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Katie Burkholder
Since 2016, the same political adage has been on repeat: vote like your life depends on it, because it does. Ever since former president Donald Trump entered the political sphere, Democrats and leftists have been fighting tooth and nail to keep him out of office. Last election we were successful, but with four years of hindsight, we can see that getting a Democrat into office doesn’t mark the end of our work — it’s only the beginning.
In 2020, we “voted like our lives depended on it” and got Joe Biden into office. We were victorious, yet Roe v. Wade was still overturned. Biden, to his credit, tried to cancel student loans like he said he would, but was blocked by Republicans. People’s homes and lives were threatened by natural disasters made more destructive by climate change. At the time of writing, there have been 426 mass shootings in the U.S. and 1,123 children have died by gun
violence — in 2024 alone. More women and children have been killed in Gaza by the Israeli military — which Biden supports — over the past year than in any other year of conflicts spanning the last two decades.
None of this is evidence we elected the wrong candidate. It was imperative in 2020 that Biden was elected over Trump, just as it is imperative that we elect Kamala Harris this year. What it is evidence of, however, is that the presidential election is little more than a means of harm reduction, and your vote in local elections and direct involvement with your community matter year-round.
When we elect Harris as president, nothing will be over. We can sigh with relief that somebody with an extensive pro-LGBTQ record beat out a transphobic, fascist felon, but to rest on our laurels for the next four years, comfortable in our supposed success while we watch the same issues plaguing this nation continue to sink their teeth into our lives, will be a mistake.
With our sights set on electing Harris in an ever-closer race against Trump, we must keep in mind that when we go into the ballot box, we will also be voting on local elections. This year marks a special election for a seat on Atlanta City Council, elections for seats in the House of Representatives and state legislative positions, as well as amendments to the Constitution of Georgia and other local issues — all of which matter just as much, if not more, than the presidential election. And once November 5 passes us by, local nonprofits and community organizers will still be working year-round to make Atlanta, Georgia, and America better places to live — and it’s never too late for you to get involved.
As long as advocacy for our livelihoods begins and ends with a presidential election every four years, we will never be truly safe or free. Vote like your life depends on it, but remember that our lives will not be saved unless we demand they be by all levels of leadership, year-round.
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Harris Says Trump is ‘Cruel’ as She Spotlights Abortion Restrictions in Georgia During Early Voting
ATLANTA (AP) – Vice President Kamala Harris said October 19 that Republican former President Donald Trump was “cruel” for how he talked about the grieving family of a Georgia mother who died after waiting 20 hours for a hospital to treat her complications from an abortion pill, as she put combating restrictions on reproductive care at the center of her pitch to voters.
At a rally in Atlanta, Harris blamed Amber Thurman’s death on Georgia’s abortion restrictions that took effect after the Supreme Court in 2022, with three Trump-appointed justices, overturned Roe v. Wade. It comes as Harris is looking to the issue to propel support to Democrats, who have pledged to restore a national right to abortion if they win the White House and enough seats in Congress.
“Donald Trump still refuses to take accountability, to take any accountability, for the pain and the suffering he has caused,” Harris said.
Thurman’ story features at the center of one of Harris’ closing campaign ads, and her family attended her Atlanta rally, with her mother holding a photo of her daughter from the audience. Harris showed a clip of Trump saying during a recent Fox News Channel town hall, when he was asked about the Thurman family joining a separate media call, “We’ll get better ratings, I promise.”
“A grieving family, a grieving family, sharing the memory of their daughter with our nation. Where is the compassion?” she asked. “What we see continually from Donald Trump is exactly what that clip shows,” Harris added. “He belittles their sorrow, making it about himself and his television ratings. It is cruel.”
Roderick Williams, 56, brought his three daughters to Harris’ Atlanta rally. His youngest daughter was born around the time former President Barack Obama entered
office, and he hopes they can witness history again by seeing Harris become the first Black woman to be president.
“It’s important for them to see that anything’s possible,” Williams said.
Anti-LGBTQ Ads Dog Democrats in Key Races as Polls Tighten
Key congressional races and the contest for the White House have become even tighter according to polling data released this week, as Republican campaigns, including former President Donald Trump’s team, targeted their opponents with $65 million in antiLGBTQ and especially anti-trans attack ads.
With just 20 days until November 5, Sean Meloy, vice president of political programs at the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund, spoke with the Washington Blade about how the GOP’s “despicable” paid media strategy is impacting races up and down the ballot.
“This is gonna be the most anti-LGBTQ [election] year probably since 2004, when it comes to presidential rhetoric,” Meloy said.
Many of the LGBTQ candidates supported by his organization are now contending with attacks against their very identities. Among them is incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin of the key swing state of Wisconsin, an out lesbian who made history with her elections to the House and then to the Senate — but is now, Meloy said, in the
“fight of her life.”
Her reelection is critical for Democrats to retain their narrow majority in the Senate so Vice President Kamala Harris can effectuate her agenda if she wins the White House.
Other Democrats in close Senate races, like U.S. Rep. Colin Allred of Texas, who is running to unseat anti-LGBTQ U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, and U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, who is fending off a challenge from Republican businessman Bernie Moreno, have been targeted with anti-LGBTQ advertising, too.
The ads, riddled with falsehoods, focus primarily on the lawmakers’ support for allowing trans women and girls to compete on sports teams aligning with their gender identity.
In response, Allred cut a commercial in which he says, “I’m a dad. I’m also a Christian. My faith has taught me that all kids are god’s kids. So let me be clear. I don’t want boys playing girls sports, or any of this ridiculous stuff that Ted Cruz is saying.”
“I think in the end, it’s going to prove not to work,” Meloy added, referring to the GOP’s strategy of “demonizing our community for political points.”
Echoing remarks from other LGBTQ leaders like Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson, Meloy said the Republicans who leveraged anti-LGBTQ/ anti-trans attacks in elections last year and in 2022 were mostly unsuccessful.
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign event October 19 at Lakewood Amphitheatre in Atlanta. AP PHOTO/JACQUELYN MARTIN
Polls Remain Close as Presidential Election Draws Nearer
North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Arizona.
