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Gay Hall County businessman killed in robbery
David Sanchez, 46, of Gainesville, Ga., died Thursday at Northeast Georgia Medical Center from injuries sustained in a robbery. Sanchez, who was openly gay according to his friend Greg Bautista, was shot while outside Victory Processing plant on Memorial Park Drive in Gainesville. The Gainesville Times reports the Hall County Sheriff’s Department said that Sanchez was with a woman when they were forced out of their car and then multiple shots were fired. >>
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Ga. General Assembly adjourns with LGBT bills pending
The Georgia General Assembly ended its annual 40-day session March 29, leaving two LGBT bills on the table. State Rep. Rashad Taylor (D-Atlanta), who is gay, introduced a hate crime bill on the last day of the session. Taylor announced he would introduce the bill back in February, while speaking at a rally to protest the beating of Brandon White by gang members in southwest Atlanta who repeatedly called him “faggot.” A video of the beating went viral and made national headlines. Four men have been charged in the beating and a federal investigation continues to determine if the… >>
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Atlanta’s total cost for illegal police raid nears $3 million
Documents released by the city of Atlanta show that the city paid out more than $1.2 million for an independent investigation into the botched raid of the Atlanta Eagle. The documents show that high-profile law firm Greenberg Traurig charged the city more than $1.2 million for its three-month investigation and 349-page report of what happened at the Eagle the night of Sept. 10, 2009, when the gay bar was raided by the Atlanta Police Department after anonymous allegations about illegal sex and drug use at the bar. No drugs were found and nobody was arrested for illegal sex. The investigation… >>
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Out in office: Meet Ga.’s only openly gay mayor
You can safely say that Pine Lake’s 2012 Inaugural Ball was unlike any other held this year for elected officials in Georgia. The new mayor held a pink wand as she made her first speech, and danced with the town’s First Woman. Kathie deNobriga, 61, is a longtime advocate for the arts; she now works as a consultant and is a certified mediator. She moved to Pine Lake to be with her life partner, poet Alice Teeter, and was first elected to the City Council in the tiny Atlanta suburb in 2002. >>
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Pride Expo combines gay business, wedding vendors
The Atlanta Pride Expo promises more than 100 exhibitions as well as live music and entertainment during its two-day run at the Atlanta Convention Center at AmericasMart, set for April 21-22. “The Rainbow Wedding Network is doing their event with us and Carma Productions is also joining us to help people locate gay-owned and gay-friendly local businesses,” says Ray McCreay, vice president of Expo Inc., which is organizing the event. The event will include national and local exhibitors and a lineup of 15 entertainers during the two-day expo, he says. Price to enter the expo is $10 for… >>
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Atlanta Bucks ‘Purple Dress Run’ to plow through Midtown
If you happen to be in Midtown April 21, don’t be alarmed if you run into well over 100 buzzed big guys traipsing around in purple dresses. The sixth annual Purple Dress Run, a fundraiser for the Atlanta Bucks gay rugby team, takes over the city that day, and the 55-man team hopes to raise $5,000 with a little help from their friends. “The term ‘run’ is used loosely as it’s more of a 5K bar run/walk/crawl/waddle/saunter, depending primarily upon which point along the route you survey the participants,” jokes Bucks President Max Alvarado. “Aside from the… >>
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Atlanta Pride begins announcing June’s Stonewall schedule
The Atlanta Pride Committee has begun announcing the schedule for June’s Stonewall events, geared to commemorating the 1969 riots at the Stonewall Inn, where patrons of the gay bar fought back against harassment from New York City police. When the official Atlanta Pride Festival moved to October, organizers launched Stonewall events so that June’s historic riots would not go unnoticed in Atlanta. The schedule for this year is still being filled out, but so far includes book discussions, an event about LGBT issues related to health insurance, and the 15th annual East Point Possums show — the outdoor charity drag show… >>
Read more Atlanta Pride begins announcing June’s Stonewall schedule at The GA Voice…
WABE report: City paid more than $1.2 million in attorneys’ fees into Eagle investigation
The city of Atlanta turned over 150 pages of bills to WABE today showing that the city paid $1,233,853 in attorneys’ fees to Greenberg Traurig, the law firm that completed a lengthy investigation into the botched 2009 raid. Greenberg Traurig charged between $75 to $395 per hour for attorneys’ services, WABE reports . The Greenberg Traurig report , issued on June 28, 2011, showed that many of the allegations the patrons made against officers, including rough treatment and the violations of their constitutional rights, were indeed true. >>
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