![Action Cycling raises $175,000 to benefit vaccine research]()
By Project Q Atlanta | Aug 3, 2009 | 5:00 PM
When organizers of
Action Cycling 200 set a goal, they tend to surpass it with the ease of Lance Armstrong zipping along a flat stretch of terrain.
Even in the midst of an economic recession, participants in the annual cycling event raised $175,000 for the
Emory Vaccine Center, an amount nearly 65 percent higher than last year's total. Riders and event organizers gathered July 26 for a closing party and to present the check to the vaccine center, which develops vaccines for HIV and other infectious diseases.
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![Georgia Equality chair Allen Thornell dies]()
By Project Q Atlanta | Aug 3, 2009 | 4:24 PM
Allen Thornell, a longtime LGBT activist, political insider and chair of Georgia Equality's board, died Monday morning.
Friends say Thornell was taken to Atlanta Medical Center Sunday evening after suffering an apparent stroke. A hospital spokesperson confirmed Thornell died Monday morning.
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![Monday: 16 gay things to do today]()
By Project Q Atlanta | Aug 3, 2009 | 3:00 PM
• The Hotlanta Squares
hosts an Open House. 7 p.m.
• The Atlanta Harlequins women's rugby team holds its
first practice, which is open to players with no experience. 7:30 p.m.
• Bubba D. Licious (photo)
headlines Dragamaki at Nickiemoto's. 8:30 p.m.
• Bare that chest during Bear Chest Night at the Eagle. 10 p.m.
• Alexandria Martin
hosts Drag on the Edge at Blake's. 11 p.m.
View the full list of gay things to do today on Project Q Atlanta's interactive community calendar. You can also submit your events. READ MORE »
![Monday: Scoring a win in the water]()
By Project Q Atlanta | Aug 3, 2009 | 2:00 PM
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![Sunday: 13 gay things to do today]()
By Project Q Atlanta | Aug 2, 2009 | 1:00 PM
• Papi's New Brunch
serves up tasty food and drinks with music. 11 a.m.
• Pins for PALS
fundraiser at Midtown Bowl. 1 p.m.
• Sol Sundays goes
poolside at W Atlanta-Midtown. 1 p.m.
• DJ Jay McCracken (photo)
opens the new Einstein's Cocktail Hour. 3 p.m.
• The Armorettes
perform at Burkhart's at their new start time. 6 p.m.
• Come Out and Play with the Atlanta Freedom Bands. 6 p.m.
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![Pinch those pennies with Project Q coupon]()
By Project Q Atlanta | Jul 31, 2009 | 11:00 PM
Pinching pennies has never been more in vogue than now, the middle of a deep recession. This weekend is designed to do just that.
Through Sunday at midnight, there's a sales tax holiday in Georgia that includes clothing, school supplies and computers. That means you get the swag at an 8 percent discount. Combine that with a
coupon just for Project Q Atlanta readers from
Brushstrokes and you can really clean up this weekend.
The coupon brings discounts of 35 percent on posters and prints, 25 percent on picture frames and 20 percent on coffee mugs. You'll pay sales tax on these items, but clothes and supplies such as notepads, notebooks and journals do come tax free. So combine the two for nearly guilt-free shopping. The store's Sidewalk Sale on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. makes the experience even easier. (Print the coupon
here.)
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![Pucker up protest adds Athens event]()
By Project Q Atlanta | Jul 31, 2009 | 10:00 PM
With the gays in Atlanta
preparing to pucker up for the
Great Nationwide Kiss-In, our queer neighbors in Athens didn't want to be left out.
So they've announced their own event to coincide with those happening across the U.S. on Aug. 15. They'll lock lips at 1 p.m. in College Square, according to a Facebook
event invitation sent Friday.
The
Atlanta event is set for 2 p.m. at the Piedmont Park visitor center. The nationwide effort, launched by two bloggers in the Northeast, is a cyberoots protest over the arrest earlier this month of a gay couple nabbed for kissing in Salt Lake City.
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![Exercises to build your bootylicious factor]()
By Contributing Blogger | Jul 31, 2009 | 9:00 PM
Contributing blogger Troy Meyers is a certified personal trainer and sports conditioner with more than 10 years of experience. He owns Atlanta-based JockBoyLocker.com and contributes to the site’s Lockerroom Blog.
We’re all blessed with different body types. So some may think of their butt as a blessing, while others would argue it’s a curse. But let's work with what you’ve got and turn your butt into your sexiest and most beloved body part.
