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• LARGE CROWD ATTENDS FIRST ATLANTA GAY PRI PARA TWO YEARS
• ATLANTA GAY NEWS
• GAY ATLANTA
• ATLANTA GAY PRI FTIVAL, INIC GAY BAR RETURN POST-COVID
• 5 PEOPLE SHOT NEAR ATLANTA NIGHTCLUB HOSTG BLACK GAY PRI EVENT

LARGE CROWD ATTENDS FIRST ATLANTA GAY PRI PARA TWO YEARS

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ATLANTA - The streets of Midtown Atlanta were packed Sunday morng as thoands me out to celebrate Atlanta Gay Pri. June 27, 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of Atlanta’s first gay pri march. Here’s a look back at some key moments that shaped the cy’s LGBTQ muny over the last five 1969 – Atlanta police raid the Ansley Mall Mi Cema Midtown durg a showg of Andy Warhol’s “Lonome Cowboys, ” a wtern satire that featur gay sex scen.

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” The raid, together wh New York Cy’s Stonewall rts six weeks earlier, is the talyst for Atlanta’s gay rights 1971 – More than 100 activists assemble Midtown for Atlanta’s first gay pri march to mark the two-year anniversary of Stonewall.

Led by members of the Geia Gay Liberatn Front, which formed rponse to the Ansley raid and other police harassment, participants ph for an end to sodomy laws and discrimatn the workplace, hog and other 1972 – A group of lbian activists form the Atlanta Lbian Femist Alliance, a group that would bee a powerful force the cy’s LGBTQ muny for 1976 – Mayor Maynard Jackson issu Atlanta’s first “Gay Pri Day” proclamatn. ”June 1978 – An appearance by Ana Bryant, the sger and activist who opposed gay rights, at the Southern Baptist Conventn attracts several thoand protters to Atlanta’s World Congrs Center and revigorat the cy’s LGBTQ liberatn movement. Explore50 years ago, Atlanta’s gay rights ph took to street for first time1982- AID Atlanta, an agency that provis HIV/AIDS-related servic and tn, opens.

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Supreme Court l that Geia’s sodomy law is nstutnal as relat to gay upl. In his ncurrg opn, then-Chief Jtice Warren Burger wrote that “to hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to st asi lennia of moral teachg.

”Cred: The Atlanta Journal-ConstutnCred: The Atlanta Journal-ConstutnAugt 1993 – Cobb County adopts a rolutn llg homosexualy “patible wh the standards to which this muny subscrib. ” The move was part a reactn to the stagg of the play “Lips Together, Teeth Apart, ” which has gay referenc, Marietta Square. Ls than a year later, unr prsure om gay rights advot, the Atlanta Commtee for the Olympic Gam announced was pullg volleyball gam out of Cobb County rponse to the 1996 – A gatherg of Black LGBTQ iends Piedmont Park sparks what eventually be Atlanta Black Pri, an annual Labor Day weekend ftival that now draws upwards of 10, 000 people to the cy for arts, cultural and tnal events.

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ExploreFlashback Photos: Atlanta's Gay Pri march through the yearsNovember 1998 – Geia’s Supreme Court strik down the state’s 165-year-old sodomy law.

The actn me the same year that Massachetts beme the first state the untry to legalize gay marriage. September 2009 – Two dozen Atlanta police officers raid the Midtown gay bar the Atlanta Eagle, orrg ctomers to the floor while g anti-gay slurs. 2014 – Activists lnch Southern Fried Queer Pri, which foc on empowerg queer and trans people of lor through the 2015 – Gay marriage is legalized for the first time Geia after the Supreme Court l that the Constutn’s equal protectn and due procs cls protect same-sex 2016 – Then-Gov.

” Gay rights and bs groups loudly opposed the measure, which they said was discrimatory. ExploreDrag, dgs and dis: When Atlanta was a center of the gay revolutnJune 2020 – The Supreme Court, a 6-3 cisn, l that employers nnot fire LGBTQ workers bee of their sexual orientatn or genr inty. Drenner was the first openly-gay lawmaker the state when she took office 2001.