This year, for the first time, Macon Pride features a bit of theater, a performance of "Friend of the Groom." It's the story of a wedding between a gay white man and a Japanese woman who needs to marry an American to stay in the U.S. What is supposed to be a small wedding turns into an elaborate event. Starring in this one man performance is Mark Mobley, a writer and director of marketing and communications at the University of Georgia Performing Arts Center. Mobley spoke with GPB's Peter Biello.
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.
Love. Freedom. Truth. These some of the ways Black Women Photographers members describe Pride Month. Here, they share images of past Pride celebrations or projects focusing on LGBTQ stories.
There are a lot of Pride Month reading lists out there — so we thought we'd get away from the classics everyone knows. We asked author Akwaeke Emezi to recommend some of their favorite reads.
For the past three decades, Rosser Shymanski has played a critical role in almost every program you've watched on Georgia Public Broadcasting. Shymanski...
Celebrations continue across the country as the LGBTQ community celebrates Pride Month. President Bill Clinton declared June as “Gay & Lesbian Pride...
Neighbors are still missing their newly retired mailman. Floyd Martin was a beloved mail carrier who worked the same route in Marietta for nearly 35...
Most American cities celebrate LGBTQ Pride in June to commemorate the Stonewall Riots. In 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a bar in New York's...
June is Pride Month. This year, Atlanta’s Pride Committee and the LGBT Institute at the Center for Civil and Human Rights are partnering with the Fox...
