If it’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day then that means it’s the Bayard Rustin/Audre Lorde Breakfast, the LGBT Atlanta tradition which celebrated its 17th annual event on Jan. 15 at the Loudermilk Conference Center. This year’s theme was “Love Letters Across the Generations: Honoring Our Elders,” and special remembrances were made in honor of Joan Garner, the Fulton County Commissioner who died of cancer last April, and Antron-Reshaud Olukayode, the poet, painter and self-described “artivist” who died last November. Trans activist and LaGender, Inc. CEO Dee Dee Chamblee was also honored with The Fellowship of Reconciliation USA Peace Award for Local Hero.

(Photos by Sher Pruitt)

A poster for the film “Big Hero 6.”
Westminster School Head Coach Gerry Romberg
Marist Varsity Head Coach Alan Chadwick.
Jewish Family & Career Services President John Perlman and CEO Rick Aranson in the current Giving garden. The nonprofit plans to move the garden and erect an 8,000-square-foot “Tools for Independence Building” in 2016.
Plans for renovating and expanding the Jewish Family & Career Services campus in Dunwoody.
From left, swimmers Fran Romanchuck, Tommy McNeese, Jeff Frame, Wade Whittle, Laura Medrado and John Stanforth.
Ashton Woods opponents, wearing red as a symbolic protest to the city’s plans, crowd the meeting.
More than 2,400 apartments are approved or under construction at various sites along the Roswell Road corridor in Sandy Springs.
Construction on One City Walk, located at the corner of Roswell Road and Hammond Drive in Sandy Springs, is underway. The mixed-use project will consist of 202 units as well as street-front retail space.
Mixed-use development is slated for the east side of the 6000 block of Roswell Road.
Kissy Dabbs, center, with daughters Liza Twari, 9, left, and Clara Twari, 10, generated the idea for the Mini Libraries by starting a neighborhood library in the basement of their Sandy Springs home.
An illustration of the apartments planned at Johnson Ferry Road and Old Johnson Ferry Road on Pill Hill, on the Brookhaven-Sandy Springs border.
An illustration of the Falcons stadium under construction in Atlanta.