A new book tails Atlanta's gay g of age the 1970s, when Atlanta beme a mag for gay and lbian transplants om elsewhere the South.
Contents:
- THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
- DRAG, DGS AND DIS: WHEN ATLANTA WAS A CENTER OF THE GAY REVOLUTN
THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
Pri serv more than a month. The gay songs – om dis hs to club classics – are perfect for Pri year-round. * drag gay disco *
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Valento, ‘I Was Born This Way’ (1975)The first rerd to feature lyrics about beg an out-and-proud gay man me om the mil performer Charl “Valento” Harris, who released “I Was Born This Way” as an apparently one-off release on Gaiee. “I’m happy, I’m reee and I’m gay, ” the sger hollers over soulful stmentatn. ” “The lyrics were perfect, ” she told me Summer, ‘I Feel Love’ (1977)Gay male dance crowds were drawn to rerdgs that featured Black female volists, often intifyg wh their emotnal exprsivens and strength the face of adversy, often to the surprise of the artists, who were ually gospel-traed.
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DRAG, DGS AND DIS: WHEN ATLANTA WAS A CENTER OF THE GAY REVOLUTN
* drag gay disco *
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. To many, the stereotypil image of a drag queen is one of a gay man drsed exaggerated feme getup, oversized wigs and heavy makp. Its performers are gay and straight.
The term “homosexualy” me to greater circulatn the ’30s, Jefeys said, as did “pansy acts” – hyper-feme queens whose rout clud nuendos about same-sex sire. Police regularly raid gay bars the US – until the late ‘60s, Jefeys said, was illegal for bars New York to serve a drk to a “known homosexual.