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Contents:

• ATLANTA GAY AND LBIAN CENTER RERDS
• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• THE UNSPOKEN PAST: ATLANTA LBIAN AND GAY HISTORY
• THE NEWS : A PUBLITN OF THE ATLANTA GAY CENTER. (ATLANTA, GA.) 1984-199?
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• ATLANTA LBIAN AND GAY HISTORY THG PAPERS AND PUBLITNS
• ATLANTA GAY CENTER

ATLANTA GAY AND LBIAN CENTER RERDS

While Midtown ntu to the be the center of gay life Atlanta and among the most renowned “gayborhoods” the South, LGBTQ clubs, stor and nightlife n be found all Atlanta neighborhoods om reveloped areas like Wt Midtown and East Atlanta to nearby suburbs like Detur and East Pot. The Atlanta Gay and Lbian Center Rerds, 1996-2002, undated, document the activi of the Center and nsist of publitns, flyers for programs and servic, helple ll logs, handbooks, and trag materials.

Our goal is to have the rmatn piled and available when we wele Amerin Historil Associatn members and members of the Commtee on Lbian and Gay History to a receptn at the Auburn Avenue Rearch Library on Ain Amerin Culture and History on January 6, 2007, om 5:30–7:30 p. One pecially helpful tool planng your vis is the Atlanta Conventn & Visors Bure's LGBT web se,, a eful gui for special events, muny groups, gay neighborhoods, acmodatns, and more. ** 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.

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

Hoe of Reprentativ vot 230-133 to amend the Legal Assistance Act to prevent feral funds om providg legal help to anyone volved “the issue of homosexualy or so-lled gay rights. 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. ’’ 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.

THE UNSPOKEN PAST: ATLANTA LBIAN AND GAY HISTORY

** 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.

THE NEWS : A PUBLITN OF THE ATLANTA GAY CENTER. (ATLANTA, GA.) 1984-199?

** 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. ** October 14 - Atlanta gays and lbians travel to Washgton, DC for the First Natnal Lbian & Gay March on Washgton and the simultaneo Third World Lbian and Gay Conference; over 100, 000 people attend, cludg 4 b-loads om Atlanta. ** April 29 - A aln of gay and lbian anizatns picket Atlanta relig TV statn WANX (Channel 46) for endorsg a "Washgton for J" march anized by Christian fundamentalists opposed to (among other thgs) civil rights for gay people.

** Sprg - Atlanta's First Tuday Democratic Associatn breaks s ti to the Democratic Party and be the First Tuday Associatn for Lbian and Gay Rights, amendg s by-laws to clu 50% women and 20% Third World people on s steerg mtee. ** June 4 - Atlanta Gay Center and First Tuday Associatn for Lbian and Gay Rights hold a prs nference to prott Geia ernor Gee Bbee's letn of a reference to gay fai a remenda-tn ma by the Geia legatn to the Whe Hoe Conference on Fai. Congrs except Wyche Fowler and Bo Gn vote for a Hoe provisn troduced by lol Congrsman Larry McDonald that forbids the feral ernment's Legal Servic Corporatn om participatg s that might benef gay people.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

** July - In rponse to gay and lbian activists' objectns, and wh the help of Cy Council member Mary Davis, Atlanta Public Safety Commissner Lee Brown remov a qutn about sexual orientatn om the Police Department's employment form and lie-tector tt. ** Summer - Atlanta Cy Council members Mary Davis, Richard Guthman, John Sweet, and Marv Arrgton help remove vague language a cy ordance prohibg loerg that had been ed for years by police officers to harass gay men.

ATLANTA LBIAN AND GAY HISTORY THG PAPERS AND PUBLITNS

** September - Dance Atlanta, a lol anizatn that brgs ternatnally known dance groups to the cy, ref to rry advertisements s programs paid for by Atlanta's Christopher's Kd Bookshop, objectg to the ad's e of the words lbian and gay. ** March 13 - Over 300 gays and lbians picket an Atlanta appearance of Christian fundamentalist preacher Jerry Falwell, who was speakg here on behalf of anti-gay feral legislatn proposed by Geia Congrsman Larry McDonald.

John) at Image Film & Vio and The Silver Screen, a history semar, open ho at the Gay Center and ALFA, a street dance (on 7th Street between Piedmont and Juniper), and a voter registratn drive.

** July 29 - Atlanta gays and lbians jo others to prott Print Ronald Reagan's cutbacks on social programs, his attu toward the proposed Equal Rights Amendment, abortn, gay rights, ary polici, etc.

ATLANTA GAY CENTER

** September 22 - Reprentativ of the Atlanta Gay Center, the First Tuday Associatn, and the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn's Lbian and Gay Rights Chapter meet wh Public Safety Commissner Lee Brown and others to discs police harassment of Atlanta gay cizens. ** Febary 17 - A Fulton County Municipal Court judge upholds the right of a ceased lol gay man, PWA David O'Shield, to will part of his tate to his gay iend Gary Kpman, a right ntted by O'Shield’s fay. ** A productn of Terrence McNally’s Lips Together, Teeth Apart at Marietta’s Theatre the Square (found the prev year by gay uple Michael Horne and Palmer Wells) touch off a public bate that leads the Cobb County Commissn to stop fundg arts programs Cobb County and, later, to a rolutn nmng lbians and gay men.

** January – Due largely to the efforts of activist Alexanr Wallace, approximately twenty lol gay and lbian advocy groups jo forc to tablish a ordatg mtee, the Metro Council of Lbian and Gay Organizatns (MACGLO), which begs meetg at AIDAtlanta’s office on Cyprs Street. ** Southeastern Arts and Media Edutn (SAME) is chartered to nsolidate the admistratn of and fundraisg for several projects, cludg Amethyst (a lerary journal), the Atlanta Gay * Lbian Arts Ftival, Network Q, Out on Film (a film ftival), and the Triangle Theatre Group.

** Febary 9 - Gays and lbians and their supporters encircle the First Baptist Church downtown Atlanta, prottg mister Charl Stanley's sermonizg that AIDS is God's judgment agast sners. ** September 2 - Two Atlanta Cy Council members, Richard Guthman and Buddy Fowlk, troduce a measure to repeal the recently enacted civil rights protectn for gays and lbians Atlanta.