Atlanta needs s gay bars now more than ever - Atlanta Magaze

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• MOVE- READY: HERE ARE 6 OF ATLANTA'S BT GAY-IENDLY NEIGHBORHOODS
• ATLANTA NEEDS S GAY BARS NOW MORE THAN EVER
• MOVG TO LGBT ATLANTA, GEIA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• MIDTOWN - GAY DISTRICT ? - ATLANTA FOM
• AMERI'S FAVORE GAY BARKNOWN FOR OUR HIP AND FUN VIBE, VIS AND YOU’LL MEET NEW PEOPLE YOU WON’T FD OTHER PLAC. WE HAVE WEEKLY AND MONTHLY SPECIAL EVENTS, THE CY'S BT KARAOKE (WH MORE THAN 15,000 SONGS AVAILABLE), REGULAR DRAG SHOWS AND A HOST OF SKILLED DJS WH THE BT MIC AND VIOS. NAMED BY THE LOGO CHANNEL AND OUT MAGAZE AS ONE OF THE BT GAY BARS THE WORLD.UPG EVENTS
• 6 CAN’T MISS GAY BARS/RTRANTS TO CELEBRATE PRI ATLANTA
• THE 5 BEST ATLANTA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS ATLANTA
• ATLANTA GAY MAP
• ATLANTA NEEDS S GAY BARS NOW MORE THAN EVER
• ATLANTA GAY BARS

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

While Midtown ntu to the be the center of gay life Atlanta and among the most renowned “gayborhoods” the South, LGBTQ clubs, stor and nightlife n be found all Atlanta neighborhoods om reveloped areas like Wt Midtown and East Atlanta to nearby suburbs like Detur and East Pot.

The area is emergg as Atlanta’s next gayborhood, as young profsnal members of the LGBTQ muny flock to the area to bee homeowners. Atlanta’s origal gayborhood, Midtown is the re of LGBTQ life Atlanta. Not only is Midtown the cultural hub of Atlanta, is also the home for gay nightlife Atlanta and shows jt how diverse Atlanta’s LGBTQ muny INFO.

ATLANTA NEEDS S GAY BARS NOW MORE THAN EVER

Technilly loted Midtown, the Ansley Square shoppg plex is a virtual gay urtyard featurg gay bars and shops. It is also home to Atlanta’s first and only gay sports bar, Woofs, which draws crowds for poker nights and viewg parti.

MOVG TO LGBT ATLANTA, GEIA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

Gay and lbian-owned rtrants and shops n be found both Cabbagetown and Grant Park, and gay-popular eateri such as Agave and T Lizzy’s are always full of fun. Jt down the street is Mary’s, an offbeat gay bar that featur legendary INFO. Midtown Atlanta’s popular male gay club, better known as Bulldogs, has e alive the nighttime for more than 40 years.

Atlanta is home to some of the bt gay-iendly are a handful of neighborhoods that offer proximy to fabulo gay bars and nightlife, so pull that U-Hl up to your new home a gay-iendly part of you are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr and lookg for a welg part of town —wh ameni you'll absolutely love — start wh the top Atlanta neighborhoods to fd your perfect new home.

The classic gay neighborhood, home to the Fox Theatre, and all the hottt gay clubs and bars.

MIDTOWN - GAY DISTRICT ? - ATLANTA FOM

Livg Midtown puts you the heart of gay Atlanta, and an easy walk to Atlanta's favore park, Piedmont Park. Home to the most gay upl per hoehold of any cy Geia, acrdg to the Williams Instute, makg Avondale Estat the place for LGBT upl to live.

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. This is a gay-iendly neighborhood you absolutely have to see. Caterg to the LGBTQ tourist is nothg new; ahead of the 1996 Olympics, The Atlanta Gay and Lbian Visors Center opened to help LGBTQ tourists fd their way around the cy.

