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Contents:
- MIDTOWN ATLANTA GAY MEN
- WORK IT!: ATLANTA GAY DATG SERVICE GIV GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN A BETTER WAY TO MEET
MIDTOWN ATLANTA GAY MEN
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Whether you are visg for Natnal Pri Month June, Black Gay Pri durg Labor Day weekend or the annual Atlanta Pri Ftival October, you’ll be terted the top Atlanta LGBTQ+ owned bs, rtrants, merchants and attractns.
Here’s a look back at some key moments that shaped the cy’s LGBTQ muny over the last five 1969 – Atlanta police raid the Ansley Mall Mi Cema Midtown durg a showg of Andy Warhol’s “Lonome Cowboys, ” a wtern satire that featur gay sex scen.
” The raid, together wh New York Cy’s Stonewall rts six weeks earlier, is the talyst for Atlanta’s gay rights 1971 – More than 100 activists assemble Midtown for Atlanta’s first gay pri march to mark the two-year anniversary of Stonewall. Led by members of the Geia Gay Liberatn Front, which formed rponse to the Ansley raid and other police harassment, participants ph for an end to sodomy laws and discrimatn the workplace, hog and other 1972 – A group of lbian activists form the Atlanta Lbian Femist Alliance, a group that would bee a powerful force the cy’s LGBTQ muny for 1976 – Mayor Maynard Jackson issu Atlanta’s first “Gay Pri Day” proclamatn. ”June 1978 – An appearance by Ana Bryant, the sger and activist who opposed gay rights, at the Southern Baptist Conventn attracts several thoand protters to Atlanta’s World Congrs Center and revigorat the cy’s LGBTQ liberatn movement.
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”Cred: The Atlanta Journal-ConstutnCred: The Atlanta Journal-ConstutnAugt 1993 – Cobb County adopts a rolutn llg homosexualy “patible wh the standards to which this muny subscrib. Ls than a year later, unr prsure om gay rights advot, the Atlanta Commtee for the Olympic Gam announced was pullg volleyball gam out of Cobb County rponse to the 1996 – A gatherg of Black LGBTQ iends Piedmont Park sparks what eventually be Atlanta Black Pri, an annual Labor Day weekend ftival that now draws upwards of 10, 000 people to the cy for arts, cultural and tnal events. 2014 – Activists lnch Southern Fried Queer Pri, which foc on empowerg queer and trans people of lor through the 2015 – Gay marriage is legalized for the first time Geia after the Supreme Court l that the Constutn’s equal protectn and due procs cls protect same-sex 2016 – Then-Gov.
ExploreDrag, dgs and dis: When Atlanta was a center of the gay revolutnJune 2020 – The Supreme Court, a 6-3 cisn, l that employers nnot fire LGBTQ workers bee of their sexual orientatn or genr inty. 1918: Eight s after her ath, Dorothy Vogel’s dghter expos her mother as an Atlantan lbian a tell-all, reuntg her mother’s relatnships wh women a seri of photographs — photographs that would have damned her mother the anti-homosexual turn-of-the-century.
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** Febary – Approximately one hundred lol activists, origally anized by members of The Great Speckled Bird (published om 1968 to1978) form a Geia chapter of the Gay Liberatn Front. They prented him wh a list of mands—that he end police harassment of homosexuals, that he end all job discrimatn agast homosexuals, and that he pledge to help end social discrimatn agast homosexuals Atlanta. ** After a s- threat by Jim Snow, assistant pastor at MCC of Atlanta, gay lears fally achieve a face-to-face meetg wh Mayor Maynard Jackson to discs gay rights and allegatns of police harassment agast the gay muny.
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’’ Gay lears anize to rpond, and crics blast the seri for s ‘‘general omissn of the posive and nstctive work beg done by the gay people and gay anizatns’’ Atlanta, “while employg the more irascible stereotyp the muny. 300-500 (some reports state as many as 1, 000) Atlanta cizens gather for the annual lol memoratn of the Stonewall Rts; the theme this year is "Christopher Street South" and the ftival is sponsored by the Gay Rights Alliance, found by Lda Regnier and Victor Host. ** July - Lol gay and lbian activists picket Wi Road Baptist Church rponse to the anti-homosexual advertisement the Atlanta Journal that had been spearhead by the church’s pastor William Self.
** Augt - Dpe a lawsu by seven anonymo lol bsmen and lls for his rignatn by several lol Baptist misters, Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson ref to rcd his June orr proclaimg Gay Pri Day Atlanta. ** Activist Jam Moody mov to Atlanta and through the Gay Rights Alliance and wh -anchors David Hayward and Greg Jam gurat the program "Gay Digt" broadst by WRFG, Atlanta's muny-operated rad statn.
** June 11 - Approximately 1, 800 to 2, 000 Atlanta gay men, lbians, and their supporters om a aln of human rights groups picket Ana Bryant's keynote speech to the Southern Baptist Conventn's nference at the World Congrs Center. ** Febary - Created by the Atlanta Coaln for Human Rights that ordated gay protts of the June 1978 appearance Atlanta of Ana Bryant, the Atlanta Gay Center opens a Midtown facily. ** June - Shortly after Channel 11 TV ns a seri on male prostutn, the Fulton County Solicor issu warrants for the arrt of three gay owners and employe of lol gay publitns Sre and Cise Weekly on charg of distributg obscene materials.