Jon Ossoff, left and Raphael Warnock, right 2 runoffs in Georgua could determine who controls the upper house of Congress Lisa Keen | Keen News Servicelisakeen@mac.com Georgia has very quickly become ground zero in the battle to protect LGBTQ equality and to, once again, stave off attempts to undermine American democracy. “Jan.
5 is now a critically, critically, critically important date,” said Fred Smith, a Georgia activist and member of Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’ LGBTQ Advisory Board.
He was speaking with other Georgia LGBTQ leaders to Project Q Atlanta, an LGBTQ news website, just days after the Nov. 3 presidential election and key Senate races around the country.