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A Man’s Gay Journey…Through Music
A break-up song, that song played at your wedding, that song that was so popular when you first came out…we all have certain songs that bring back special memories. Some are painful and others are...
Being Gay in the Age of COVID
Join Gregg Bossen as he interviews two local therapists, Kyle Keane and Brian Gieringer, about some of the issues occurring within Atlanta’s queer community as a result of social distancing. Is isolating increasing your feelings...
Open Relationships
Studies suggest that close to half of all gay male long-term couples allow for some form of sexual activity with others from time to time. These “open relationships” take many forms. Whether it be the...
Gay Republicans in the Age of Trump
The Log Cabin Republicans are the original and largest organization representing LGBTQ+ conservatives and straight allies in the country. Began in 1977 in California as a rallying point for Republicans opposed to the Briggs Initiative,...
The Intersection of Racism and Trans Aggression
Racism and Trans Aggression have both caused much pain and damage to millions. But few understand the roots of both much less the fact that much of the vilification of members of the Trans Community...
Out In The Archives Exhibition: Gay Life In Atlanta Over The Last 50 Years
On August 5, 1969, a little more than a month after the Stonewall riots in NYC, Atlanta had her own Stonewall of sorts, when police raided the Ansley Mall Mini-Cinema for showing a gay themed...
Methodists To Divide Over Gay Marriage
In May 2020 delegates for the United Methodist Church will convene in Minneapolis to decide how the United Methodist Church and its 13 million members will settle a fight over gay marriage and gay clergy...
Alice Austen: A Hero for Gay Women
Alice Austen (1866-1952) was one of America’s earliest and most prolific female photographers, and over the course of her life she captured about 8000 images. She was also gay, and had a lover for more...
Conversion Therapy
Ice pick lobotomies, chemical castration, electro shocks to the genitals…These are a few of the many techniques used in the past to try to convert a gay person to being straight. Although these rather barbaric...
Shame, Sex, Love and Homophobia: Case Study #1
The effects of growing up gay in a culture that told us something was wrong with us can be devastating even after we do come out. For many, these effects can be intensely personal, painful...