Inic gay bar Atlanta Eagle reopeng Midtown – WABE

Contents:

• INIC GAY BAR ATLANTA EAGLE REOPENG MIDTOWN
• ATLANTA GAY BARS
• MAN SHOT MULTIPLE TIM DURG FIGHT OUTSI ATLANTA GAY BAR, POLICE SAY

INIC GAY BAR ATLANTA EAGLE REOPENG MIDTOWN

Perhaps, more notorly, durg s n as the Atlanta Eagle—a gay leather bar om 1987 to 2020—the nightspot ma headl for a botched 2009 police raid, where members of the vice squad, lookg for illegal dg e and acts of public sex, yelled anti-gay slurs and handcuffed patrons and employe face down on the bar floor.

P’s and the Eagle are signifint, pecially as two inic gay-iendly bs serve up last ll—Este’s on Juniper Street shuttered after 30 years on June 1 wh s sister rtrant, Joe’s on Juniper, set to follow later this he helped to iate the savg of the Atlanta Eagle’s addrs, Charlie Pae, who grew up Atlanta’s Did Hills neighborhood and serv as the LGBTQ Historic Prervatn Advisory Commtee chair at Historic Atlanta, is also exced to see the rurrectn of Mrs.

”After a brief stt as the first home for after-hours night spot MJQ om 1994 to 1997, the fortun of the former gay bar the basement of the dilapidated Ponce Leon Hotel flounred, until eventually beme a board-up eyore on Ponce. ”Kg, who ed to drive past the space as a high schooler back when was MJQ, is pecially gnizant of what means to prerve one of the cy’s remag LGBTQ+ spac 2021, when Atlanta marks the 50th anniversary the cy’s first Pri march—a gay rights prott origally attend by participants sportg brown paper bags over their heads sce many feared beg fired for their sexual orientatn. P’s when he moved to Atlanta 1983, Clay Miller, now an admistrator of the 1, 761-member You’ve Lived Gay Atlanta a Long Time If You Remember… Facebook group, vividly rells a factoid he me across a book about that perd the cy’s history.

ATLANTA GAY BARS

But by the 1960s and 1970s, the space had been largely taken over by gay men and transformed to a leather-and-Levi’s bar that featured some of the cy’s first drag shows.

Longtime rints who are members of the You’ve Lived Gay Atlanta a Long Time If You Remember… group recently reflected on their nights sippg 25-cent drafts si the small basement bar wh the black pated walls, where trysts ocsnally occurred the darkened rners and inic drag performers such as Atlanta’s Diamond Lil were regulars.

MAN SHOT MULTIPLE TIM DURG FIGHT OUTSI ATLANTA GAY BAR, POLICE SAY

P’s skillfully navigated the cy’s strict ordanc and drs s, many put place to target gay bars and the drag performers who equented the tablishments.