Reporting from Atlanta – A neck-and-neck mayoral runoff pitting a black man against a white woman has spurred some intense discussions about race and politics in the South’s most important city. But in recent days, the two campaigns have also turned their attention to a demographic beyond race that may ultimately sway Tuesday’s election: the gay vote. The support of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, or LGBT, community has been a coveted political prize for some time in Atlanta, a bastion of live-and-let-live progressivism in the heart of the more censorious Bible Belt.

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