As Atlanta City Council President Felicia Moore launches her campaign for mayor, she discusses her commitment to LGBTQ equality, efforts to fix the city’s HIV housing program, the safety of Black transgender women and police reform.

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Felicia Moore on LGBTQ issues, why she wants to be Atlanta’s mayor

Kyle Lamont and Hillary Williams Thomas, co-chairs of the Bayard Rustin-Audre Lorde Breakfast, discuss hosting the LGBTQ celebration of MLK during a pandemic, honoring people often overlooked and organizing a diverse LGBTQ coalition in a segmented Atlanta.

LGBTQ organizers recreate MLK celebration for corona reality

Ahead of his live show in Atlanta, out country music singer Ty Herndon talks faith, collaborating with Kristin Chenoweth, coming out and going to Swinging Richards as a closeted man.

Out country crooner Ty Herndon plays by his own rules

Gay Atlanta baker Jamaal Nettles discusses how he’s gone from boxed cakes as a kid to Season 7 of the Food Network’s “Holiday Baking Championship,” living down being “single and ready to jingle” and death by a spreading cheesecake.

Meet the Atlanta baker taking his love of pies to the Food Network

Gay Atlantan Jeff Gray discusses his evolution from home baker to a contestant on Season 7 of Food Network’s “Holiday Baking Championship” and why lemon meringue pie pushes him to the brink of tears.

‘Santa from Atlanta’ delivers the baked goods to Food Network

Queer comedian Sampson McCormick dishes about what happens when a church boy goes on a gay cruise, his tricks for surviving 2020 and celebrating World AIDS Day in Atlanta.

Sampson McCormick is ready to get Butterball naked with Atlanta

Queer Atlanta comedian Ian Aber on how coronavirus killed his grilled cheese sandwiches, finding love on a Wednesday at Blake’s, gay litter in the service industry and rebooting his “str8 ppl” podcast during the pandemic.

Ian Aber on staying sassy and queer during corona

Atlanta Eagle owner Richard Ramey reveals what really led the iconic leather bar to close, plans for a new location and how it became an unlikely champion of civil rights and police reform.

Winter is coming: Richard Ramey on why the Atlanta Eagle is closing

When Chanel Haley transitioned more than two decades ago, resources to navigate her life as a black transgender woman were scarce. It’s why she now dedicates so much time to training cops and businesses on transgender issues and other trans people on how to be advocates for themselves.

Meet the Atlanta trans woman training police about humility

Atlanta’s LGBTQ film festival Out on Film is back. But in the age of COVID-19, it’s a drastically different event this year. We preview the event with Festival Director Jim Farmer and filmmaker Eammon Ashton-Atkinson, the director of “Steelers.” The documentary follows the journey of the world’s first gay rugby club on its quest to win the largest international gay rugby tournament. 

A behind-the-scenes look at Atlanta’s Out on Film festival

With five years as a state lawmaker and a recent Congressional race under her belt, Keisha Waites said she has the blend of experience needed to “make a measurable difference” during what’s left of U.S. Rep. John Lewis’ term. She is one of two LGBTQ candidates in the seven-person special election. Waites discusses her track record as a state lawmaker, the coronavirus pandemic, fighting HIV in the 5th District and the issues she would tackle if elected.

Keisha Waites wants to be ‘fierce advocate’ for LGBTQs in Congress

Chase Oliver jumped into the special election to complete the unexpired term of U.S. Rep. John Lewis to provide “more choices and more voices” on the ballot. He’s the only Libertarian and one of two LGBTQ candidates in the seven-person race. The former Democrat talks about becoming a Libertarian, protecting black transgender people, campaigning during corona, combatting HIV and breaking through to voters in Georgia’s heavily Democratic 5th District.

Chase Oliver hopes to be Georgia’s first LGBTQ member of Congress

Jorge Estevez – WSB’s first openly gay and second Latinx prime time anchor – arrived in Atlanta just weeks before the world turned upside down. He talks with us about anchoring in a new city during crises, battling those pandemic pounds, his tough coming out story, besties and convincing a Republican mayor to preside at his wedding.

WSB-TV’s Jorge Estevez on pandemic pounds, coming out and anchoring during a crisis

Jon Ossoff has embraced LGBTQ equality and made his support of LGBTQ people central to his campaign for a U.S. Senate seat in Georgia. It’s the same refreshing approach he took during his 2017 U.S. House race in metro Atlanta. In an interview, Ossoff goes in-depth on his commitment to LGBTQ people, transgender healthcare and safety, reforming policing, the racial justice movement and the coronavirus pandemic.

Jon Ossoff on LGBTQ equality, protecting trans people and policing

Mariah Parker turned her political activism and Hip-Hop experience into a run for public office, becoming the first LGBTQ person elected to the Athens-Clarke County Commission. Throughout her transition from activist and artist to elected official, Parker has thrived to be her authentic self – blemishes and all. In fact, she argued, that’s why she’s won two elections in two years.

Mariah Parker on protesting, policing and public office in Athens

Podcast Q is a weekly podcast from Project Q Atlanta exploring LGBT issues, people and places in metro Atlanta.

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