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Contents:

• MOVE- READY: HERE ARE 6 OF ATLANTA'S BT GAY-IENDLY NEIGHBORHOODS
• MOVG TO GAY GEIA? THG TO KNOW BEFORE RELOTG HERE AS AN LGBT PERSON.
• MOVG TO GAY GEIA? THG TO KNOW BEFORE RELOTG HERE AS AN LGBT PERSON.
• WHY THIS GEIA MOUNTA TOWN HAS BEE A GAY-IENDLY HOT SPOT
• MOVG TO LGBT ATLANTA, GEIA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

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

While Midtown ntu to the be the center of gay life Atlanta and among the most renowned “gayborhoods” the South, LGBTQ clubs, stor and nightlife n be found all Atlanta neighborhoods om reveloped areas like Wt Midtown and East Atlanta to nearby suburbs like Detur and East Pot. The area is emergg as Atlanta’s next gayborhood, as young profsnal members of the LGBTQ muny flock to the area to bee homeowners. Atlanta’s origal gayborhood, Midtown is the re of LGBTQ life Atlanta.

MOVG TO GAY GEIA? THG TO KNOW BEFORE RELOTG HERE AS AN LGBT PERSON.

Not only is Midtown the cultural hub of Atlanta, is also the home for gay nightlife Atlanta and shows jt how diverse Atlanta’s LGBTQ muny INFO. Technilly loted Midtown, the Ansley Square shoppg plex is a virtual gay urtyard featurg gay bars and shops. It is also home to Atlanta’s first and only gay sports bar, Woofs, which draws crowds for poker nights and viewg parti.

Gay and lbian-owned rtrants and shops n be found both Cabbagetown and Grant Park, and gay-popular eateri such as Agave and T Lizzy’s are always full of fun. Jt down the street is Mary’s, an offbeat gay bar that featur legendary INFO. 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.

MOVG TO GAY GEIA? THG TO KNOW BEFORE RELOTG HERE AS AN LGBT PERSON.

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. 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.

WHY THIS GEIA MOUNTA TOWN HAS BEE A GAY-IENDLY HOT SPOT

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. This is a gay-iendly neighborhood you absolutely have to see. June 27, 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of Atlanta’s first gay pri march.

Here’s a look back at some key moments that shaped the cy’s LGBTQ muny over the last five 1969 – Atlanta police raid the Ansley Mall Mi Cema Midtown durg a showg of Andy Warhol’s “Lonome Cowboys, ” a wtern satire that featur gay sex scen.

MOVG TO LGBT ATLANTA, GEIA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

” The raid, together wh New York Cy’s Stonewall rts six weeks earlier, is the talyst for Atlanta’s gay rights 1971 – More than 100 activists assemble Midtown for Atlanta’s first gay pri march to mark the two-year anniversary of Stonewall.

Led by members of the Geia Gay Liberatn Front, which formed rponse to the Ansley raid and other police harassment, participants ph for an end to sodomy laws and discrimatn the workplace, hog and other 1972 – A group of lbian activists form the Atlanta Lbian Femist Alliance, a group that would bee a powerful force the cy’s LGBTQ muny for 1976 – Mayor Maynard Jackson issu Atlanta’s first “Gay Pri Day” proclamatn. ”June 1978 – An appearance by Ana Bryant, the sger and activist who opposed gay rights, at the Southern Baptist Conventn attracts several thoand protters to Atlanta’s World Congrs Center and revigorat the cy’s LGBTQ liberatn movement.

Explore50 years ago, Atlanta’s gay rights ph took to street for first time1982- AID Atlanta, an agency that provis HIV/AIDS-related servic and tn, opens. Supreme Court l that Geia’s sodomy law is nstutnal as relat to gay upl.

In his ncurrg opn, then-Chief Jtice Warren Burger wrote that “to hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to st asi lennia of moral teachg. ”Cred: The Atlanta Journal-ConstutnCred: The Atlanta Journal-ConstutnAugt 1993 – Cobb County adopts a rolutn llg homosexualy “patible wh the standards to which this muny subscrib. ” The move was part a reactn to the stagg of the play “Lips Together, Teeth Apart, ” which has gay referenc, Marietta Square.

Ls than a year later, unr prsure om gay rights advot, the Atlanta Commtee for the Olympic Gam announced was pullg volleyball gam out of Cobb County rponse to the 1996 – A gatherg of Black LGBTQ iends Piedmont Park sparks what eventually be Atlanta Black Pri, an annual Labor Day weekend ftival that now draws upwards of 10, 000 people to the cy for arts, cultural and tnal events.

ExploreFlashback Photos: Atlanta's Gay Pri march through the yearsNovember 1998 – Geia’s Supreme Court strik down the state’s 165-year-old sodomy law.

The actn me the same year that Massachetts beme the first state the untry to legalize gay marriage. September 2009 – Two dozen Atlanta police officers raid the Midtown gay bar the Atlanta Eagle, orrg ctomers to the floor while g anti-gay slurs. 2014 – Activists lnch Southern Fried Queer Pri, which foc on empowerg queer and trans people of lor through the 2015 – Gay marriage is legalized for the first time Geia after the Supreme Court l that the Constutn’s equal protectn and due procs cls protect same-sex 2016 – Then-Gov.