About The Pink Peach
Founded in 2014 as a blog for the LGBT community in West, Middle and South Georgia, The Pink Peach now hopes to talk about progressive news, events, ideas, concerns and voices across Georgia, including news of interest to the local LGBT community.
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Harry Underwood, Editor/Publisher
Harry is the founder, editor and publisher of The Pink Peach.
They are an alum of Middle Georgia State College, from which they graduated in 2013 with a B.S. in New Media and Communications; they worked as Online Editor of The Macon Statement from 2009-2012.
Born in California in 1987, Harry has lived most of their life in Georgia since 1993. A Mac OS X and Ubuntu user, he supports open-source software, Creative Commons licensing, and open content wherever it appears.
Meet Harry
I have a love-hate relationship with the state of Georgia. Numerous times, I have expressed how I want to leave this state for greener, less politically-humiliating pastures, and yet I have remained here as a resident since 1993 when I was six years old. I lived in Warner Robins until 2013, and currently live in Columbus.
Throughout my lifetime, I have met numerous Georgia residents who have done so much work to make our fellow residents’ lives better, whether here in Columbus, or in so many other cities across the state. So many have also done this work since before I was born, and several have left this life with legacies which deserve the sort of elevation that they were denied in life. This blog is my attempt to elevate not only what is happening in this state (and country!), and also how the history of Georgia deeply affects the mentalities of those who hold power here at whatever level of government, but also the progressive moves which can open doors for my fellow Georgians after living under authoritarian, ruralist white supremacy.
I write first and foremost for my neighbors across Georgia, from Columbus to Warner Robins to Augusta to Atlanta. I may also write about politics in other states (and even other countries), but my first concern is Georgia.
I also have, with pay, consulted, designed websites, or organized for several candidates for office, including Sylvia Hudson for Clerk of Municipal Court (Columbus, GA 2016), Jim Barksdale for U.S. Senate (2016), Valerie Haskins for State Senate District 29 (2018) and Mark Jones for Chattahoochee Circuit District Attorney (2020), among others. I have volunteered as Secretary of the Young Democrats of Georgia (2020-2021), and currently as Secretary of the Democratic Party of Georgia African American Caucus and Fourth Vice Chair of the DPG Greening Georgia Environmental Caucus. Outside of partisan interests, I am a board member of Better Ballot Georgia, which advocates for ranked-choice/instant-runoff voting.
I am a strong Democratic voter, and my bias is toward liberal-progressive-social democratic viewpoints. I am also Black, gay, atheist and a survivor of COVID-19. What I post on this website will reflect my experiences and biases.
Whenever possible, I will back up what I write with quotes and links. I encourage readers and commenters to do the same.
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