Mike Fleming

With stops at Heretic, Believe Music Hall, Future and Park Tavern, the gay Atlanta event crew Medusa Productions came, saw and conquered. Over the course of the Feb. 18-21 party series, no fewer than a dozen well known DJs dropped the beats. In the gallery below, our cameras caught the main event at Future on […]

Georgia’s urban and suburban areas score increasingly well each year as the Human Rights Campaign studies and rates LGBTQ equality initiatives and policies. It’s home to more and more corporations that rate well, too. Statewide, though, Georgia continues to rank among the lowest states in the nation. HRC’s State Equality Index came out last week, […]

LGBT Atlanta shows out in unexpected ways sometimes. That certainly goes for one of the NFL’s only out gay cheerleaders, Ben Ajani. But even he couldn’t have predicted what went down at the final Atlanta Falcons game of the season. As the team prepared to close the season against the Saints on Jan.…

Not doing Christmas? Doing it but looking for other stuff to fill your holidays off work? Keep scrolling for local and regional stuff that’s seasonal, not sappy. Tour Atlanta Centennial Olympic Park centennialpark.com Atlanta Botanical Garden atlantabg.org Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain callawayg…

On Monday, Augusta-Richmond County became the 14th municipality in Georgia to put a broad ordinance on the books protecting residents for discrimination by businesses within the city-county borders. “By its passage of a broad, inclusive nondiscrimination ordinance, Augusta has proclaimed its commitment to growing a community free for everyone to be who they are, raise their family, […]

Atlanta’s LGBTQ theatrical troupe kicks off its live-theater 2021-2022 season on Thursday with three fun-filled weeks of the musical favorite, “Xanadu.” The show is Out Front Theatre’s first full-scale production since March 2020. It follows online offerings, a few live events and months of creative…

The Q family of publications exists for your true colors. We are here for flying your unique flag. Those two promises collide quite literally this week. In the Pride issue of Q ATLus magazine and across this year’s Pride content on Project Q Atlanta, we renew our commitment to take LGBTQ rights beyond the rainbow. In an […]

If you build it, they will come. The big weekend in LGBTQ Atlanta was in corona chaos, and dozens of local event organizers planned a Pride Weekend masterpiece Keep scrolling and click on individual event titles for more information, pricing and the latest updates from each organizer. Thursday, Oct.…

The night isn’t called “Legends” for nothing. Still, the weekly drag show at X Midtown starring Shawnna Brooks went bigger with Eureka O’Hara. Way bigger. The self-anointed “Elephant Queen” of Drag Race, All Stars and We’re Here led a cast of popular locals. In addition to Miss Brooks and Nicole Pai…

A little rain can’t keep anyone away from going home to visit their mother on a Sunday. That goes double when your host is Jay “Mother” Malloy and the home is the Hideaway. This week, the Ansley Mall neighborhood bar was the perfect place for an afternoon of leather men, softball boys and every gay […]

Cosplayers and RuGirls and bears, oh my! Bear Pride, queer gaymers and drag guest stars don’t even make a dent in your list of options for a very gay weekend of events in Atlanta. Keep scrolling and click on each event title for more information and the latest updates from organizers. Friday, Sept. …

With just two weeks until its signature Atlanta Bear Pride weekend, Heretic kept up its relentless party pace. It welcomed a trippy new event concept on Friday with the Phallus Palace debut on Friday. Holetribe productions introduced itself to Atlanta with DJ Riley serving tribal house and techno be…

After a triumphant pivot against COVID last year, Atlanta’s LGBTQ film festival returns to in-person screenings on Sept. 23 – Oct. 3, but with a hybrid festival that keeps some online elements intact and even adds an art installation. “It’s wonderful to be back in theaters this year, and its equally…

What do you get when two female film industry pros with comedy roots curate an anything-goes cast representing the full spectrum of Atlanta stand-up talents? Thanks for asking. It’s Fire City Comedy, the live show running every other Sunday at Wild Heaven Brewery in the West End. “I think what makes our comedy show especially […]

Months of planning couldn’t do anything to keep the rain away, so Atlanta Pride Run & Walk brought its own rainbows to Piedmont Park on Sunday. The event stepped off with hundreds of festively dressed participants, dreary weather be damned. “When it rains, look for rainbows,” said a rain-or-shine po…

For consideration amid a steady flow of Pride Month streaming content, the reality series “Too Large” brings LGBTQ people to watch in June closer to home. Meet Corey Phelps, a Cartersville man featured in the latest episode of the Discovery+ show about weight transformations. The show features people undergoing weight-loss surgeries by Atlanta bariatric surgeon […]

The time that most people set aside for Pride has grown in recent years. What was once a weekend in June grew to a busy week of events, then to a full month. Though its official Pride celebration isn’t until October, Atlanta wholeheartedly takes part in Stonewall Month. This year, many organizers are working to […]