Atlanta: Black Gay Pride begins by remembering

By Laura Douglas-Brown, The Southern Voice

In the Life Atlanta's official Black Gay Pride events get underway tonight with a candlelight vigil created as "a celebration of life and an opportunity for attendees to share and honor those in our lives who have passed." The vigil is hosted by Tabernacle Baptist Church, whose pastor, Rev. Dennis Meredith, has built a successful ministry by reaching out to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

The Southern Voice has preview coverage here.

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Atlanta: The Southern Voice, 20 years

The Southern Voice, in Atlanta, has been writing about GLBT issues for over 20 years.

Today, they released a article which chronicles 20 years of Southern Voice cover pages.

Visit their site to view some of them.

Morehouse College faces its own bias -- against gays

By Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

ATLANTA -- Michael Brewer, a senior at Morehouse College, was strolling purposefully around this storied campus on a hot spring day, his heavy frame dripping sweat, his hands clutching a small stack of fliers.

"No more hate," the fliers read, in a stylish typeface. "No more discrimination. No more."

"What's up, brother?" Brewer said in a lilting, cheerful voice as he approached a fellow student in a dark business suit. "Take one of these, if you will."

The young man gave the flier a glance. It was promoting what was perhaps the most ambitious week of gay rights events in the history of Morehouse, the only historically black all-male school in America.

"What the hell is this?" he said under his breath. He laughed and threw it in the trash.

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