Former Democratic gubernatorial ndidate Stacey Abrams will serve as a Grand Marshal Atlanta's Gay Pri Para.
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- STACEY ABRAMS TO SERVE AS GRAND MARSHAL ATLANTA GAY PRI PARA
- 6 CAN’T MISS GAY BARS/RTRANTS TO CELEBRATE PRI ATLANTA
- STACEY ABRAMS TO SERVE AS GRAND MARSHAL ATLANTA GAY PRI PARA
STACEY ABRAMS TO SERVE AS GRAND MARSHAL ATLANTA GAY PRI PARA
* gay pride parade atlanta 2019 *
The Big Gay Pri Bnch. 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.
6 CAN’T MISS GAY BARS/RTRANTS TO CELEBRATE PRI ATLANTA
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. 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.
STACEY ABRAMS TO SERVE AS GRAND MARSHAL ATLANTA GAY PRI PARA
By 1989, the event had grown to one of the largt gay events the Southeast.