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LGBTQ history through the ey of one gay AtlantanTone Lane has spent his life havg fun. He now teach theater at the Midtown Internatnal School, where the self-scribed “proud gay man” heads the Gay Straight Alliance. “I have been blsed enough to wns the many s of gay life, ” he told Geia Voice.

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“I see how society and the gay life has morphed to a different kd of social and personal existence. The world Lane grew up gay was drastilly different om the world we know today — but a harsher social climate never prevented him om fdg a way to live his tth. It was the peak of the HIV epimic, which ripped through gay muni and publicized gay sexual life, openg the LGBTQ muny up to even more stigma, srn, and assumptns of pravy.

Homosexualy was emed “patible wh ary service” by the Army 1982 (a fdg that was revoked 1989). Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official California, was assassated only four years before, 1978. Homosexualy wasn’t effectively legalized Geia until 1998 wh Powell v.

However, mastream homophobia never stopped Lane om acceptg himself and livg his tth; thanks to “a strong circle of support through iendships, ” Lane me out “eely and whout any hatn. “I realized quickly that [beg gay] was who I am.

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This was done not only through iendships and chosen fay, but wh muny-buildg gay-only social spac. “[The gay bar life] was a safe haven, a go-to, where you knew everybody was gog to be there and you uld feel safe and have fun, ” Lane relled. The fight for equaly and gay marriage and wng that turned LGBTQ a really amazg directn, but also stood on s ear a b.

In only a few years, Pri celebratns shifted om tentnally sndalo gtur of dissent to rporate-sponsored, fay-iendly events — much to the dismay of the more radil olr gay folks, Lane not clud. “There were many neighborhood associatn [meetgs] where I had to stand up for myself [after beg negatively lled out for beg gay], ” he said.