Following President Joe Biden’s exit from the presidential race in July, Vice President Kamala Harris has been rallying voters around what she calls an Opportunity Economy; safeguarding reproductive, voting, and LGBTQ rights; and ensuring safety and justice for all. While her campaign and performance at the presidential debate on September 10 have put her in a better position than Biden against former President Donald Trump, with less than two weeks before Election Day, polls show the two candidates neck-and-neck.
While a Fox News poll found that Trump was up against Harris 50%–48% among likely voters as of October 16, polls from Marist College, The Economist/YouGov, Emerson College, and Reuters/Ipsos show Harris narrowly leading over Trump. As of October 18, Harris leads Trump in FiveThirtyEight’s
Political analyst and statistician Nate Silver put Harris’ odds of winning at 50.1%–49.7%, writing for his Substack “Silver Bulletin” that he has “never seen an election in which the forecast spent more time in the vicinity of 50/50.”
Before President Biden dropped out of the race on July 21, Trump led Biden by four percentage points following the latter’s poor debate performance on June 27. While Harris has erased Trump’s lead, her lead has been slowly decreasing over the past two months after a peak of 3.7 points in late August.
Because the national polls are so close, experts say they are not key indicators of what should be expected come November and more attention should be paid to polls in the seven battleground states: Georgia,
“Ignore all the national polls,” Hamline University professor David Schultz told CBS News. “What’s really critical to look at are the polls in the swing states, and they are close.”
As of October 14, Harris led in the battleground states 50%–49%. These seven states represent 93 possible electoral votes of the 270 required to be elected.
Georgia, which offers 16 electoral votes, officially became a swing state during the last Presidential election after Biden won by just over 12,000 votes — the first time a Democratic presidential candidate won in Georgia since Bill Clinton in 1992. As of October 16, Trump leads Harris in Georgia by seven points, as well as in Arizona and Nevada, while Harris leads in the other four states.
Due to Georgia’s influence on both the last and current elections, Harris returned to Georgia for a rally on October 19, only a little over three weeks before Election Day.
According to a 2021 poll from GLAAD, the LGBTQ community helped tip the 2020 election in Biden’s favor, with 93 percent of registered LGBTQ voters voting in the election. In response to the power of LGBTQ voters, the DNC launched a six-figure ad campaign targeting LGBTQ voters in the battleground states and kicked off early voting in Georgia with a mobile billboard campaign during Atlanta Pride urging LGBTQ voters to vote for Democrats.
Early voting is underway until November 1 before Election Day on November 5. To find your polling place or early voting locations, visit mvp.sos.ga.gov.
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump (left) and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris during an ABC News presidential debate at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on September 10. AP PHOTO/ALEX BRANDON
Katie Burkholder
Harris Attends Church in Georgia and Encourages Black Congregants to Vote
Kamala Harris went to church in an Atlanta suburb on October 20, addressing the faithful and encouraging Black congregants to vote as part of a nationwide campaign push known as “souls to the polls.”
The Democratic nominee for president attended services at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, where many women in the audience work pink to promote awareness of breast cancer. Harris plans a midday stop at Divine Faith Ministries International in Jonesboro, joined by singer Stevie Wonder, before taping an interview with the Rev. Al Sharpton that will air later Sunday on MSNBC
The vice president’s running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, is scheduled to go to church in Saginaw, Michigan, and his wife, Gwen, will be at a service in Las Vegas.
The mobilization effort that launched October 13 is led by the National Advisory Board of Black Faith Leaders, which is sending representatives across battleground states as early voting begins in the November 5 election.
“My father used to say, a ‘voteless people is a powerless people’ and one of the most important steps we can take is that short step to the ballot box,” Martin Luther King III said Friday. “When Black voters are organized and engaged, we have the power to shift the trajectory of this nation.”
The schedule for Harris on her 60th birthday reflects her campaign’s push to treat every voting group like a swing state voter, trying to appeal to them all in a tightly contested election with early voting in progress.
On Saturday, the vice president rallied supporters in Detroit with singer Lizzo before
traveling to Atlanta to focus on abortion rights, highlighting the death of a Georgia mother amid the state’s restrictive abortion laws that took effect after the U.S. Supreme Court, with three justices nominated by Donald Trump, overturned Roe v. Wade.
And after her Sunday push, she will campaign with former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., in the suburbs of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
“Donald Trump still refuses to take accountability, to take any accountability, for the pain and the suffering he has caused,” Harris said.
Harris is a Baptist whose husband, Doug Emhoff, is Jewish. She has said she’s inspired
by the work of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and influenced by the religious traditions of her mother’s native India as well as the Black Church. Harris sang in the choir as a child at Twenty Third Avenue Church of God in Oakland.
“Faith is a verb. It is something we show in action and in service,” she said on Instagram last week as she attended services at a church in Greenville, North Carolina.
“Souls to the polls” as an idea traces back to the Civil Rights Movement. The Rev. George Lee, a Black entrepreneur from Mississippi, was killed by white supremacists in 1955 after he helped nearly 100 Black residents register to vote in the town of Belzoni. The cemetery where Lee
is buried has served as a
Black church congregations across the country have undertaken get-out-the-vote campaigns for years. In part to counteract voter suppression tactics that date back to the Jim Crow era, early voting in the Black community is stressed from pulpits nearly as much as it is by candidates.
In Georgia, early voting began on Tuesday, and more than 310,000 people voted on that day, more than doubling the first-day total in 2020. A record 5 million people voted in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
This story has been corrected to reflect that the mobilization effort launched October 13, not October 20.
Colleen Long, Associated Press
polling place.
Attendees sing during a service October 20 at New Birth Baptist Church before Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks in Stonecrest, Georgia. AP PHOTO/JACQUELYN MARTIN
Project 2025 Poses Threat to LGBTQ Community
With November’s Presidential election drawing near, Atlantans — along with the rest of the United States — must contend with the realities of two very different candidates and two very different possible administrations.
Though competing displays between candidates have drummed up the public’s attention — from Trump’s recent appearance cooking fries at McDonald’s to Harris’ viral Kamala HQ TikTok account — the policies associated with the candidates have also stirred speculation on what their time in office could look like. Recently, attention has centered on Project 2025 — a 900-page policy platform and playbook created by The Heritage Foundation, a conservative D.C. think tank.