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![One less place for dancing queens in Athens]()
By Project Q Atlanta | Jul 31, 2009 | 7:00 PM
It seems the dancing queens in Athens don't get their jig on nearly enough for one club owner in the heart of Bulldog Nation.
Blur, the dance club located at Hull and Dougherty streets in downtown Athens,
closed last weekend to rebrand itself away from the gays, drag shows and dance parties and more to the liking of music hall fans. That's from owner Mark Bell, who also was on hand to close Boneshakers, one of the city's first gay clubs.
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![Faggot dance, gay tag, set-aside, No Excuses]()
By Project Q Atlanta | Jul 31, 2009 | 4:30 PM
• Hawaii football coach Greg McMackin (photo)
apologizes for gay slur.
• Maine gay marriage opponents
submit challenges.
• House subcommittee
backs extension of benefits to gay partners of government employees.
• Washington State
reviewing signatures on anti-gay rights petition.
• Kay Bailey Hutchison website had
"gay" tag on Rick Perry.
• Gay activists: Marriage
secondary to basic rights.
• Harvey Milk, Billie Jean King among Medal of Freedom
winners.
• Chicago Mayor Richard Daley open to
set-asides for gay-owned companies.
• HRC
launches campaign encouraging LGBT people to visit their members of Congress during August recess.
• Portugal's high court
keeps gay marriage ban.
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![Friday: 15 gay things to do today]()
By Project Q Atlanta | Jul 31, 2009 | 3:30 PM
• Downtown Atlanta Restaurant Week
continues with its 3-course specials at more than dozen venues..
• Lesbian duo Halcyon (photo)
performs at Bellissima. 9 p.m.
• DJ Chris Griswold
spins at Mixx. 10 p.m.
• Raw Talent III
starts at My Sisters Room. 10 p.m.
• Drag Legend Diamond Lil
performs at Red Light Cafe. 10 p.m.
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![Friday: Spa fever for the weekend]()
By Project Q Atlanta | Jul 31, 2009 | 1:30 PM
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![Gay group to host wedding reception at UGA]()
By Project Q Atlanta | Jul 30, 2009 | 10:30 PM
Those queer Bulldogs in Athens are staying quite busy this summer.
On Friday, the group Equal Love Allies hosts a joint wedding reception for a lesbian couple and a heterosexual couple under the Arch on the University of Georgia campus. An organizer of the group, Jonas Hopkins, offered some details to
Gay in Athens:
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![Sykes cancels for tonight; Tee still on]()
By Project Q Atlanta | Jul 30, 2009 | 9:15 PM
If you want to see a lesbian comic tonight, your options just got trimmed to one: Wanda Sykes (photo) has canceled, citing food poisoning.
That leaves Amy Tee, who
performs at Bellissima at 9 p.m.
Sykes, scheduled for four performances Thursday and Friday at Uptown Comedy Club, is
apparently ill and unable to make the trip to Atlanta.
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![The big dreams of 3Minds]()
By Contributing Blogger | Jul 30, 2009 | 8:30 PM
Alix B. Golden started her life as a Carolina Girl, but matured into a Georgia Peach. This freelancer dishes on sex, relationships and dating often revealing more than she should about her own life. Read more from her at A Brown Girl.
My first encounter with
3Minds was on Twitter. There were inquiries made about my style of writing, she mentioned hosting a poetry slam. Someone else chimed in that a 3Minds event was truly something to be witnessed.
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![Dream ‘Goes Green’ for its game tonight]()
By Project Q Atlanta | Jul 30, 2009 | 5:30 PM
The
Atlanta Dream, with its 8-10 record already doubling their entire win total from last season, offers some added incentives to lure you into tonight's game against Phoenix.
In keeping with the recession and the public's fascination with all things "green," the Dream offers this: The first 3,000 fans moving through the turnstiles receive a "Go Green" water bottle courtesy of MARTA.
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![ALHI’s Health Fair to Go proves succesful]()
By Project Q Atlanta | Jul 30, 2009 | 4:30 PM
The crowd of people milling about the DeKalb Avenue offices of the
Atlanta Lesbian Health Initiative on Saturday was a hint that the non-profit was on to something with its Health Fair to Go.
It turned out that the partnership between ALHI, Piedmont Hospital and several service providers proved popular. During the four-hour event, hospital staff conducted 75 health screenings and 18 clinical breast exams, while the DeKalb County Board of Health completed 27 HIV tests. And all of that was free to the people being pricked, prodded and screened.
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When organizers of Action Cycling 200 set a goal, they tend to surpass it with the ease of Lance Armstrong zipping along a flat stretch of terrain. 
