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Contents:

• REPORT: THUNR WAIVE 17-YEAR VETERAN RUDY GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• 80 PERCENT OF BLACK MEN ATLANTA ARE GAY?
• MOVE- READY: HERE ARE 6 OF ATLANTA'S BT GAY-IENDLY NEIGHBORHOODS
• MOVG TO LGBT ATLANTA, GEIA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

REPORT: THUNR WAIVE 17-YEAR VETERAN RUDY GAY

The Oklahoma Cy Thunr are waivg veteran forward Rudy Gay after acquirg him earlier the offseason, sourc told The Athletic's Shams Utah Jazz alt Gay to the Atlanta Hawks the John Colls tra early July, and he was then sent to Oklahoma Cy a few days later a move that sent Patty Mills back to holds reer averag of 15.

Waivg Gay still leav the Thunr four guaranteed roster spots over the maximum the latt trendg sports news daily your boxMORE STORIESGet the latt trendg sports news daily your box. Atlanta has one of the largt gay populatns the untry – and arguably one of the most polilly volved. ”Gay, black and HIV posive: Ameri's hidn epimic – vioWhen to LGBTQ rights, that progrs is imprsive.

After livg plac like DC and Portland, she says she was a “ltle skeptil about how progrsive would be, but was pleasantly surprised” by the cy’s liberal valu and vibrant gay scene.

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

The gay scene is noticeably racially segregated, says Iv Fischer, a 20-year-old YouTuber, stunt and activist. ”Ryan Lee, a lumnist at Geia Voice, an LGBTQ media outlet, also scrib the gay scene Atlanta as “100% segregated”.

A number of gay bars, he says, have ma very clear that they don’t wele black LBGT people. He c popular gay venue Blake’s on the Park, as one example, which was cricized after puttg up posters sayg “No hoodi, ” “No bandanas/w rags”, “No oversized chas or medallns”; a move terpreted by many as really meang “No people of lor. ” Burkhart’s pub, a proment gay venue, also drew ntroversy earlier this year after racist Facebook posts by s owner surfaced.

”My Sister’s Room, the only lbian bar Atlanta, is ‘very racially mixed’Racism is a major issue the gay muny all around the world and a lot of ci, cludg London and Philalphia, have a separate Black Pri celebratn. Munford not that the one lbian bar Atlanta, My Sister’s Room, is “very racially mixed” and the cy’s gay scene certaly feels more progrsive than Portland, where there are very few people of lor.

80 PERCENT OF BLACK MEN ATLANTA ARE GAY?

Cable observ that segregatn Atlanta’s gay scene feels on a par wh other ci which he has lived, cludg LA and San feels like a very live issue here, given racial tensns Geia more broadly, which have bee ternatnal news.

Brian Kemp, the Republin ndidate for ernor who, as Geia secretary of state, is also rponsible for overseeg the electn which he’s nng, stands acced of purgg mory voters om the rolls – the majory of them has also said that if he ws he’ll support a relig eedom law which many people see as a license to discrimate agast gay and transgenr people. 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 area is emergg as Atlanta’s next gayborhood, as young profsnal members of the LGBTQ muny flock to the area to bee homeowners.

Not only is Midtown the cultural hub of Atlanta, is also the home for gay nightlife Atlanta and shows jt how diverse Atlanta’s LGBTQ muny INFO.

MOVE- READY: HERE ARE 6 OF ATLANTA'S BT GAY-IENDLY NEIGHBORHOODS

Technilly loted Midtown, the Ansley Square shoppg plex is a virtual gay urtyard featurg gay bars and shops. It is also home to Atlanta’s first and only gay sports bar, Woofs, which draws crowds for poker nights and viewg parti. Gay and lbian-owned rtrants and shops n be found both Cabbagetown and Grant Park, and gay-popular eateri such as Agave and T Lizzy’s are always full of fun.

Atlanta has bee known as a travel statn for many black gay Amerins, who feel is one of the few plac the south where they n feel safe and for those who actually ll home, Atlanta n be difficult to navigate.

Beg black and gay also means beg more exposed than most to the threat of HIV: 67% of all diagnos Fulton unty, which clus most of downtown Atlanta, are gay and bisexual men. Once the rnerstone of the black muny, has perpetuated toxic attus about gay people, he says, which is particularly trimental to the self-teem of the many black gay people who look to the church for spirual – who 2015 was appoted to the Printial Advisory Council on HIV/Aids – says ABPW provis a different space for healg.

MOVG TO LGBT ATLANTA, GEIA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

“I thk beg Jamain I have a different kd of sense of fear around homophobia, bee I know what that n look like, ” Anthony two plan to get married and have children, but want to leave the south to do so. ”Kelli Man, 28 and Chantel Kennedy, 28“The gay muny here is very close-kn, everyone knows here and ’s OK to be ourselv, ” says two aspirg hip-hop artists performed at the Pure Heat ftival, one of the largt events of ABPW last reloted to Atlanta bee of s opportuni and muny for black people, which Kennedy says ma the move, who is sgle, says datg Atlanta is a “wi playg field”: “There are no lims.

He says there is a stigma attached to beg LGBT the south, and that even a place like Atlanta, wh a large gay populatn, discrimatn is still a part of everyday life.