The document outlines in detail the sweeping changes the next conservative administration should make within the federal government, from the White House to the Department of Justice to the Federal Reserve. As its length suggests, Project 2025 is not just a collection of a few key policies, but a biblical overhaul of the American governmental system.
Logically, Project 2025 would be implemented in the next Republican administration. However, with more than half of registered voters holding a “very negative” view of the project, according to a recent NBC News poll, Trump has attempted to distance himself from the conservative manifesto. During the presidential debate on September 10, Trump asserted that he had “nothing to do” with the project. Despite his efforts, the role of former Trump officials in the creation of Project 2025 has raised questions about whether Trump would disregard Project 2025 upon taking office. For example, Mandy Gunasekara, the former chief of staff of the
Project 2025’s anti-LGBTQ proposals are based on one idea: LGTBQ people are a danger to society, both in schools and in the working world. IMAGE BY SHUTTERSTOCK.COM/ VISUALS6X
Environmental Protection Agency, advocates for the reduction of the EPA’s jurisdiction in her section of the playbook.
Among the hundreds of policy changes proposed by the authors, some of the most notable revolve around LGBTQ rights.
Lindsey Burke, the Director of the Center for Education Policy at the Heritage Foundation, outlines the proposals for the Department of Education in Section 3 of the platform. In her section, Burke advises for the dissolution of the Department of Education, distributing much of the department’s powers back to the states, with the remainder being absorbed by other
departments. Part of the motivation for greatly curtailing the federal government’s role in public education lies in the recent conservative pushback against inclusive classroom policies.
In Georgia, controversy over public education curriculum has sent waves through both local government and the state legislature. Last legislative session, the Georgia Senate passed House Bill 1104, a conglomeration of various conservative policies aimed at preventing transgender students’ participation in sports, alerting parents whenever their child checks out a book from a school library, and limiting access to sex education policy. Project 2025
reflects a similar demonization of LGBTQ students on a national level, arguing for amendments to Title IX that would place strict definitions on “sex” and the passage of a federal-level Parents Bill of Rights — similar to the one Georgia’s legislature passed in 2022 — which would give parents undue influence over their students’ curriculum and teachers.
Furthermore, when it comes to employer discrimination against LGBTQ people, Project 2025 argues for curtailing the scope of implementing the Supreme Court’s 2020 Bostock v. Clayton County decision, which asserted that Title VII prevented discrimination against employees based on their sexuality or gender identity.
Overall, Project 2025’s anti-LGBTQ proposals are based on one idea: LGTBQ people are a danger to society, both in schools and in the working world. With a strong focus on eliminating the diversity, equity, and inclusion principles that have been incorporated into the federal government over the past few years, Project 2025 argues for the alienation of LGBTQ community members and the restoration of “traditional” values of sex and sexuality.
It is clear that, though Trump insists otherwise, his strong ties to the creators of Project 2025 naturally lead to the reality that, if he is elected, many of these detrimental policies and federal reorganizations would be implemented, harming LGBTQ communities across the nation and emboldening state legislatures to take their anti-LGBTQ legislation even further.
Voting has never been more essential to protecting our rights and our democracy. Early voting began in Georgia on October 15 and continues until November 1, before Election Day on November 5.
Hunter Buchheit
What’s On This Year’s Georgia Ballot?
As Election Day approaches, it’s important to know what will be on your local ballot. You can find an applicable sample ballot on the Georgia My Voter Page. Georgia voters can expect to see three statewide measures that would impact taxation if passed.
Georgia Amendment 1 would cap ad valorem tax, or taxes based on a property's assessed value. Georgia Amendment 2 would expand the state judicial system to establish a tax court. Georgia Referendum A would increase the threshold for tax exemption based on tangible personal property.
Georgia Amendment 1, Local Option Homestead Property Tax Exemption Amendment
If passed, Georgia Amendment 1 would be welcome to some and come at a cost to others. The statewide homestead exemption would apply to all counties, school systems, and municipalities unless they opt-out.
The proposed constitutional amendment would limit a homeowner’s property tax, regardless of its valuation. The measure is expected to relieve homeowners as they feel the effects of inflation. However, the amendment would not apply to landlords, who may burden their tenants with the rise in property value.
A total of 36 out of Georgia’s 159 counties have implemented an exemption that locks in the property valuation at the base year level, as long as the homeowner continues to reside at the property.
Inflation rates differ across industries, so Georgia Amendment 1 would ensure that the increase in property tax for the homeowner matches the overall rate of inflation, even if their home’s value increased (due to inflation) at a higher rate. The amendment would not apply to new homeowners, who will be taxed based on the home’s current value.
According to the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, voters will not get the necessary
context on the ballot to understand the impact of Georgia Amendment 1. Primarily, voters may not know that the lack of revenue from the capped property taxes will affect everyone, including non-homeowners. If passed, the amendment could negatively impact funding for local school systems and even raise local sales tax to make up for the loss in revenue.
Georgia Amendment 2, Creation of Tax Court Amendment
Georgia Amendment 2 would create a statewide tax court that would function alongside the superior courts. The measure would establish a tax court in the judicial system, moving it from the tax tribunal within the state’s executive branch.
Amendment 2 would establish the Georgia Tax Court with statewide jurisdiction, concurrent with business and superior courts in equity cases. Judges, appointed by
the governor and confirmed by legislative committees, would serve four-year terms.
The constitutional amendment would also guarantee that appeals would be heard in the Georgia Court of Appeals. If approved, the measure would amend Article VI of the Georgia Constitution, which governs the state's judicial system. The Georgia House unanimously passed House Resolution 598 on February 27, followed by near-unanimous approval from the Georgia Senate on March 20.
The amendment is expected to simplify and expedite the current hearing and appeals process.
Georgia Referendum A, Personal Property Tax Exemption Increase Measure
Voting “yes” for Georgia Referendum A would increase the current property tax
exemption for personal property from $7,500 or less to $20,000 or less.