AMERI'S FAVORE GAY BARKNOWN FOR OUR HIP AND FUN VIBE, VIS AND YOU’LL MEET NEW PEOPLE YOU WON’T FD OTHER PLAC. WE HAVE WEEKLY AND MONTHLY SPECIAL EVENTS, THE CY'S BT KARAOKE (WH MORE THAN 15,000 SONGS AVAILABLE), REGULAR DRAG SHOWS AND A HOST OF SKILLED DJS WH THE BT MIC AND VIOS. NAMED BY THE LOGO CHANNEL AND OUT MAGAZE AS ONE OF THE BT GAY BARS THE WORLD.UPG EVENTS

Neighborhood gui to gay Atlanta. Midtown is the origal “gayborhood” of Atlanta.

LGBTQ tourists will be most terted Mary’s, one of Atlanta’s bt gay bars, but there are several more nearby for people who like to pop between bars throughout the night. The bt gay bars Atlanta.

6 CAN’T MISS GAY BARS/RTRANTS TO CELEBRATE PRI ATLANTA

Swgg Richards claims to be the bt gay male strip club all of the US, but that will be somethg you’ll have to tt for yourself.

Mary’s has been regnized by OUT and LOGO as one of the bt gay bars the untry, and s karaoke nights are legendary.

Mary’s has a more relaxed vibe than some other gay bars the cy and is one of the bt plac to see some of the olt new drag performers. Sports lovers will fd their home at Woofs, Atlanta’s only gay sports bar.

THE 5 BEST ATLANTA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS ATLANTA

Ameri’s Black Gay Pri. Every Labor Day weekend, Atlanta hosts Ameri’s Black Gay Pri. The weekend is a celebratn of black gay culture, and everyone is ved.

There’s a movg sectn about Bayard Rt, the man who anized the March on Washgton but was not given cred for fear that his homosexualy would damage the image of the larger civil rights movement. Revelers at leather bar the Eagle 2015, six years after an famo police raidPhotograph by Alli Royce SobleArt Smh’s first Atlanta gay bar experience was when he danced the new year at Backstreet durg a weekend getaway at the end of 1982. “We were so overwhelmed by the feelg of cln and energy the gay scene, ” says Smh, who lived wh his boyiend Nashville at the time.

They cid the next day to move to Smh first disvered Atlanta’s gay nightlife, the scene was boomg wh dozens of plac to drk, dance, and watch drag. “Gay bars felt like a safe space to open up the possibily of figurg out who you were.

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” Doug Craft, a bartenr at Blake’s on the Park for 30 years, says the purpose of a gay bar transcends mere socializg: “I’ve felt like a unselor who helped others make the transn to self-acceptance.

ATLANTA NEEDS S GAY BARS NOW MORE THAN EVER

”In the 1990s, lbians unted the Othersi Lounge and Revolutn as mastays, and the Black gay crowd equented the lik of Bulldogs. “I’m not gog to argue wh the fact was segregated, but Atlanta was and is the gay pal of the South, and so, you went to the bars that tered to what you liked, ” says Reverend Dunn Teague, one of the first Black AIDS outreach workers for AID Atlanta.

”Yet as queer culture has gone mastream enough for the crosswalk near Blake’s to be repated as a rabow, the gay bar scene the cy and natnwi has ntracted.

ATLANTA GAY BARS

In the 1970s, there were 2, 500 gay bars across the untry; today, there are half as many. And gay nightlife is now further imperiled by the threat all bars face as a rult of the panmic.

While the AIDS crisis brought the gay muny and s bars together, COVID is drivg them the height of AIDS, Grooms remembers attendg up to five funerals a week—followed by benefs at the bars.

“It was a horrible moment, but the gay muny really got together and gave what they uld, ” he says. ”The 1990s brought antiretroviral therapy for HIV and a populatn boom to Atlanta, but nothg that era affected the gay bars more than onle datg. “Almost overnight, everythg changed, ” says Alan Colls, the manager of gay bar the Heretic.