Atlanta needs s gay bars now more than ever - Atlanta Magaze

Contents:

• MOVE- READY: HERE ARE 6 OF ATLANTA'S BT GAY-IENDLY NEIGHBORHOODS
• DTATN GAY ATLANTA TRAVEL GUI: 2022-2023 EDN
• ATLANTA GAY AND LBIAN SCENE
• ATLANTA NEEDS S GAY BARS NOW MORE THAN EVER

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

Atlanta is home to some of the bt gay-iendly are a handful of neighborhoods that offer proximy to fabulo gay bars and nightlife, so pull that U-Hl up to your new home a gay-iendly part of you are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr and lookg for a welg part of town —wh ameni you'll absolutely love — start wh the top Atlanta neighborhoods to fd your perfect new home. The classic gay neighborhood, home to the Fox Theatre, and all the hottt gay clubs and bars. Livg Midtown puts you the heart of gay Atlanta, and an easy walk to Atlanta's favore park, Piedmont Park.

DTATN GAY ATLANTA TRAVEL GUI: 2022-2023 EDN

Home to the most gay upl per hoehold of any cy Geia, acrdg to the Williams Instute, makg Avondale Estat the place for LGBT upl to live. This neighborhood is an easy bike ri to the many gay or gay-iendly bars that le the streets of Midtown like Joe's on Juniper and Este's — and an even easier trek to Piedmont Park for piics or to meet new iends at Piedmont's dog park.

ATLANTA GAY AND LBIAN SCENE

This is a gay-iendly neighborhood you absolutely have to see. 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. The gay scene is noticeably racially segregated, says Iv Fischer, a 20-year-old YouTuber, stunt and activist.

Really all the gay events happen whe clubs. ”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.

ATLANTA NEEDS S GAY BARS NOW MORE THAN EVER

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.

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. Atlanta Gay and Lbian Scene.