The last referendum on this exemption was approved in 2002 when Georgia voters approved an increase from $500 to $7,500. Another measure impacting ad valorem tax, Georgia Referendum A was created to support small businesses that have been impacted by rising inflation rates.
The measure still does not apply to motor vehicles, trailers, or mobile homes.
Early voting ends Friday, November 1. Visit georgia.gov/vote-early-person to find your in-person early voting location. If you plan to vote on Election Day, November 5, visit georgia.gov/vote-in-person-electionday for a how-to guide. To learn more about revenue and taxation policies in Georgia, visit gbpi.org.
Adalei Stevens
Georgia voters can expect to see three statewide measures that would impact taxation if passed. PHOTO BY SHUTTERSTOCK.COM
Devin Barrington-Ward’s
‘Street-Informed’ Run for City Council
While all eyes are set on the presidential race this November, another crucial election is happening in Atlanta. Back in March, Atlanta City Council member Keisha Sean Waites announced she would be resigning from her position a year before the end of the term to launch a bid for Fulton County Superior Court clerk. Of the five candidates running to fill her seat, Devin BarringtonWard is the only member of Atlanta’s LGBTQ community and running on a people-first platform.
Barrington-Ward has almost two decades of community organizing experience, starting his work in 2006 with Stacey Abrams as a canvasser on his first campaign for the State House of Representatives. Since then, he has organized around LGBTQ youth homelessness, HIV prevention and treatment, the reimagining of public safety and law enforcement accountability, and housing justice. Now, he’s running for Atlanta City Council on a platform of housing as a human right, workers’ rights and living wages, green infrastructure, combating climate change, and public safety for all. Because Barrington-Ward is so involved with the community and grassroots work, he knows that these are the biggest issues facing Atlantans.
“These issues are based on the conversations that I have with people in neighborhoods and when they come to City Hall frustrated that something hasn’t gotten done,” he told Georgia Voice. “They are policy issues that are connected to statistics that many Atlantans know all too well, like us being one of the top cities for new cases of HIV, and Atlanta being the number one city for racial income inequality, for the lack of permanent shelter space for LGBTQ youth and a whole host of
other unsheltered populations. This agenda is a working-class progressive agenda that is grounded in the needs of people and the people that I speak to and work with the community … I have this concept of what is called street-informed public policy. I don’t really prioritize issues that the streets aren’t talking about.”
Despite the disparity of attention paid between national and local elections — as well as the historic nature of this year’s presidential election and the potential of Kamala Harris to be the first Black woman president — Barrington-Ward believes that local elections actually have a far deeper felt impact on constituents.
“I would say that the majority of the issues that people are talking about are at the state and local level,” he said. “Oftentimes, the impacts of what a president does or does not do is not seen for many years, but the impacts of what is done by City Hall is felt almost immediately. When we’re talking about issues of housing affordability, when we’re talking about issues of mass transportation, when we’re talking about issues related to public health and how we end the HIV epidemic, much of that leadership is required at the local level.”
One plan he has to directly impact the lives of Atlantans is a baby bonds initiative, which would invest money for low- and middle-
“If
you don’t express yourself, you’ll erase yourself, and one of the most important ways to express yourself is through the ballot box, and so I think it’s imperative that queer Atlantans see the value of voting in this election.”
— Devin Barrington-Ward
income children born in Atlanta into bonds that would earn them $30,000 to $64,000, which they could use to invest in their futures — just one example of the “transformative public policy that can be done [at the local level] with less bureaucracy than exists at the federal level.”
As a Black queer man, Barrington-Ward wants the Atlantans who make the city a Black queer mecca and cultural epicenter to see themselves in their leadership and use their voting power to advocate for themselves and their communities.
“If you don’t express yourself, you’ll erase yourself, and one of the most important ways to express yourself is through the ballot box, and so I think it’s imperative that queer Atlantans see the value of voting in this election,” he said.
To learn more about Devin BarringtonWard’s campaign, visit devinforatlanta.us. To find your polling place or early voting locations, visit mvp.sos.ga.gov.
Katie Burkholder
Devin Barrington-Ward PHOTO VIA FACEBOOK
Getting Ready for Election Day
Grant Park
Grant Park Recreation Center
Editor’s note: This is a partial republication of important voting information originally published in Georgia Voice on September 5, 2024.
Come November 5, Americans will come together to participate in what LGBTQ activists are calling one of the most important elections of our time. Ahead of Election Day, we’ve got all the information you need to cast your vote.
Important Dates
Advance Voting: Now through November 1 General Election: November 5
Early Voting Locations
During the Advance Voting period, Fulton County Voters can vote at any of the Fulton County Advance Voting locations noted below. Election Day, however, voters must report to their assigned Election Day polling location to cast their ballot. To find your Election Day polling place, visit mvp.sos.ga.gov.
*denotes an absentee ballot drop box location
Alpharetta
Alpharetta Library*
Robert F. Fulton Ocee Library
Buckhead
Buckhead Library*
Chastain Park Recreation Center
Northside Library
Cascade
Adams Park Library
C.T. Martin Recreation Center*
Evelyn G. Lowery Library at Cascade
College Park
Hugh C. Conley Recreation Center
East Point
East Point First Mallalieu United
'Methodist Church*
Johns Creek
Johns Creek Environmental Campus
Northeast Spruill Oaks Library
Midtown/Virginia Highlands
High Museum
Joan P. Garner Library at Ponce de Leon
Milton
Milton Community Center
Milton Library
Palmetto
Palmetto Library
Roswell
East Roswell Library*
Fulton Co. Customer Service Center at Maxwell Rd.
Roswell Library
Sandy Springs
Heritage Hall at Sandy Springs
North Fulton Service Center
Sandy Springs Library*
South Atlanta
Louise Watley Library at Southeast Atlanta
Metropolitan Library
South Fulton
Gladys S. Dennard Library at South Fulton
South Fulton Service Center
Southwest Arts Center
Welcome All Recreation Center
Wolf Creek Library*
Union City Elections Hub
Etris-Darnell Community Fairburn Annex
Westside
Northwest Library at Scotts Crossing
Katie Burkholder
LGBT-Boo! Queer Things to Do This Halloween
Katie Burkholder
It’s time for the gayest holiday of the year! If you’re still looking for some last-minute plans for Halloween, we’ve got you covered with the best spooky LGBTQ parties and events!
