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Contents:
- 6 CAN’T MISS GAY BARS/RTRANTS TO CELEBRATE PRI ATLANTA
- HOW ONE MARCH FOR GAY RIGHTS LNCHED NEARLY 50 YEARS OF ATLANTA PRI
6 CAN’T MISS GAY BARS/RTRANTS TO CELEBRATE PRI ATLANTA
Am, Iowa, pated s first crosswalks wh the lors of the gay, genr non-bary and transgenr pri flags September. “[The tersectn] is where many gay people who felt isolated–particularly young gay people–knew we uld go to be around other people jt like , and an area where you uld go to support gay bs, ” Smh said. Spurred by the uprisg’s natnal attentn as well Atlanta’s own Lonome Cowboys raids, 100 monstrators—mostly whe mal—marched down Midtown’s siwalks rryg “Equal Rights for Gays” posters.
This small act of prott sent rippl through the cy’s gay muny. Mayor Maynard Jackson clared the day of the para, June 26, to be Gay Pri Day Atlanta.
The followg year, Mayor Jackson issued a subsequent proclamatn for Civil Liberti Day after facg backlash for his emphasis of Gay Pri 1976.
HOW ONE MARCH FOR GAY RIGHTS LNCHED NEARLY 50 YEARS OF ATLANTA PRI
Activist Larry Lghl wrote The Barb, “If the [1977] March did nothg else but show other gays our potential, was well worth the effort. Though not a part of the official Atlanta Pri Para, Hotlanta River Expo’s gural year attracted more than 300 gay men raftg down the Chattahoochee River. By 1989, the event had grown to one of the largt gay events the Southeast.