Atlanta Black Gay Pri, the untry's leadg LGBTQ annual pri marks s 22nd-year celebratn wh a roarg le-up occurrg durg the Labor Day
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CELEBRATE ATL BLACK GAY PRI 2018
Participants the 1977 Atlanta Pri ParaPhotograph urty of Jerome McClendon/AJC/GSU llectnAugt 5, 1969Atlanta Police raid Ansley Mall Mi Cema’s screeng of Andy Warhol’s gay-themed Lonome Cowboys, takg photos of the approximately 70 atten. The raid spir the formatn of the Geia Gay Liberatn 1970On the first anniversary of New York Cy’s Stonewall Uprisg Greenwich Village, Atlanta’s first Gay Pri rally, prised of a ragtag group of about 100 people, mostly whe men jeans and T-shirts, tak place Piedmont Park—wh some bravely strollg siwalks rryg “Equal Rights for Gays” plards. Atlanta is among a handful of ci to mark the 1972Approximately 100 Atlanta “Gay Pri Day” participants marchg down Peachtree Street are greeted wh “stony ntempt, ” “disbelief, ” “s, ” and “flashed peace signs” by onlookers, reports the Great Speckled Bird, a long-nng lol unrground 1973A photo published the Atlanta Barb, one of the cy’s first gay newspapers, shows a female participant marchg wh a paper sack over her head and rryg a sign that says, “If I Showed My Face I Would Lose My Job.
1976Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson issu the cy’s first Gay Pri Day proclamatn.
1978Bulldogs, a ty bar which is still the epicenter of Atlanta’s Black gay party scene, Hotlanta Raft Race lnched 1978Photograph urty of Special Collectns & Archiv, Geia State Universy Library1978Sometim scribed as the granddaddy of Atlanta’s gay circu parti, the first Hotlanta Raft Race floats down the Chattahoochee River wh about 200 participants.