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Contents:

• MIDTOWN ATLANTA GAY MEN
• GAY MAN FOUND BARELY ALIVE ON ATLANTA TRA TRACKS
• MOVE- READY: HERE ARE 6 OF ATLANTA'S BT GAY-IENDLY NEIGHBORHOODS
• THE 5 BEST ATLANTA GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS ATLANTA
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS ATLANTA
• LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS ATLANTA, GA

MIDTOWN ATLANTA GAY MEN

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This neighborhood is an easy bike ri to the many gay or gay-iendly bars that le the streets of Midtown like Joe's on Juniper and Este's — and an even easier trek to Piedmont Park for piics or to meet new iends at Piedmont's dog park. 1918: Eight s after her ath, Dorothy Vogel’s dghter expos her mother as an Atlantan lbian a tell-all, reuntg her mother’s relatnships wh women a seri of photographs — photographs that would have damned her mother the anti-homosexual turn-of-the-century. He was the edor of Southern Voice, a gay newsweekly based Atlanta, for five years, edor of LGBT newspaper Hoton Voice for two years, and was also a reporter for newspapers metro Atlanta and South Carola.

He breath new life to Jewish tradn, and his adventuro spir has propelled him to found new programs like the Rabow Center, a Jewish munal rponse to gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people.

GAY MAN FOUND BARELY ALIVE ON ATLANTA TRA TRACKS

Savannah’s first openly gay cy uncil member, Kurtis Purtee was recently named to Savannah’s PROUD task force, a group dited to ensurg the cy’s lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer muni n work and live a welg and safe environment.

Through a diverse mix of ntent nsistg of pop culture, lol terts, and event verage, Peach ATL has been the premier weekly gay publitn for the metro Atlanta market for more than two s. Larry Stt-Walker is the executive director and -founr of THRIVE SS: Transformg HIV Rentments to Victori Everlastg Support Servic, a 501c3 nonprof anizatn wh a missn of improvg health equy for Black gay men livg wh HIV through direct support, advocy, and buildg llective power. Michael Shutt is the Southern Regnal Director for Lambda Legal, the olst and largt natnal legal anizatn whose missn is to achieve full regnn of the civil rights of lbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgenr people and everyone livg wh HIV through impact ligatn, tn and public policy work.

MOVE- READY: HERE ARE 6 OF ATLANTA'S BT GAY-IENDLY NEIGHBORHOODS

Rickie Smh is print of In The Life Atlanta Foundatn, which serv as the official anizer of Atlanta Black Gay Pri, now the world largt pri celebratn for Ain Amerin lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people. The anizatn’s missn is to promote uny, pri, self-empowerment, and posive visibily wh Atlanta’s Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr muny of Ain scent through tn, advocy, and aln buildg programs.

THE 5 BEST ATLANTA GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS ATLANTA

Charl Stephens is the Executive Director of the Counter Narrative Project (CNP), wh over 10 years experience velopg novative muny engagement iativ, pilotg programs, and mobilizg black gay men. He has worked wh such anizatns as AIDS Uned, AID Atlanta, and the Kaiser Fay Foundatn as a nsultant, providg strategic guidance and thought-partnership around program velopment and policy advocy wh black gay and bisexual men.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS ATLANTA

Sce 1994, OUT Geia Bs Alliance (formerly the Atlanta Gay & Lbian Chamber of Commerce) has served the LGBTQ+ and Allied bs muny by advotg for the most clive and equable bs environment; providg support and rourc to fuel enomic growth; and drivg meangful muny nnectns and impact across the State of Geia. “I thk what mak this cy special for black gay men is that here they have a certa gree of eedom and self-exprsn rivalg any metropolan cy the Uned Stat (and the rt of the world for that matter). ” Obna shar his terview, “I remember when I vised my tw brother for the first time after he moved out to Atlanta 2015, and he troduced me to a small group of Nigerian gay men that he met via Tr.

Swgg Richards, which opened 1996 on Northsi Drive, was one of the few remag strip clubs the untry that tered to gay men, and the first club Atlanta to allow full-ontal male nudy. Swgg Richards’ 26-year life has cid wh a sea change LGBTQ rights: In 2003, the Supreme Court stck down antisodomy laws; Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell fell 2011; and 2015, the Supreme Court extend the right to marry to same-sex the s, Swgg Richards has been much more than a n of bchery, says Cameron Belle, the club’s social media director: It was “a pillar of the LGBTQ+ muny om s onset, ” hostg benefs for anizatns like Atlanta Pri and the Atlanta Gay Men’s Chos. Ctomers gather on the si, dollar bills clasped their fists, wag to stuff them to the dancers’ armbands, or more adventuro club is both a place for gay men and a “place for people who are still the closet to be who they are, ” Howie says.

LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS ATLANTA, GA

** Febary – Approximately one hundred lol activists, origally anized by members of The Great Speckled Bird (published om 1968 to1978) form a Geia chapter of the Gay Liberatn Front. They prented him wh a list of mands—that he end police harassment of homosexuals, that he end all job discrimatn agast homosexuals, and that he pledge to help end social discrimatn agast homosexuals Atlanta.