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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.

Racism, sexism and homophobia are rife.

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.

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“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.

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Workg the entertament dtry, Christopher says he nstantly has to shoot down generalizatns about gay men. “The stereotype is that gay people n be tty, extra and flamboyant, but that’s not everybody. “Many people our muny grew up theologil abive and spirually vlent church where the teachg, preachg and the theology was anti-gay.

“Unls you’re the gay muny people aren’t open about , ” Delaney says. Melissa “DJ M” Stt, 42As a star of docoap Love & Hip Hop Atlanta, and founr of party promotn group Traxx Girls, Stt nsirs her missn to help people feel more fortable wh beg out and gay.

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“She jt has a gay kid and a succsful gay kid at that, ” Stt says.

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Photograph by Phillip Bigby/GEORGIAVOICEDunn Teague was feelg cute after primpg for his but Atlanta’s Black gay social scene Augt 1984, but the recent llege graduate om Kansas soon learned he was unrdrsed for a backyard soiree hosted by Henri McTerry. “I had never seen an outdoor event durg the daylight somebody’s backyard wh this many Black gay men— was astoundg. ”Photograph by Phillip Bigby/GEORGIAVOICEPhotograph by Phillip Bigby/GEORGIAVOICEPhotograph by Phillip Bigby/GEORGIAVOICETeague would learn McTerry’s piic was one of many Black gay gathergs occurrg across the cy every Labor Day, and those parti created a 40-year legacy of Black queer folks om across the untry flockg to Atlanta durg the fal weekend of the Life Atlanta (ITLA) was the first group to formalize the Labor Day celebratns to Black Gay Pri 1996, by supplementg the weekend of partyg wh health workshops, poetry slams, panel discsns, and, ocsnally, a march through Atlanta’s streets.

“We weren’t different or better than people who clearly me here for the bathhoe or clubs, but we really me for the whole cultural experience of what Black Gay Pri was about, ” says Raymond R.

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