Blake's on the Park | Atlanta's Neighborhood Gay Bar

Contents:

• REMEMBERG TRAXX AND TEXAS: ATLANTA BLACK GAY AND LBIAN NIGHTLIFE BACK THE DAY
• LOTED THE HEART OF ATLANTA’S MIDTOWN GAYBORHOOD, BLAKE’S ON THE PARK IS A VIO & DANCE BAR WH DJS, DANCERS, DRAG SHOWS AND SO MUCH MORE.
• BULLDOGS: ATLANTA’S LTLE GAY BAR THAT ULD
• THE 5 BEST ATLANTA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS ATLANTA
• GAY CLUBS
• ATLANTA HAS BEE MAG FOR BLACK GAYS

REMEMBERG TRAXX AND TEXAS: ATLANTA BLACK GAY AND LBIAN NIGHTLIFE BACK THE DAY

You have to attend East Atlanta Village’s all-black drag show lled NeonBLK at the famo Mary’s gay bar. 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.

LOTED THE HEART OF ATLANTA’S MIDTOWN GAYBORHOOD, BLAKE’S ON THE PARK IS A VIO & DANCE BAR WH DJS, DANCERS, DRAG SHOWS AND SO MUCH MORE.

Woof’s Sports Bar has been providg vib for Atlanta’s gay muny sce 2002. Midtown Atlanta’s popular male gay club, better known as Bulldogs, has e alive the night time for more than 40 years. Bulldogs is a favore for Atlanta’s Black gay culture wh DJs spng the latt rap and hip-hop sounds, sendg everyone to the dance floor.

Out magaze named Mary’s East Atlanta one of the world’s bt gay bars.

BULLDOGS: ATLANTA’S LTLE GAY BAR THAT ULD

Soon after my arrival Atlanta July 1992, I me upon a surgg Black gay nightlife, which helped nvce me that relotg om New York Cy was worth the risk. Along wh his roommate Durand Robson, Boone moved to the Atlanta Overlook, an Old Fourth Ward apartment plex known for s abundance of Black gay male rints. Hampton then persuad the owner to rerve a Black gay night which turn tablished the TRAXX Saturday parti.

Or New York Cy, Black gays Atlanta had never seen such a sweepg facily signed for them. As gay men and lbians tend to party separately, brgg them together on the same night was a signifint feat. Once Lyl began anizg Atlanta, she enuntered whe gay men anizers who were ristant to workg wh Black lbians.

THE 5 BEST ATLANTA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS ATLANTA

Atlanta’s LGBTQ astcture was domated by whe gay men and to a lser extent whe lbians, while the emergg Black LGBTQ social scene mostly tered to Black gay men. “Sce we’ve closed, how many Black gays have a liquor license their name? ” Outsi of private functns, visible Black LGBTQ nightlife is disappearg along wh the -gayg of midtown Atlanta.

In 2013, the cy earned a perfect sre on the Human Rights Campaign’s Municipal Equaly Inx and was the 2020 Top Dtatn Cy by the Gay Travel Awards.

GAY CLUBS

“I renciled my spirualy and sexual orientatn here while explorg what tly means to learn to love and accept myself wholeheartedly as a black gay man.

I have met Ao-Lato, Ain, Caribbean, and Black Amerin unterparts who are gay, bisexual, and lbian. I love that the cy is unapologetilly black and unapologetilly gay.

ATLANTA HAS BEE MAG FOR BLACK GAYS

“I thk what mak this cy special for black gay men is that here they have a certa gree of eedom and self-exprsn rivalg any metropolan cy the Uned Stat (and the rt of the world for that matter). I have seen how iends om out of town equent the cy for black gay pri or even jt a regular holiday weekend, and I have seen so much growth them as men.

There are also many opportuni for black gay people to tablish iendships, pursue dat, and even get married! “If I told you the number of black gay immigrants I have met that live here or vis equently, you would lose your md!

” Obna shar his terview, “I remember when I vised my tw brother for the first time after he moved out to Atlanta 2015, and he troduced me to a small group of Nigerian gay men that he met via Tr.