The streets of Midtown Atlanta were packed Sunday morng as thoands me out to celebrate Atlanta Gay Pri.
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LARGE CROWD ATTENDS FIRST ATLANTA GAY PRI PARA TWO YEARS
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Atlanta is often referred to as the gay pal of the South due to s progrsive reputatn, highly visible and robt LGBT muny, vibrant LGBT nightlife culture, and a growg number of LGBT people relotg to the cy. In 2010, The Advote named Atlanta the "gayt cy Ameri. ATLANTA - The streets of Midtown Atlanta were packed Sunday morng as thoands me out to celebrate Atlanta Gay Pri.
Like most Atlantans, Lter Wt vividly rells seeg his first Gay Pri para. Louis, had jt moved to the cy wh the lure of workg at the County Seat gay bar.
“Communy was the reason I moved here, bee Atlanta was nsired the gay mec of the south the ’70s. But the hours-long, televised, rporate-sponsored, rabow-hued spectacle that steps off on Peachtree Street 2022 is eons away om the cy’s first Pri march—protts held the aftermath of New York’s Stonewall rts 1969, which beme the accelerant for the morn gay rights movement.
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That June Sunday afternoon, he was bg a table at a Peachtree Center rtrant, when the para went past the those early prott march, held whout a cy perm, Atlanta police officers were lookg for reasons to arrt the hundred or so participants as they marched solidary to Piedmont Park (some verg their fac wh brown paper bags), rather than helpg to direct traffic as officers do a member of the Gay Liberatn Front, longtime activist Dave Heyward rells marchg wh his late mentor, Berl Boyk, who wrote to rrect the Uned Prs Internatnal wire story verage of the “Gay Liberatn Day” march published the Atlanta Journal-Constutn 1971. “My gay boyiends were some of the first people this cy who weled me and ma me feel accepted. ”As recent years, wh volunteer alli om the Pansy Patrol blockg out bullhorn-amplified anti-gay protters wh large, lorful pated flower plards as the para turns onto 10th Street, participants have always faced tensns along the route.
In the Black muny, back then pecially the South, you weren’t accepted if you were gay. “Bee I had watched for so many years, I knew firsthand that Atlanta’s gay muny had this enormo reprentatn that people need to know about.