Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms campaigned as a supporter of Atlanta’s LGBTQ community. In answer to that, she formed the city’s first LGBTQ advisory board. They held their first official meeting Friday morning at City Hall.
The group plans to take on big issues, like homelessness and the HIV epidemic. To do that, it has structured itself into focused committees: health, youth, transgender issues, arts, entertainment and culture and economic and community development.
“The Mayor could have come in and said we’ve done enough, we’re already there,” said Pam Stewart, the board’s co-chair. “She didn’t do that. She said we still have work to do, we want to take it from great to exceptional and not just rest at great.” Stewart promised this would be a board that gets things done and will have progress to show for its quarterly meetings.
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