Atlanta LGBT muny grieve shootg at Orlando gay nightclub

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• MAN SHOT MULTIPLE TIM DURG FIGHT OUTSI ATLANTA GAY BAR, POLICE SAY
• MOMENTS MAN PULLED A RIFLE AFTER A FIGHT BROKE AT A GAY CLUB IN ATLANTA, USA [VIO]
• FERAL LAWSU FILED AGAST ATLANTA POLICE OVER RAID AT GAY CLUB
• GAY CLUBS
• 5 PEOPLE SHOT NEAR ATLANTA NIGHTCLUB HOSTG BLACK GAY PRI EVENT
• THE 5 BEST ATLANTA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS ATLANTA
• IN LATT ATLANTA BOMBG, 5 ARE INJURED AT A GAY BAR
• ATLANTA LGBT MUNY MOURNS MASS SHOOTG AT ORLANDO GAY NIGHTCLUB
• FIVE SHOT ATTACK NEAR ATLANTA BLACK GAY PRI EVENT
• 5 PEOPLE SHOT NEAR ATLANTA NIGHTCLUB HOSTG BLACK GAY PRI EVENT

MAN SHOT MULTIPLE TIM DURG FIGHT OUTSI ATLANTA GAY BAR, POLICE SAY

(FOX 5) ATLANTA - One man is reverg the hospal after a shootg outsi a popular Virgia-Highland gay bar early Wednday morng. A man believed to be gay was reported to have created a scene at a gay club Atlanta the Uned Stat of Ameri after he was attacked by another gay. It is alleged that the man was beg attacked by another gay while he was leavg the club wh his gay partner his r.

Geofey Calhoun was at the gay bar at the time of the raid and said some officers didn't intify themselv as police. STORY HIGHLIGHTSGay bar patrons allege police ed anti-gay slurs, vlent tactics durg raidPolice raid the Atlanta Eagle bar September; patrons say they feared for their livAtlanta official said he hadn't been served wh su and wouldn't ment Atlanta, Geia (CNN) -- A feral lawsu was filed Tuday agast Atlanta police over a September raid at a gay club, on behalf of 19 patrons who say they were forcibly searched and taed. The su, filed by the gay-rights group Lambda Legal, nam Atlanta Police Chief Richard Penngton and 48 officers who were at the Atlanta Eagle bar the night of September 10.

MOMENTS MAN PULLED A RIFLE AFTER A FIGHT BROKE AT A GAY CLUB IN ATLANTA, USA [VIO]

"Eagle bar patrons heard anti-gay slurs; were forced to lay spilled beer and broken glass; and one was forced to lie on the floor even though he had jured his back the Iraq War. " "Several platiffs were terror and feared for their liv, believg that the Eagle was beg robbed or vad by crimals or gay-bashers who might kill or jure them, " the su ntu.

Demonstrators mand jtice Puerto Ri gay teen's slayg. Fight club is very homoerotic, and I don't unrstand how people still have a hard time acceptg or at least acknowledgg this. For the purpos of this post, I'm kd of gog to be gog through the movie a First-Time-Viewg lens, and potg out the scen that seem gay whout the power of hdsight.

*Somethg about the narrator sayg "We should do this aga sometime, " after their first time fightg pecially feeds to the gay sex allegory.

FERAL LAWSU FILED AGAST ATLANTA POLICE OVER RAID AT GAY CLUB

I feel the need to reerate, bee this subredd don't have a great history of beg very lerate, this is an amalgamatn of my opns om my first-time watchg this movie, and also my sire to see more gay characters movi. Fight club, even wh 's plot twist, still across as pretty gay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Succsfully fdg a gay club an unfaiar cy n be tryg. We let you know which on ter to gay men or lbians, what kds of shows and entertaments they host, and what tracks the DJs sp. Among the most celebrated gay bars Atlanta has to offer, Mary's has been named Atlanta's bt gay bar by "Creative Loafg" and one of the top 50 gay bars the world by "Out" magaze.

The ial hangout for anyone weary of over-the-top gay clubs Atlanta, The Hiout is the olst remag gay bar the cy. When to gay clubs Atlanta, Jungle is the preferred hot spot for dited dancers. An old-school landmark amongst gay bars, this Atlanta hot spot is still one of the most beloved plac to party Midtown.

GAY CLUBS

One of the most unpretent gay clubs Atlanta, the Eagle, a nontradnal leather bar, has been drawg wonrfully diverse and amible crowds for s. A lotn near Piedmont Park, floor-to-ceilg wdows lookg out on 10th Street, and a iendly, sual vibe distguish this neighborhood bar, whose clientele is largely gay.

5 PEOPLE SHOT NEAR ATLANTA NIGHTCLUB HOSTG BLACK GAY PRI EVENT

Durg the 1970s new gay rights groups formed, such as the Atlanta Lbian Femist Alliance and the Geia Gay Alliance, while an explosn of bars, rtrants, loung, bookstor, centers, and sports and recreatn teams met the social and cultural needs of gay women and men. Signature annual events, among them the Phyllis Killer Osr Awards, Miss Gay Atlanta Pageant, and Mr.

