Our final episode looks outward and beyond the workplace into how businesses see themselves in a world that is becoming more gender diverse. Authentic representation in marketing will be discussed along with other ways businesses can make clear that they value TGNC customers.

Our second episode delves into ways businesses can be intentional about creating equity for their TGNC employees. The conversation will cover the importance of business resource groups, insurance benefits, pronouns, training, and other ways businesses are creating workplaces that value TGNC employees.

Justice and safety have long been sought by queer communities, whose lives have often been criminalized. In an era of increasing acceptance and laws decriminalizing being LGBTQ, we explore what it will take to create an equitable justice system. We will also discuss what it means to feel safe and what it will take to ensure our communities and institutions make it a priority.

Our first episode will explore the rise in visibility of transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) communities and the ways businesses are evolving to reflect an increasingly gender diverse population. This episode lays the groundwork for understanding how the cultural and legal landscape is changing and how it is affecting TGNC people and business.

The pandemic has completely transformed the way we view and experience health and wellbeing. Panelists discuss how the pandemic has specifically affected LGBTQ people’s overall health and wellbeing, and current research focusing on trans adults’ experiences in accessing healthcare and LGBTQIA+ resilience. The conversation also includes an exploration of LGBTQ research and campaigns around health and wellbeing that are helping to tell the story of LGBTQ southerners.

Join the LGBTQ Institute, Touching Up Our Roots, and Atlanta Pride, on Sunday, June 2nd and Sunday June 23rd at 1pm at the Center for Civil and Human Rights as we board the trolley with LGBT friends and allies to explore our LGBTQ history!

Our third annual symposium will explore the tangible ways we can create equity for transgender people in housing, employment and healthcare. Please join us for this event!

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (AAPIHM) takes place in May to celebrate the culture, traditions, and history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders across the United States. The Asian community is the fastest growing ethnic group in the U.S., though one of the most invisible when it comes to representation. This event aims to highlight the achievements and challenges of Southern LGBTQ AAPI people, as we know storytelling creates social change

Join the LGBT Institute at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights for our third annual forum as we provide an exclusive briefing for attendees about our first-ever Business Report. Based on our survey of 6,500+ LGBTQ people across 14 Southern states, it is one of the largest studies ever conducted. This exclusive first look will allow us to explore key insights that can better engage employees and help you avoid costly mistakes as you seek to engage LGBTQ customers. Afterwards, join us for cocktails and hors d'oeuvres and network with corporate leaders, our sponsors, and experts from the field.

This is one of the first initiatives to bring the most exclusive organizations in Metro Atlanta under one roof for a night of learning, sharing, and most importantly FUN! The event will highlight those organizations who offer services to same gender loving persons and those on the transgender spectrum.

The Atlanta Pride Committee and The LGBT Institute at The National Center for Civil and Human Rights are proud to partner with the Fox Theatre to celebrate the 29th anniversary of the legendary Stonewall Riots, which became a watershed moment for the LGBTQ civil and human rights movement in America. This first-of-its kind event in Atlanta features a comedy show with Wanda Sykes and Tig Notaro at the Fox Theatre on Wednesday, June 20 at 8 p.m. at the Fox Theatre. Local LGBTQ advocate and activist Feroza Syed will serve as the emcee the event.

Tour 2 will focus on the Ansley Mall area and Cheshire Bridge corridor.  The Midtown area (especially 10th and Piedmont) and the Cheshire Bridge-La Vista Road areas are some of the first locations locally to welcome openly LGBT businesses and enterprises. As such, they remain part of the fabric of our story here and of our human and civil rights saga.

Tour 1 will focus on the Little Five Points area and lesbian oriented spaces and events, as well as the Midtown area including some of the first openly gay bars like Mrs. P's on Ponce and sites of assaults like the raid on the Eagle bar on Ponce de Leon.

Members of the Atlanta Opera Studio will be joined by local favorite Tom Key as they perform selections from composer Jake Heggie‘s and librettist Gene Scheer’s Out of Darkness: Two Remain, a moving two-act opera based on true stories of two Holocaust survivors.

Join Charis, The LGBT Institute at the Center for Civil and Human Rights, and The Human Rights Campaign in welcoming activist and author Sarah McBride to Atlanta to share her profoundly beautiful new book, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality. 

In September 2017, journalist Gracie Bonds Staples of the Atlanta-Journal Constitution profiled five black gay men in Atlanta. In the series we shared our thoughts and ideas about how HIV impacts our communities. 

The Office of LGBTQ* Resources, in partnership with Feast on Equality, will host the seoncd annual Feast on Equality dinner benefiting the University of Kentucky Office of LGBTQ* Resources.

As part of its annual 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign, the CWGL and various university partners present a film screening and panel discussion about the challenges facing the LGBT community in Uganda.

Join the LGBT community and allies in Bridgewater, NJ for a sweet and satisfying afternoon on Friday, October 27, 2017 from 2-4 pm.

Official Atlanta Pride Kickoff!

Join us as we celebrate the two year anniversary of the LGBT Institute! It will be a relaxed night with wine and hors d'oeuvres, great conversation, and networking! Come and learn more about the work of the Institute and our plans for the future.

Tour 2 will focus on the Ansley Mall area and Cheshire Bridge corridor.  The Midtown area (especially 10th and Piedmont) and the Cheshire Bridge-La Vista Road areas are some of the first locations locally to welcome openly LGBT businesses and enterprises. As such, they remain part of the fabric of our story here and of our human and civil rights saga.