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Contents:
- THREE ARRTED ATLANTA AFTER YOUNG BOY HAD “GAY” SHAVED TO HEAD
- ATLANTA NEEDS S GAY BARS NOW MORE THAN EVER
- ATLANTA ANTI-GAY GANG BEATG CGHT ON TAPE, BUT OFFICIALS SAY NO VICTIM HAS COME FORWARD (VIDEO)
- GAY ATLANTA UPLE CHARGED WH RAPG ADOPTED SONS ALSO 'PIMPED THEM OUT TO OTHER LOL PEDOPHIL'
- WHY THIS GEIA MOUNTA TOWN HAS BEE A GAY-IENDLY HOT SPOT
THREE ARRTED ATLANTA AFTER YOUNG BOY HAD “GAY” SHAVED TO HEAD
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The vio zooms on the boy’s head, showg “GAY” has been shaved to his hair. Related: Geia boy who had ‘gay’ shaved to head by fay placed protective ctody.
ATLANTA NEEDS S GAY BARS NOW MORE THAN EVER
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ATLANTA ANTI-GAY GANG BEATG CGHT ON TAPE, BUT OFFICIALS SAY NO VICTIM HAS COME FORWARD (VIDEO)
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Revelers at leather bar the Eagle 2015, six years after an famo police raidPhotograph by Alli Royce SobleArt Smh’s first Atlanta gay bar experience was when he danced the new year at Backstreet durg a weekend getaway at the end of 1982.
“We were so overwhelmed by the feelg of cln and energy the gay scene, ” says Smh, who lived wh his boyiend Nashville at the time. They cid the next day to move to Smh first disvered Atlanta’s gay nightlife, the scene was boomg wh dozens of plac to drk, dance, and watch drag.
GAY ATLANTA UPLE CHARGED WH RAPG ADOPTED SONS ALSO 'PIMPED THEM OUT TO OTHER LOL PEDOPHIL'
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“Gay bars felt like a safe space to open up the possibily of figurg out who you were. ” Doug Craft, a bartenr at Blake’s on the Park for 30 years, says the purpose of a gay bar transcends mere socializg: “I’ve felt like a unselor who helped others make the transn to self-acceptance. ”In the 1990s, lbians unted the Othersi Lounge and Revolutn as mastays, and the Black gay crowd equented the lik of Bulldogs.
“I’m not gog to argue wh the fact was segregated, but Atlanta was and is the gay pal of the South, and so, you went to the bars that tered to what you liked, ” says Reverend Dunn Teague, one of the first Black AIDS outreach workers for AID Atlanta. ”Yet as queer culture has gone mastream enough for the crosswalk near Blake’s to be repated as a rabow, the gay bar scene the cy and natnwi has ntracted.
In the 1970s, there were 2, 500 gay bars across the untry; today, there are half as many. And gay nightlife is now further imperiled by the threat all bars face as a rult of the panmic.
WHY THIS GEIA MOUNTA TOWN HAS BEE A GAY-IENDLY HOT SPOT
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While the AIDS crisis brought the gay muny and s bars together, COVID is drivg them the height of AIDS, Grooms remembers attendg up to five funerals a week—followed by benefs at the bars. “It was a horrible moment, but the gay muny really got together and gave what they uld, ” he says. ”The 1990s brought antiretroviral therapy for HIV and a populatn boom to Atlanta, but nothg that era affected the gay bars more than onle datg.
“Almost overnight, everythg changed, ” says Alan Colls, the manager of gay bar the Heretic. By the time same-sex marriage was legalized 2015, many wonred whether the very nature and fn of gay bars need to expand. “Havg a bar specifilly for cisgenr gay men is still important, but people are lookg for more clive spac now.