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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. Read our transparency report to learn 2018 • SoloFrom the special events like bear weekend, to the DJ and bar tenrs, this is the place to dance, mgle and have fun on a weekend night Atlanta if you are a gay man. 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.

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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. 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.

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While Midtown power gays b shoulrs wh east Atlanta queers on by nights, young kksters their first harns flirt wh old-school leathermen and Atlanta Eagle is equally tentnal about cludg people of varied ag, body typ, and racial inti. In 2009, ps raid the bar, forced patrons to the floor, handcuffed them, and lled them homophobic slurs.

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After he moved to Atlanta six years ago, he said the bar was formative to his g-of-age as a gay man.

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“I’m really exced to be more a part of the gayborhood over here wh Ansley Square and Ansley Mall, ” Ramey said. Succsfully fdg a gay club an unfaiar cy n be tryg.

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An old-school landmark amongst gay bars, this Atlanta hot spot is still one of the most beloved plac to party Midtown.

One of the most unpretent gay clubs Atlanta, the Eagle, a nontradnal leather bar, has been drawg wonrfully diverse and amible crowds for s.

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A lotn near Piedmont Park, floor-to-ceilg wdows lookg out on 10th Street, and a iendly, sual vibe distguish this neighborhood bar, whose clientele is largely gay.

But leather has always been apart of gay atlanta culture. COVID Won’t Stop Atlanta’s Most Inic Leather Bar From Queerg The South –, Dec 21, 2020Inic Atlanta Eagle gay bar to get historic landmark signatn om cy – Atlanta Journal Consutn, Dec 21, 2020Inic LGBTQ bar Atlanta Eagle uld soon be historic landmark, Atlanta Bs Chronicle, Dec 18, 2020Ashby Street Theatre, Atlanta Eagle on Geia Tst’s ‘Plac Peril’ list – SaportaReport, Nov 11, 2020Small Bs Big Missn – Atlanta Bs Chronicle, May 28, 2020.

Over the next months, the owners of the Texas Drillg Co., a gay bar terg to the LGBTQ muny’s Levi/leather subculture, Virgia Highland, worked to obta liquor licens and open Renegas Saloon & Cafe.

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Renegas beme the first tly gay bar to occupy space at 306 Ponce October of 1987. The Augt 28, 1988 openg of the Atlanta Eagle marked Atlanta’s place the fay of penntly owned gay bars that operate unr the “Eagle” name.

The Cy of Atlanta is signatg gay bar Atlanta Eagle as a historic landmark, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms annouced earlier this mak the Atlanta Eagle the first regnized and protected LGBTQ+ landmark the Deep South, a Historic Atlanta reprentative told the lol channel WXIA-TV.

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Opened 1983, the Phoenix ntu to proudly serve the New Orleans neighborhood and Gay Leather/Levi muny. San Francis’s Gay Heart! If ’s a big gay party ’s here.

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Atlanta’s most famo gay bar has seen all, and this month the Atlanta Eagle is reachg a new tone: 30 years servg Atlanta’s LGBT muny – or, more specifilly the leather and fetish muny. The dark, stuc buildg at 306 Ponce Leon Avenue first hoed Renega’s, a gay untry bar opened by the Eagle’s first owner, Jay Evans, that lasted ls than six months.

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” 2009 raid, a look to future Thirty years bs is almost unheard of for a gay bar Atlanta, and some ways the Eagle has seen enough ups and downs for twice that time perd. 8Audience RatgBased on 6 votPremier gay leather & jeans bar.

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