Free Spirits Concert
Now through October 31
Virtual
Enjoy the Halloween spirit from the comfort of your home all October long with the Atlanta Women’s Chorus’ stream of their 2023 Halloween concert, Free Spirits! Featuring a plethora of spooky songs, Free Spirits presents choral selections that range from Orban’s “Daemon Irrepit Callidus” all the way to “Time Warp” from the Rocky Horror Picture Show! This concert will provide something for everyone and get you into the Halloween spirit! Get access at aftontickets.com/freespirits.
Nightmare on Crescent
October 26, 8pm
My Sister’s Room
Celebrate at My Sister’s Room’s 28th annual Halloween bash, with the Sirens, Caro with Fire, Cucky DeVille, and Buffy! $500 goes to the best costume overall! Tickets at mysistersroom.com.
DANCE: Halloween Party
October 26, 9pm
The Basement Party to the best ’90s and ’00s music with
DJs Pat Tate Fashions and Capeeton
Mudfish and win $$ for the best costume! Tickets at rebelity.com/events/v2/6120/dancehalloween-2024.
Country Stampede Halloween
October 27, 7pm
Atlanta Eagle
Country-fy this Halloween with linedancing and country sounds from DJ Dice! Plus: a costume contest, $6 Yoco vodka, and $3 Coors Banquet!
Fruitcake: Halloween Edition
October 27, 8pm
Wylie Hotel
Wet your whistle with the ghosts of Mrs. P’s past! Come serving Midcentury Ghoulish Glamour and enjoy performances by Brigitte
Bidet, Chucky DeVille, and Lena Lust, plus music by DJ NeonHorror! Tickets at posh.vip/e/ mrs-ps-presents-fruitcake-halloween-edition.
SWITCH: Hocus Pocus vs.
Rocky Horror
October 27, 9pm
My Sister’s Room
Starring Annie Agurl, Bourdreaux, Dotte Com, Eros Etoile, Hannibal Montannibal, Molly ALXNDR, and host Taylor ALXNDR. Come in costume to compete for the grand prize! $15 cover.
Who’s Go “IT” – Halloween Edition
October 28, 9pm
Atlanta Eagle
Get spooky with host Cici Nicole! The best audience costume wins a $100 prize! $10 entry.
Wussy Art House: High Tension
October 31, 7:30pm
Tara Theatre
Wussy Mag hosts this special 35mm screening of “High Tension.” Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia’s parents’ secluded farmhouse, but on the night of their arrival, the girls’ idyllic getaway turns into an endless night of horror. Tickets at taraatlanta.com.
Machoween
October 31, 8pm
Joystick Gamebar
Get ready to step into the ring at this wrestling-themed Halloween party! Enjoy all games on free play, a costume contest, and an open hype mic!
Mannequin: Club Kid Halloween
October 31, 10pm
The Basement
Mannequin is back on All Hallow’s Eve for a night for dancing, looks, and club kid mayhem! With DJ Kimber and hosts Eden and Montre! Tickets at posh.vip/e/mannequinclub-kid-halloween.
Nightmare Before Christmas Boogie Ball
November 1, 10pm
The Basement
Enjoy performances, a Creepy Christmas Couture Contest, and hours of dance music spanning genres and holidays! Tickets via Eventbrite.
Cici Nicole hosts Who’s Go “IT” – Halloween Edition PHOTO VIA FACEBOOK
Positive Impact Hosts Annual Comedy Show to Benefit
HIV and LGBTQ Healthcare
Positive Impact Health Centers
Get ready for an unforgettable night of laughter and impact at Positive Impact’s annual comedy show on November 1 and 2 at the Gas South Theatre in Duluth.
This year’s event promises a stellar lineup of incredible LGBTQ comedians, all coming together to support a vital cause: raising funds for HIV and LGBTQ healthcare and prevention in Atlanta.
The event will showcase phenomenal local talent, including the brilliant Kia Barnes, the inspiring Anthony Oakes, and the
outrageously funny Jes Tom. Tom, a trans, queer, Asian American performer, will be bringing a unique and unapologetic perspective that you won’t want to miss. Each night will also feature special guests: Taylor Alxndr on night one and Cici Nicole on night two!
“Your support through ticket purchases is crucial as we continue to expand our services for the Atlanta community,” Olivia Chelko, Director of Development and Communications, said in a statement. “We currently serve over 11,000 individuals, and with a goal to reach 15,000 in care by the end of 2026, your help will get us there.
Together, we can make a difference while enjoying a night of comedy.”
Proceeds from the comedy show will benefit Positive Impact Health Centers, a leader in HIV care and prevention in Atlanta. For 33 years, PIHC has provided comprehensive, client-centered care for individuals affected by HIV. With four centers located throughout the greater Atlanta area, they offer a wide range of services including HIV specialty medical
care, testing and counseling, prevention programming, pharmacy services, recovery and mental health programs, and prevention through PrEP and HIV testing.
“Every ticket purchased helps us in the fight against HIV and ensures that we can continue providing essential services to those in need,” Chelko.
To purchase your tickets, visit positiveimpacthealthcenters.org.
Positive Impact’s annual comedy show SCREENSHOT
As U.S. Politics Shift Right, the Lesser of Two Evils is on Full Display
The United States’ two-party representative democracy has always been a right-wing system, and this election it has transformed into its most dangerous form yet.
For decades, the Democrat versus Republican narrative has dominated every election cycle, allowing candidates on either side to engineer narratives about the other while largely ignoring necessary historical and global context.
By focusing Americans’ attention on two-party politics, mainstream political pundits have misled Americans into thinking that solutions to complex, global issues can only exist within this narrow capitalist framework, effectively shutting out all alternative viewpoints.
In this way, political figures have convinced the U.S. public that ideas commonly accepted around the globe are dangerous and highly contested.