Gay Atlanta Pageant, beme signifint social stutns. Increasgly, gay Atlantans evoked the notn of pri at ralli Piedmont Park and onstage at popular bars like the Sweet Gum Head.

Throughout the 1970s, gay Atlantans veloped a polil voice through newspapers and magaz, while also foundg cultural stutns that fostered greater awarens of natnal LGBT issu and ncerns. Bill Smh started Atlanta’s first gay newspaper, the Atlanta Barb, later the Barb, 1974; January 1976, Richard Kavangh lnched Cise magaze. The former vered a spectm of polil and cultural issu, while the latter served as a monthly gui to the cy’s gay bars and social activi.

THE 5 BEST ATLANTA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS ATLANTA

By the end of the , was joed by Christopher’s Kd, a bookstore terg to a mostly gay male rearship. A sign of the evolvg polil landspe, the summer of 1977, Atlanta mayor Maynard Jackson issued a proclamatn for “Civil Liberti Day” rather than “Gay Pri Day, ” which he had supported the year before.

When Miami-Da County passed a gay rights ordance 1977, Ana Bryant, bety queen and Florida orange juice spokperson, emerged as the lear of the fight to repeal the legislatn.

Gay Atlantans creasgly addrsed lol ncerns, while engagg the emergg natnal movement. The first natnal March on Washgton for gay and lbian equaly took place on October 14, 1979. Organized rponse to several high-profile events, cludg the assassatn of the openly gay San Francis cy supervisor Harvey Milk and Ana Bryant’s “Save Our Children” mpaign, Atlantans joed the march.

IN LATT ATLANTA BOMBG, 5 ARE INJURED AT A GAY BAR

At the lol and natnal level that year, gay women and men memorated the tenth anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg and monstrated the powerful symbolism of muny. Nohels, at var pots thoughout the whe lbians and Ain Amerin gay women and men found themselv exclud om predomately whe male muny anizatns and popular gatherg plac and created seperate spac to socialize and anize. 23, 1997See the article s origal ntext om Febary 23, 1997, Sectn 1, Page 18Buy ReprtsTimMache is an exclive benef for home livery and digal the fourth such cint seven months, a bomb explod Atlanta on Friday night, this one jurg at least five people at a gay nightclub and pellg law-enforcement officials to explore whether a serial bomber is at police vtigated the bombg at the Othersi Lounge, they found a backpack ntag a send bomb the club's parkg lot.

ATLANTA LGBT MUNY MOURNS MASS SHOOTG AT ORLANDO GAY NIGHTCLUB

Were much more ut on the nightclub, which primarily serv gay men and lbians, is on Piedmont Road, a by thoroughfare northeast Atlanta that was blocked off today as the police searched for shrapnel and other Spadafore said that at least 100 people had been the club at the time of the explosn and that another bar across the street, the Hot Spot, had also been crowd.

A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn 1, Page 18 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: In Latt Atlanta Bombg, 5 Are Injured at a Gay Bar. The slghter of 50 people at a gay nightclub Orlando spread grief and wars among Atlanta’s LGBT muny, but people reacted wh a fiance to be strong amid such horrific on a balmy Sunday morng, they saw their Facebook acunts and social media alerts light up wh news of a terrorism massacre that targeted people jt like them.

FIVE SHOT ATTACK NEAR ATLANTA BLACK GAY PRI EVENT

“I wonr if uld happen here, ” said Jeff Graham, executive director of Geia Equaly, an advocy group for the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny. “The people’s liv were stroyed by homophobia, ” said Lewis Bello, a performer lol gay bars.

5 PEOPLE SHOT NEAR ATLANTA NIGHTCLUB HOSTG BLACK GAY PRI EVENT

”Lol lears of the LGBT muny were hant to say the Orlando attack reprented a step back om advancements such as the legalizatn of gay marriage and the mastreamg of the Atlanta gay pri ftival, but some people said they felt an secury they hadn’t experienced years.

“I had iends say this morng, ‘I’m aaid to go out to a bar, ’ ” said Philip Rafshoon, who had owned the popular Outwre gay bookstore and ffee fought that fear wh fiance: “Well, I’m gog out tonight. ”“Our Amerin way of life”A gunman wieldg an asslt-type rifle and a handgun opened fire si a crowd gay nightclub early Sunday, killg at least 50 people and woundg 53 before dyg a gunfight wh SWAT officers, police attack on the Pulse nightclub was pecially ighteng bee such tablishments are often seen as a sanctuary, a safe place where same sex upl n hold hands whout worry, said Anthony Michael Kreis, a legal scholar at the Universy of ’s shootgs add a new dimensn to the history of hate agast gays and lbians.

“It’s really an attack on our Amerin way of life wh s eedom to live out our liv, ” Kreis ndlelight vigils for the victims of the Orlando massacre occurred Sunday night Armorett, a drag group that fundrais for HIV/AIDS Atlanta, performs at the gay club Burkharts every Sunday night.