Queer Midtown: How Atlanta Beme an Epicenter of Gay Life | Midtown Atlanta

Contents:

• THE UNSPOKEN PAST: ATLANTA LBIAN AND GAY HISTORY
• QUEER MIDTOWN: HOW ATLANTA BEME AN EPICENTER OF GAY LIFE
• ATLANTA LBIAN AND GAY HISTORY THG PAPERS AND PUBLITNS

THE UNSPOKEN PAST: ATLANTA LBIAN AND GAY HISTORY

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. ” 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.

QUEER MIDTOWN: HOW ATLANTA BEME AN EPICENTER OF GAY LIFE

”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.

ATLANTA LBIAN AND GAY HISTORY THG PAPERS AND PUBLITNS

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.