020.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Directs Fiery Essay At Former Student — And Cancel Culture

Two literary stars from Nigeria are engaging in a very public feud — a fight that is both personal and also enfolds bigger questions about feminism, gender identity and social media.

June 17, 2021
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas

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