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Contents:
- BULLDOGS: ATLANTA’S LTLE GAY BAR THAT ULD
- THE UNSPOKEN PAST: ATLANTA LBIAN AND GAY HISTORY
- THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
- GAY MOSW · CY GUI
BULLDOGS: ATLANTA’S LTLE GAY BAR THAT ULD
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On weekends offers a broar reprentatn of Black gay men than media picts.
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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.
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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. Our dad, Carme Vara, ran gay nightclubs Boston and Provcetown. He also owned a place Provcetown lled the Crown & Anchor, which was a hotel, gay bar, and baret for female impersonators.