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BULLDOGS: ATLANTA’S LTLE GAY BAR THAT ULD

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Although Bulldogs is known for a mature crowd, beme Thompson’s favore bar, and he nsirs a guipost for Black gay Atlanta, lkg generatns throughout s of dynamic change—although served a predomantly whe clientele until the late 1980s.

“I thk we would kd of be lost when to nightlife whout Bulldogs, ” Thompson says of the bar that has been the only nstant a Black gay party scene which often feels transnal, wh promoters rentg venu across the cy rather than hostg at a nsistent lotn.

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On weekends offers a broar reprentatn of Black gay men than media picts.

From young men drsed for the nway and others buff enough to be a UGA nng back to olr profsnals who look like they jt left the boardroom, the regulars at Bulldogs provi a snapshot of why Atlanta is nsired a Black gay a few years of Cochran startg to work as a doorman at Bulldogs 1998, high-rise buildgs were replacg gay bars and no-tell motels Midtown, and the stud apartments and triplex that attracted young queer people for s were beg phased out for sgle-fay hog and ndos.

Bulldogs has outlasted other legendary gay clubs like Backstreet and the Armory, and has stood s ground amid persistent threats om new neighbors and velopers.

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In the 1970s, swaths of Peachtree Street and Piedmont Avenue were dotted wh rtrants, bars and clubs that tered to the gay muny. The Atlanta Gay Center opened 1976 Midtown and provid health, legal and social servic for LGBT people. In 1975, at the dawn of dis, Backstreet officially opened for bs at 845 Peachtree Street the heart of the begng, the massive, three-level, 10, 000-square-foot space ( had hoed Lang’s Interrs the 1950s), tered almost exclively to the cy’s burgeong whe gay male populatn.

Vara, ] my dad’s dad, owned the Punch Bowl, one of the most proment gay bars Boston.

My grandfather knew gay clubs were big money.

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