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News Articles: Pride Month

Cassidy Hutchinson, who was an aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the administration of former U.S. President Donald Trump, stands up in a public hearing of the U.S. House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol, at the Capitol, in Washington, U.S., June 28, 2022. Photo by Mandel Ngan/Pool via REUTERS

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Surprise January 6th hearing; voter registration yields gains for Republicans

Wednesday on Political Rewind: Will Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony at the January 6th Hearings have any effect on voters this November? Plus, the AP reports that a million voters have switched to the Republican Party. Meanwhile, more DAs say they will not enforce laws that restrict abortions.
 

June 29, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
PFLAG En Español members celebrate Pride in Los Angeles.

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  • Arts & Life

50 years ago, PFLAG's founder marched with her gay son. How's it keeping up in 2022?

PFLAG was started almost 50 years ago when gay people and their families were isolated and stigmatized. Now, the organization is finding new families to support and new legal battles to fight.

June 23, 2022
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
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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  • Politics

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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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Emilia Brock ,
  • and 1 more
Dancers take the stage at a Pride event in West Hollywood, Calif., on June 8, 2019.

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  • National

Photos: Pride And Queer Stories Through The Lens Of Black Women Photographers

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.

June 28, 2021
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By:
  • Amna Ijaz and
  • Emily Bogle

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  • Book Reviews

For June, 3 Romances That Prove Love Is Love Is Love

For Pride Month, we're bringing you some of the best queer romances around, starring daring English highwaymen, mysterious secret operatives and a long-lost (and extremely reluctant) princess.

June 19, 2021
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  • Maya Rodale
An East Texas bakery initially faced backlash over its Pride Month-themed cookies, but is now selling out of its goods and gaining fans across the country. It's also receiving donations and passing them along to local charities.

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  • National

A Texas Bakery Got Hate Mail Over Pride Cookies. Then The Community Rallied Behind It

Confections bakery in Lufkin, Texas lost customers after posting a picture of its rainbow-iced Pride Month cookies. It's now being flooded with orders and donations, and paying them forward.

June 11, 2021
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Akwaeke Emezi

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  • Author Interviews

4 Books To Broaden Your Pride Month Reading List

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.

June 08, 2021
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  • Noel King
Customers shop at Forsyth Farmers' Market.

Pride Party, Yacht Hopping, More Coastal Events June 27-30

As June closes out and we enter into the second half of the year, Savannah offers plenty of events to engage with from panels on mental health to final...

June 27, 2019
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By:
  • Kristen Rogers
In the 1980s, RuPaul (left) and Rosser Shymanski costarred on The American Music Show, a weekly public access variety television program, produced in Atlanta.

GPB's Rosser Shymanski, Star of The American Music Show, Reflects On Decades In Entertainment

For the past three decades, Rosser Shymanski has played a critical role in almost every program you've watched on Georgia Public Broadcasting. Shymanski...

June 26, 2019
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By:
  • Leighton Rowell and
  • Virginia Prescott

Do Businesses Show Their True Colors During LGBTQ Pride Month?

Celebrations continue across the country as the LGBTQ community celebrates Pride Month. President Bill Clinton declared June as “Gay & Lesbian Pride...

June 26, 2019
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By:
  • Emilia Brock and
  • Virginia Prescott
Wanda Sykes (left) and Tig Notaro perform at the Fox Theatre Wednesday, June 20.

Wanda Sykes, Tig Notaro Celebrate Pride Month In Atlanta

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...

June 20, 2018
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By:
  • La'Raven Taylor ,
  • Virginia Prescott ,
  • and 1 more
Christian Zsilavetz and his daughter Zoe interview one another at the GPB studio.

To Dad, From Zoe: A Father's Day Interview

Father's Day is this Sunday, so we handed the mic over to a dad whom we at On Second Thought know well: "Breakroom" regular Christian Zsilavetz ....

June 16, 2018
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By:
  • Leighton Rowell

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