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- THREE ARRTED ATLANTA AFTER YOUNG BOY HAD “GAY” SHAVED TO HEAD
- ATLANTA NEEDS S GAY BARS NOW MORE THAN EVER
THREE ARRTED ATLANTA AFTER YOUNG BOY HAD “GAY” SHAVED TO HEAD
Police Atlanta have arrted three people after a 12-year-old boy had “GAY” shaved to his head and was filmed beg mocked and slapped. In vio of the cint, the youth is surround by fay members who ll him a “gay ass bch” and acce him of “dog gay sh. The vio zooms on the boy’s head, showg “GAY” has been shaved to his hair.
Related: Geia boy who had ‘gay’ shaved to head by fay placed protective ctody. “As a Black queer man, I have experienced some of the same homophobia and some of the same abe by the hands of people that I love as a child, ” Barrgton-Ward said. Gay man has jaw “stroyed” wh hammer btal attack.
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ATLANTA NEEDS S GAY BARS NOW MORE THAN EVER
“We were so overwhelmed by the feelg of cln and energy the gay scene, ” says Smh, who lived wh his boyiend Nashville at the time. They cid the next day to move to Smh first disvered Atlanta’s gay nightlife, the scene was boomg wh dozens of plac to drk, dance, and watch drag.
“Gay bars felt like a safe space to open up the possibily of figurg out who you were. ” Doug Craft, a bartenr at Blake’s on the Park for 30 years, says the purpose of a gay bar transcends mere socializg: “I’ve felt like a unselor who helped others make the transn to self-acceptance. ”In the 1990s, lbians unted the Othersi Lounge and Revolutn as mastays, and the Black gay crowd equented the lik of Bulldogs.
“I’m not gog to argue wh the fact was segregated, but Atlanta was and is the gay pal of the South, and so, you went to the bars that tered to what you liked, ” says Reverend Dunn Teague, one of the first Black AIDS outreach workers for AID Atlanta. ”Yet as queer culture has gone mastream enough for the crosswalk near Blake’s to be repated as a rabow, the gay bar scene the cy and natnwi has ntracted.