FLORENCE — The line dancers started slowly. Stumbling through the first steps. One, then the next. Cindy Dowdy demonstrated from the carpeted stage of the veterans' hall, surrounded by four-day-old ...

One recent Wednesday night in Atlanta, dozens of people gathered in a studio space armed with water bottles, hand fans, towels and an expectation to be in sync. There were hugs among the regulars ...

There's a safe space in Alpharetta, Georgia, for LGBTQ line dancers. Phillis Welden travels an hour and a half to be there. Welden, a 73-year-old straight ally from Winder, Georgia, puts in 200 miles ...