Atlanta has one of the largt gay populatns the untry and sred full marks an LGBTQ rights x, but thgs are far om perfect
Contents:
- 50 YEARS AGO, ATLANTA’S GAY RIGHTS PH TOOK TO STREET FOR FIRST TIME
- SUPREME COURT’S GAY RIGHTS LG ECHO LONG-NNG GEIA BATE
- ATLANTA LBIAN AND GAY HISTORY THG PAPERS AND PUBLITNS
- MOVG TO LGBT ATLANTA, GEIA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
50 YEARS AGO, ATLANTA’S GAY RIGHTS PH TOOK TO STREET FOR FIRST TIME
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Atlanta’s first gay pri march, on the bright Sunday afternoon of June 27, 1971, was virtually unregnizable om the 300, 000-person, multi-day celebratn has bee recent the Geia Gay Liberatn Front anized that first monstratn 50 years ago, there were no floats or cheerg spectators, no major rporate sponsors or ravans of panrg the cy that had jt birthed the civil rights movement, LGBTQ rights was nsired a radil issue that the polil tablishment, cludg many Atlanta progrsiv, wanted to stay away om.
SUPREME COURT’S GAY RIGHTS LG ECHO LONG-NNG GEIA BATE
At that time, gay sex was still illegal unr state law, and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn characterized homosexualy as a mental would take s for attus and laws to change. 5, was six weeks after ps had raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay hangout Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, galvanizg the fight for LGBTQ liberatn. ” The wtern satire, which featured gay sex scen, had bee an immediate target of lol law enforcement who believed vlated obsceny laws.
ATLANTA LBIAN AND GAY HISTORY THG PAPERS AND PUBLITNS
ExplorePhotos: Atlanta's Gay Pri march through the yearsRoughly 15 mut to the film, the lights flipped as police burst to the theater and locked the doors behd them. “They were arrtg a lot of gay men, jt arrtg them on anythg they uld fd. ” But for many the te tent was enforcement had long targeted the cy’s LGBTQ populatn, particularly gay men, hangout spots like Piedmont Park and along what was known as “the strip” on Peachtree Street.
MOVG TO LGBT ATLANTA, GEIA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
In 1953, police ed a two-way mirror before arrtg 20 men for havg sex the basement toilets of one of Atlanta’s public that time, many gay Atlantans were closeted, even enterg heterosexual marriag, fearful they uld lose their jobs and be shunned by their fai if they were found out. ExploreTimele: Major moments Atlanta LGBTQ historyBy the 1960s, a handful of bars began sprgg up near Midtown that quietly tered to gay clientele.