Republicans have perfected this, casting doubt on climate science, engineering election conspiracies, and calling Democrats politically-charged terms like “ the radical left” and even “communists” for championing policies so commonplace and centrist they are even accepted in several right-wing circles, like common sense background checks for gun legislation.
Similarly, U.S. politicians — even Democrats — talk about universal healthcare as if it is a communist conspiracy while in reality, publicly-funded healthcare systems are so popular and successful that they exist in every other wealthy, developed nation.
Both Democrats and Republicans have also long gaslit the public into supporting U.S. involvement in various foreign conflicts, be it the unjustified invasions of Kuwait and
wins, has suggested complete police immunity, and using the military to go after political rivals — in other words, a literal fascist.
Indeed, the U.S. political system is so rightwing that both parties are flushed with the cash of corporate lobbyists, and the socalled “liberal” party is currently supporting genocide and dragging its feet on meaningful climate legislation. The American two-party system has always existed within this rightwing capitalist framework, prioritizing the profit of weapons manufacturers, fossil fuel giants, insurance companies, and corporate billionaires over the needs of the human race.
However, since the inception of Trumpism, this already right-wing framework has shifted so far right that it is flirting with fascism.
That brings us to the 2024 election:
The Republicans are running a convicted rapist who has repeatedly sewed doubt in elections, attempted an insurrection, called for a “bloodbath” and a national day of violence, has said people won’t have to vote again if he
This creates a political reality in which the Democrats could build a campaign around anyone from George Bush to a literal can of soup, based solely on the idea that their candidate isn’t a fumbling fascist felon.
Kamala Harris is no fascist, but she is a rightwing candidate.
Harris is bringing attention to the fact that Trump is dangerous, she supports restoring the protections of Roe v Wade, has a record of standing for LGBTQ rights, supports common sense background checks and an assault weapons ban, and has some economic policy ideas aimed at helping working people, like her proposal to provide up to $25,000 in support to first-time homebuyers. However, she supports Israel, she refuses to ban fracking, and she hasn’t discussed any meaningful, swift climate action as we face unprecedented heat and hurricanes. Her campaign has forgone
discussing refugees and paths to citizenship in favor of portraying immigrants as dangerous, a move straight out of the Republican playbook. Like all corporate Democrats, she also doesn’t support universal healthcare.
We need a candidate who isn’t afraid to enact a Green New Deal and ban oil drilling and single-use plastic. We need a candidate who is willing to discuss the failures of capitalism as billions of people live in poverty and the rich continue to climb their way to trillionaire status. We need a candidate who isn’t bought and paid for by Israel’s lobbyists to portray genocide as necessary self-defense. We deserve a candidate who will raise the minimum wage, who will cut the military budget, expand social services, and shift foreign policy focus from endless war to actual peace and diplomacy.
These candidates exist, but until we change our two-party system, they don’t have a chance of winning. The sad reality is that we will once again be forced to choose the lesser of two evils this November and hope like hell it's the Democrat and not the fascist.
Luke Gardner
Iraq or the unwavering support of Israel as it continues to massacre innocent civilians in Palestine and Lebanon.
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In the Battle for Equality, Voting Is Our Strongest Weapon
Rabbi Mike Rothbaum
As a rabbi and proud member of the LGBTQ community, I want to emphasize the critical importance of free and fair elections and urge my queer family to exercise their hardwon right to vote.
Our community stands at a perilous crossroads. Despite our hard-fought gains, a tidal wave of anti-LGBTQ legislation threatens to drown our progress. From draconian restrictions on gender-affirming care to insidious bans on LGBTQ discourse in schools, these laws are not just setbacks — they're attempts to erase us from the public sphere.
In the face of such challenges, our most potent tool for change is our vote. However, even this fundamental right is under attack. Voter suppression tactics and gerrymandered districts threaten to dilute our political power and silence our voices.
As people of faith, we proclaim that fair elections and equitable representation transcend politics — they are moral imperatives. They form the bedrock of communities where every individual's dignity is sacred and inviolable.
To my queer community: Embrace your civic duty with the fierce courage that has defined
us throughout history. Vote in every election as if your life depends on it — because it does.
To our allies: this is your fight too. Understand that every attack on voting rights is a direct assault on LGBTQ existence. Stand with us, unwavering and resolute.
Free and fair elections are the bedrock of our democracy and the shield that protects our hard-won rights. In the face of those who would deny us our place in society, we assert our power through the ballot box. Our votes are not just marks on a page — they are the indelible ink with which we write our community's future.
In the face of those who would silence us, let our ballots be our battle cry. Vote as if our future depends on it—because it does.
Rabbi Mike Rothbaum COURTESY PHOTO
CULTURE
A ‘Fun’ Farewell: An Interview with Cyndi Lauper
Cyndi Lauper is one of the best friends the LGBTQ community has ever had. Her multi-artist True Colors Tours, which ran from 2007–2010 and raised funds for the Matthew Shepard Foundation, PFLAG, and HRC, and the subsequent founding of True Colors United in 2008, which continues to help homeless LGBTQ youth, are just a few examples of her activism.
As we prepare to say farewell to Lauper on the concert tour circuit, she was generous enough to make time for an interview before bringing her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun farewell tour to Atlanta on November 10.
In preparing for this interview, in which we’re talking about your farewell tour, I pulled out my 12 ticket stubs from your concerts I’ve attended since 1984, beginning with two that year in Boston. Do you remember what that first headlining tour as a solo artist felt like for you?
I just wanted to make sure I had places to go. I wanted the sound to be really great. I don’t know if I accomplished that, but I did have those big speakers that I used to run up on. That’s me! I loved that. Because I saw all those wonderful English groups, the ska bands...
You mean Madness and The English Beat and The Specials?
The Specials! I thought they were extraordinary. The singer [Neville Staple], I don’t know where his family was from, I guess he could have been Jamaican English. He was so fierce, singing so great, and he climbed up on top of the speaker and put up his fist and he’s singing his guts out. I’m thinking, “It’s Mighty Mouse!” When I was a kid that was my favorite show, I don’t know why [laughs]. But it always influenced me, and I remember
in ’84, ’85 I was still free. When ’86 came then I became a prisoner of the system.
