Atlanta Black Pri Weekend Calendar – Geia Voice – Gay & LGBT Atlanta News

Contents:

• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• THOANDS TRAVELG TO ATLANTA FOR KICKOFF OF ATLANTA BLACK GAY PRI
• GAY PRI CALENDAR
• (GALLERY) ATLANTA BLACK GAY PRI WEEKEND & PURE HEAT COMMUNY FT CELEBRATED IN ATLANTA

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

As we know that many of the gay BIPOC aren’t always reprented our cy's history, we ve you to share rmatn on the LGBTQ+ grant/Historic Context Statement on your social media channels to help intify Black spac and plac that were important to the gay muni.

A natnal event signed to une the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgenr, Qutng, Intersex and Asexual (LGBTQIA+) muny their iends, fai and many supporters. It’s no secret Black Gay Pri Atlanta is one of the most vised Pri celebratns Ameri.

THOANDS TRAVELG TO ATLANTA FOR KICKOFF OF ATLANTA BLACK GAY PRI

Atlanta, Geia has one of the largt and diverse Ain-Amerin Lbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgenr, Qutng, Intersex and Asexual (LGBTQIA+) populatns the Uned Stat. To learn more about our ATL’s risk-takg change makers and historic moments beyond the Pri Para, we enurage you to explore the Atlanta Lbian and Gay History Thg llectn, the Geia LGBTQ Archiv Project, the Touchg Up Our Roots oral history project, and other rourc listed below this article. The ant actns of Atlanta Police Augt 1969 galvanized the cy’s movement and led to the foundatn of the Geia Gay Liberatn Front, Atlanta’s first gay activist group to ga polil tractn.

GAY PRI CALENDAR

This small act of prott sent rippl through the cy’s gay muny.

The followg year, the Geia Gay Liberatn Front anized Atlanta’s first Pri para.

Around 100 monstrators—mostly whe mal—marched down Midtown’s siwalks rryg “Equal Rights for Gays” posters.

(GALLERY) ATLANTA BLACK GAY PRI WEEKEND & PURE HEAT COMMUNY FT CELEBRATED IN ATLANTA

Mayor Maynard Jackson clared the day of the para, June 26, to be Gay Pri Day Atlanta. The followg year, Mayor Jackson issued a subsequent proclamatn for Civil Liberti Day after facg backlash for his emphasis of Gay Pri 1976.

Activist Larry Lghl wrote The Barb, “If the [1977] March did nothg else but show other gays our potential, was well worth the effort.

” (In 1993 Jackson proclaimed the full week of June 21-27 “Lbian and Gay Pri/Human Rights Week” Atlanta—the mancript for which is hoed at Atlanta History Center’s Kenan Rearch Center.

Though not a part of the official Atlanta Pri Para, Hotlanta River Expo’s gural year attracted more than 300 gay men raftg down the Chattahoochee River.

By 1989, the event had grown to one of the largt gay events the Southeast. Back on land, Atlanta Pri officially beme Atlanta Lbian, Gay, and Transperson Pri 1980.

The followg year, Lbian, Gay, and Transperson Pri Week was celebrated lolly by an timated 3, 500 participants.