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BULLDOGS: ATLANTA’S LTLE GAY BAR THAT ULD
In Atlanta the days, ’s fairly easy to fd a gay bar that has some sort of drag show or petn at least once a week. Type: Gay Bar.
Gay nightclubs sprg up, like the Cove Morngsi and the Armory Midtown, as well as drag bars like Hollywood Hots on Chhire Bridge and Mrs. He gets help when Blake’s, the gay Cheers, opens.
Two patrons at BulldogsPhotograph by Rs Bowen-YoungbloodJt one story tall and tucked between 7th and 8th streets on Peachtree, a ty gay bar has built a reputatn that towers over many of the skyscrapers that surround . Although Bulldogs is known for a mature crowd, beme Thompson’s favore bar, and he nsirs a guipost for Black gay Atlanta, lkg generatns throughout s of dynamic change—although served a predomantly whe clientele until the late 1980s.
LEGENDARY GAY BAR ATLANTA EAGLE IS REOPENG MIDTOWN
“I thk we would kd of be lost when to nightlife whout Bulldogs, ” Thompson says of the bar that has been the only nstant a Black gay party scene which often feels transnal, wh promoters rentg venu across the cy rather than hostg at a nsistent lotn. On weekends offers a broar reprentatn of Black gay men than media picts.
From young men drsed for the nway and others buff enough to be a UGA nng back to olr profsnals who look like they jt left the boardroom, the regulars at Bulldogs provi a snapshot of why Atlanta is nsired a Black gay a few years of Cochran startg to work as a doorman at Bulldogs 1998, high-rise buildgs were replacg gay bars and no-tell motels Midtown, and the stud apartments and triplex that attracted young queer people for s were beg phased out for sgle-fay hog and ndos. Bulldogs has outlasted other legendary gay clubs like Backstreet and the Armory, and has stood s ground amid persistent threats om new neighbors and velopers. After closg two years ago, one of Atlanta’s olst and most legendary gay and leather bars is reopeng Midtown, and right before Pri next month.