Being on a major record label, and all that. I wasn’t allowed to touch anybody. I wasn’t allowed to go out to them [in the audience] or have them come to me. It was totally different, and I totally hated it.
Did you ever imagine that 40 years later you
would be embarking on a farewell tour?
Well, at some point, sure. I think that for me this is the perfect time, because it’s a kind of bucket list of what I always wanted to do. In the beginning, it was roughneck style. Whatever I could jimmy-rig, I did. When I got to a certain point, like we were doing the (live) “Money Changes Everything” video. I had fantasies of a cherry-picker. Because of our budget, everyone said “Well, you can’t
get a cherry-picker, but we’ll give you a garbage pail and a pulley system.” I thought to myself, “Oh no, like Oscar the Grouch?” I had a friend who was a great interviewer, and she used to interview everybody from a garbage pail. So, of course, that’s what my people gave me to go up in the crowd. I thought it was a pulley system. The pulley system was actually 10 men with rope holding it. When I started to shake [while singing], I started to slip out of their hands. They brought me right in. That could have been the reason that the lawyer made me sign my will before I left.
Are you planning to sing songs from each of your albums?
I’m really trying. I didn’t get anything from the blues album [2010’s “Memphis Blues”] in there because there are too many songs. I usually get to the point where [I say], “Hey, guys, if the visuals look good for this, can we switch the songs?” What I did was I wanted to do visuals [on the tour]. I wanted to do performance art. That means you have to be on a click. Like when I went out on the [Rod] Stewart tour and we used the lyric video of “Sally’s Pigeons.” You can’t do that and not be on a click, because the guy running visual has to be on the click. If nobody’s together, it’s like, “Hey, what the hell now the words are there … no they’re not.”
It’s like a badly dubbed movie. Yeah. But this time I got this wonderful visual director, Brian Burke, who worked for years with the creative director of Cirque Du Soleil, and not having people flying through the air. In the beginning of all that, that was my fantasy! I wanted to fly through the air, and all I got was a cherry-picker — not a cherry-picker, but a garbage pail. It wasn’t
Gregg Shapiro
Cyndi Lauper COURTESY PHOTO BY RUVEN AFANADOR
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going to happen for me. Now, I’m 71! I’m not gonna go flying through the air.
It’s a mixture of collabs with artists and art, art and music. The whole thing is an artist collective, any time you go out on tour. It’s not just you. You’re with other dance artists if you're a dancer, or you’re with musicians. Or you’re with lighting designers, that’s art, too. We did these collabs, and I’m excited to present a show like this because it’s something I always wanted to do. Fingers crossed that it all works out. I’m even going to do costume changes this time, which you know I never do because it’s so bothersome. But I can do it in a way now that I’m comfortable with. I just want to be able to do this as a gift to all the people who followed me through all my crazy twists and turns. I did all those twists and turns because I kept hitting brick walls. You keep hitting the gatekeeper, you gotta find your way around that gatekeeper.
Earlier this year, “Let The Canary Sing,” Alison Ellwood’s documentary about you, received a theatrical release. After having your memoir published in 2012, did it feel to you like the documentary was the next logical step, a continuation of sorts? Well, not for me. I didn’t want to have a documentary. It was the pandemic, and everyone was saying, “Everybody’s doing documentaries now, Cyn! Come on, what are you doing?” I was like, “I’m not dead!” Then I started watching documentaries on the streaming services and I saw “Laurel Canyon.” I felt it was an extraordinarily captivating documentary for me because it was the history of music. All of the people and players in that story were very much influential for me as a growing artist, especially in the ’70s. I looked and saw who directed it…
Alison Ellwood!
When they came at me again, I said, “I want a film, not a TV special. So, how about Alison Ellwood? She makes films.” She wanted to do it! I think she did a good job. It’s not your typical story. I don’t think anybody’s story is typical. Right? We think we know people, but I guess we don’t. You think, “It’s typical! You
start a band.” Which is always my theory! If something’s wrong, start a band, start playing out, you’ll feel a lot better!” [Laughs] It doesn’t always go that way.
With the end of touring in sight, is there a possibility that you might do more film work for a potential Oscar to complete your EGOT status?
Listen, I happen to love independent films. For that, I would write. I wrote “Unhook The Stars” for...
...the Gena Rowlands movie. Right! Usually, I like an independent movie because then you get to talk to the director and then you have to understand what their vision is. That’s interesting, because each director is a different personality and a different kind of artist. You have to listen and see what story they’re trying to tell and then have a couple of different suggestions. When we first wrote “Who Let In the Rain,” I wrote it with Allee Willis…
Oh, the late Allee Willis. Allee Willis was a great songwriter.
Did you see that documentary? No. I wish I did, because I miss her so much. I guess I was talking to the director, and we didn't have a band, so I just sang, “They fall like rain,” and, in between, her dog, Orbit, would bark. I was like, “OK, the dog is musical,” and everyone laughed. Then, I described it to the director as “Chinese Motown.” That would scare most people. To me, I hear influences of every culture in American music. That's how I make my music: with different influences. Like cooking, like spices. I feel grateful that I was brought up in New York City, because I was exposed to so many different cultures.
On a final serious note, when I saw you perform in Boca Raton in 2016 in support of your “Detour” album, you asked for a moment of silence to honor Christina Grimmie, who had been shot and killed in Orlando the night before. The next morning, after your concert, many of us woke up to the news of the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. With those tragedies in mind, and this upcoming election, which is so terribly important, especially for
women and LGBTQ folks, is there anything you’d like to say to your fans?
Absolutely! There is an organization called Vote411.org. Taylor Swift recently finally put that up. You go online, and you find out all the questions and all the people that are running and what they voted for so that you can make an intelligent decision on who is going to represent you, not them. This war against women has been going on since the ’60s, it’s just been going and going, and we need to stop it because we are half the population. As far as the LGBTQ people, you have to vote. You have to be informed. Every time you have to vote, you vote! Don’t say, “Oh, it doesn’t matter for this one.” It matters! Because they put laws in there. There are community people that represent you and you need to start on a community level, a grassroots level to ensure that there are people that are going to speak for you as a human being. We are all human beings here.
