Georgia LGBTQ Archives Project

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Global-Local Connection for LGBT Rights event stirs up conversation

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Global-Local Connection for LGBT Rights event stirs up conversation

The evening’s conversation covered an array of topics, including but not limited to anti-LGBT laws across the world, bullying, the school-to-prison pipeline, Black Lives Matter, Trans Lives Matter, the role of social media in activism, HIV/AIDS and LGBT elders.

Photo Credit: Patrick Saunders

Atlanta’s National Center for Civil and Human Rights to open LGBT Institute

Atlanta’s National Center for Civil and Human Rights to open LGBT Institute

"One important aspect of the Institute is that it will be housed inside the Center for Civil and Human Right, an organizational reason not without symbolism. It fights back against the notion that LGBT rights aren’t civil rights."