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Contents:

• BULLDOGS: ATLANTA’S LTLE GAY BAR THAT ULD
• THE 5 BEST ATLANTA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS ATLANTA
• REMEMBERG TRAXX AND TEXAS: ATLANTA BLACK GAY AND LBIAN NIGHTLIFE BACK THE DAY
• ATLANTA HAS BEE MAG FOR BLACK GAYS

BULLDOGS: ATLANTA’S LTLE GAY BAR THAT ULD

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THE 5 BEST ATLANTA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS ATLANTA

Midtown Atlanta’s popular male gay club, better known as Bulldogs, has e alive the night time for more than 40 years. Bulldogs is a favore for Atlanta’s Black gay culture wh DJs spng the latt rap and hip-hop sounds, sendg everyone to the dance floor. Out magaze named Mary’s East Atlanta one of the world’s bt gay bars.

You have to attend East Atlanta Village’s all-black drag show lled NeonBLK at the famo Mary’s gay bar. Two patrons at BulldogsPhotograph by Rs Bowen-YoungbloodJt one story tall and tucked between 7th and 8th streets on Peachtree, a ty gay bar has built a reputatn that towers over many of the skyscrapers that surround . Although Bulldogs is known for a mature crowd, beme Thompson’s favore bar, and he nsirs a guipost for Black gay Atlanta, lkg generatns throughout s of dynamic change—although served a predomantly whe clientele until the late 1980s.

“I thk we would kd of be lost when to nightlife whout Bulldogs, ” Thompson says of the bar that has been the only nstant a Black gay party scene which often feels transnal, wh promoters rentg venu across the cy rather than hostg at a nsistent lotn. On weekends offers a broar reprentatn of Black gay men than media picts.

REMEMBERG TRAXX AND TEXAS: ATLANTA BLACK GAY AND LBIAN NIGHTLIFE BACK THE DAY

From young men drsed for the nway and others buff enough to be a UGA nng back to olr profsnals who look like they jt left the boardroom, the regulars at Bulldogs provi a snapshot of why Atlanta is nsired a Black gay a few years of Cochran startg to work as a doorman at Bulldogs 1998, high-rise buildgs were replacg gay bars and no-tell motels Midtown, and the stud apartments and triplex that attracted young queer people for s were beg phased out for sgle-fay hog and ndos. Bulldogs has outlasted other legendary gay clubs like Backstreet and the Armory, and has stood s ground amid persistent threats om new neighbors and velopers. Soon after my arrival Atlanta July 1992, I me upon a surgg Black gay nightlife, which helped nvce me that relotg om New York Cy was worth the risk.

ATLANTA HAS BEE MAG FOR BLACK GAYS

Along wh his roommate Durand Robson, Boone moved to the Atlanta Overlook, an Old Fourth Ward apartment plex known for s abundance of Black gay male rints. Hampton then persuad the owner to rerve a Black gay night which turn tablished the TRAXX Saturday parti.

Or New York Cy, Black gays Atlanta had never seen such a sweepg facily signed for them. As gay men and lbians tend to party separately, brgg them together on the same night was a signifint feat.

Once Lyl began anizg Atlanta, she enuntered whe gay men anizers who were ristant to workg wh Black lbians. Atlanta’s LGBTQ astcture was domated by whe gay men and to a lser extent whe lbians, while the emergg Black LGBTQ social scene mostly tered to Black gay men. “Sce we’ve closed, how many Black gays have a liquor license their name?