As I said, women are half the population and LGBTQ, I venture to bet are a pretty large part, too. This country was founded on the separation of church and state. Separation! I don’t want anybody to have ownership over my body. They say they want local communities in charge but yet they have SCOTUS making federal laws about what you do in your bedroom and what you do with your body and who you are and nullifying families. Oh, I have a lot to say about that. You need to vote! You vote on every voting occasion. You can’t just lie down and get rolled over. This is our country, too. And always share your stories. Because people who work with you, that you’re friends with, sometimes they don't understand. They don’t know. What’s really interesting now, from when we started with True Colors United, I think that people do not understand gender identity, which is a whole different thing. If you want people to listen to you, you’ve got to listen to them. Just because they’re different from you, doesn’t mean that you have to be like them. You have to learn on both sides of the fence. Knock the fence down, because we’re all human beings; just everybody’s different, that’s all.
Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Wanna Have Fun farewell tour comes to State Farm Arena on November 10. For tickets, visit statefarmarena.com.
Cyndi Lauper COURTESY PHOTO BY RUVEN AFANADOR
Out Front Opens ‘Hairspray,’ Tegan Quin Talks About New Documentary ‘Fanatical’
Read the full column online at thegavoice.com.
Opening Out Front Theatre Company’s new season is the beloved Baltimore-set musical, “Hairspray,” in which teenager Tracy Turnblad aspires to be on “The Corny Collins Show” and sets out to integrate the show. The production is directed by Justin Kalin.
The goal with the show, Kalin says, was to stage something that was flat-out fun.
“When Paul [Conroy, Out Front’s founder and producing artistic director] and I were planning this season last year, looking at the calendar and seeing there’s a big election season and this cacophony of things happening, what was at the core of ‘Hairspray’ is a message that we think is prevalent and still important and it ends on a very hopeful note,” he told Georgia Voice. “It’s dressed up in such a way that the audience can experience a lot of joy. You can experience the kitsch of the 1960s, but leave feeling hopeful and not dejected. Getting to be part of an experience like that, particularly at a moment like this in the greater scope of the world, is a really exciting opportunity.”
Many familiar faces will be part of the show, including Blake Fountain, a fixture at drag productions at the company, as Edna Turnblad; Caty Bergmark, who directed 2023’s “The Prom,” playing Tracy Turnblad; Wynne Kelly, who starred in “The Prom,” as Amber Van Tussle; and Conroy himself plays Velma Von Tussle.
“It’s a blend of new faces and veteran ones,” Kalin said.
Directing Conroy has been a positive experience for Kalin.
“I was a little hesitant, because Paul is also my boss,” he said. “Working with that power dynamic is always a strange one, but I think Paul and I have a lot of mutual respect and trust from all the years of working together. We share a love of camp, a good joke and a gag. Anyone who has seen Paul’s work, especially ‘Ruthless’ and some of the Christmas shows we have done, a lot of his sensibilities are prevalent in the work that he does. [As an actor] he is willing to do anything you throw at him, from doing drag and learning how to do it, from planning the character voice to being unafraid to playing a heinous character.”
The material began as a 1988 John Waters film, then became a celebrated 2002 Tony Award-winning musical, before a second film version in 2007.
The documentary, “Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara” is now on Hulu. In it, Tegan Quin (half of the iconic lesbian band Tegan and Sara) details how she has been the victim of identity theft and a catfishing scam for over 15 years and the impact it’s had on her life.
The film marks the first time she has discussed it in public.
“Even within our circles it was such an overwhelming time and period in our career and life,” Quin told Georgia Voice. “On top of the fact that it was scary, and we were suspicious and paranoid about who might be listening in or reading our emails, it was a situation where it was such a crazy time in our lives and a story we never told.”
A tight-knit circle of managers and people Tegan and Sara were on the road with, as well as close friends, knew about the situation, as well as those who’d come in to work for the band.
In 2013, a few years after the situation started and after it had been established that someone had hacked into an old email account of Tegan’s and was operating it as her, she had to message everyone she’d ever met. Quin wrote a story called “Fake Tegan” and took it to music journalist Jenny Eliscu, later a producer on the film. Eliscu suggested they take it to eventual director Erin Lee Carr.
“Our original idea was to make it a podcast, but when Erin got involved, she said we should pitch it as a film,” Quin said. “I wasn’t resistant, because it was my idea, but through the making of the film, I was hyper-focused
on making sure we handled this with care. I didn’t want this to be a takedown of our audience; I didn’t want to ruin anyone’s life.”
The situation caused enormous apprehension and caution for Quin.
“I felt very much like this had happened to me in part because I had been overly friendly and nice, and that people had taken advantage of that,” she said. “In the years that followed other things happened, like the Pulse shooting in Florida, the Trump election, the wave of anti-LGBTQ legislation that created a lot more fear in us as public people.”
Quin estimates fans were most intense between 2007 and 2015, when breaches of privacy into their personal space were most prevalent.
“What we established is that it’s a gut feeling,” she said. “Sometimes people are just rude, and we have to say no to a selfie. But if you have basic common manners, I’d never say no.”
“Hairspray” runs through November 9 at Out Front Theater Company
“Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara” is now streaming on Hulu.
Jim Farmer
The cast of Out Front Theatre Company’s “Hairspray.” PUBLICITY PHOTO
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EVENT SPOTLIGHT
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NOVEMBER 1, 10PM
DISTRICT ATLANTA
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Myah Ross Monroe’s House of Love
October 25, 9pm
Atlanta Eagle $5 cover.
Getting Knotty: October Rope Practice
October 26, 1pm
Atlanta Eagle
Members of Atlanta’s Men in Rope, Hitchin’ Bitches, Rope Bite Atlanta, Atlanta Leather Pride, and Southeast Black and Blue host this quarterly rope
practice! This month, learn how to tie Moco’s Most Dynamic Hup Harness with Syylver! Register for $5 at givebutter.com/ gettingknottyoct24.
Atlanta Eagle Cabaret
October 26, 9pm
Atlanta Eagle
Starring Lena Lust, Shawnna Brooks, Misti Shores, Elea Atlanta, and Niesha Dupree! $5 cover.
