Celebratg pri: how a raid on a movie theater helped propel Atlanta’s gay rights movement – WSB-TV Channel 2 - Atlanta

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• MAN SHOT MULTIPLE TIM DURG FIGHT OUTSI ATLANTA GAY BAR, POLICE SAY
• A MAN WAS SHOT MULTIPLE TIM DURG A FIGHT AT AN ATLANTA GAY BAR, POLICE SAID
• 5 PEOPLE SHOT NEAR ATLANTA NIGHTCLUB HOSTG BLACK GAY PRI EVENT
• FIVE SHOT ATTACK NEAR ATLANTA BLACK GAY PRI EVENT
• GAY MAN ‘FIGHTG FOR LIFE’ AFTER BEG FOUND BARELY BREATHG AFTER BTAL ATTACK
• MAN SHOT DURG FIGHT OUTSI OF GAY BAR FRIENDS ON PONCE
• GAY TEENS ATTACKED AT ATLANTA SCHOOL ‘JT A FIGHT AMONGST KIDS’ — NOT HATE CRIME: POLICE
• MARCHG FOR GAY RIGHTS ATLANTA, 1971: AN EXCERPT OM A NIGHT AT THE SWEET GUM HEAD
• TORPY AT LARGE: WHAT DID APD LEARN OM THE EAGLE GAY BAR FIAS?
• CELEBRATG PRI: HOW A RAID ON A MOVIE THEATER HELPED PROPEL ATLANTA’S GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• GEIA MAN FIGHTS FOR GAY RIGHTS U.S. SUPREME COURT 'HOTLANTA' SE
• 50 YEARS AGO, ATLANTA’S GAY RIGHTS PH TOOK TO STREET FOR FIRST TIME

MAN SHOT MULTIPLE TIM DURG FIGHT OUTSI ATLANTA GAY BAR, POLICE SAY

(FOX 5) ATLANTA - One man is reverg the hospal after a shootg outsi a popular Virgia-Highland gay bar early Wednday morng.

One man is reverg the hospal after a shootg outsi a popular gay bar Virgia Highlands early Wednday morng. At least five people staed gunshot wounds a shootg near an Atlanta nightclub hostg a black gay Pri event. Shots rang out around 6 am Monday (September 6) near The Marquette Lounge, a venue hostg a Lil Kim ncert as part of black gay Pri.

A MAN WAS SHOT MULTIPLE TIM DURG A FIGHT AT AN ATLANTA GAY BAR, POLICE SAID

Joshua Dowd, an openly gay Asian man, was btally attacked and found clgg to life wh a ser head jury on tra tracks Atlanta, Geia. Police Atlanta, Geia, are vtigatg after a gay Asian man was found clgg to life on tra tracks wh a ser head jury.

Fay and iends of Dowd said they believed the openly gay man’s sexual orientatn and race may have played a role the btal attack.

5 PEOPLE SHOT NEAR ATLANTA NIGHTCLUB HOSTG BLACK GAY PRI EVENT

They scribed the gay man as “kd”, “rg” and “spired” as well as a huge fan of Ariana Gran.

On Wednday morng, a man was shot multiple tim outsi the Atlanta gay bar Friends on Ponce.

Homophobic slurs shouted durg a fight at an Atlanta high school that wound at least one gay stunt wh a screwdriver, will not mer a hate or bias vtigatn, acrdg to least 100 stunts watched "a fight amongst kids" durg an April 20 scuffle outsi Carver High School, as scribed by Atlanta Police Department, spe a 16-year-old victim's claims that the attack was premedated bee of his sexual orientatn. "They don't like e we're gay, " victim Timothy Jefferson told WXIA—TV, showg off a gash on the right si of his face where one attacker allegedly sliced him wh a screwdriver. "They beatg them f-----s, " and "gay a-- n----r" are jt some of the profany-laced sults wns say they heard batted around the fight.

FIVE SHOT ATTACK NEAR ATLANTA BLACK GAY PRI EVENT

Both Jefferson and a send victim me out as gay 2013.

A police report filed on Tuday ially scribed the asslt as two iends beg jumped by a mob of 20 teens "bee they were gay, " though police spokwoman Elizabeth Espy said that's no longer the se, cg surveillance do not dispute his juri, but rather the fight's motive after the report funneled through the partment's LGBT liaison. This excerpt, as well as the acpanyg vio stills, centers the activism of Bill Smh, a central figure the foundg of Geia’s Gay Liberatn Front and a member of the Southeastern Gay Coaln. Smh served as the first out-gay man Atlanta cy ernment as Sam Massell’s appoted Communy Relatns Commissner (1973–1976) and played a key role the velopment of the Atlanta gay prs through his edorship and ownership of The Barb (1974–1977).

Adapted om the book A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Dgs, Dis, and Atlanta’s Gay Revolutn (New York: W. This st clus Frank Powell (who owned "more than a dozen gay bars" cludg the Sweet Gum Head om the late 1960s until his ath 1996), John Greenwell a.

GAY MAN ‘FIGHTG FOR LIFE’ AFTER BEG FOUND BARELY BREATHG AFTER BTAL ATTACK

Today, Amerin lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr people, and queers n get married. We n venture proudly and safely to the straight world outsi the nf of bars and clubs once signated specifilly as "gay spac.

Atlanta Gay Rights Alliance and others leadg the Pri para, Atlanta, Geia, June 27, 1977. Even those ci, gay bars were dangero and illic plac—but they were also the birthplace of the emergg gay rights movement. In the 1970s, Atlanta's cisy, electric re was the Sweet Gum Head nightclub, where an toxitg blend of drag, dgs, dis, and revolutn had a pivotal role ung Atlanta's gay civil-rights movement—and turng Stonewall's rebelln to art.

MAN SHOT DURG FIGHT OUTSI OF GAY BAR FRIENDS ON PONCE

A son of vout Baptists, Bill took a seat as a cy missner, then took over the most fluential gay newspaper the South, The Barb.

In the same summer of 1981 when the Sweet Gum Head closed, the New York Tim reported on a "rare ncer seen 41 homosexuals.

GAY TEENS ATTACKED AT ATLANTA SCHOOL ‘JT A FIGHT AMONGST KIDS’ — NOT HATE CRIME: POLICE

"As people fd out that you are a homosexual, there's a good chance that you may lose your job, " he said wh a b of a lilt his voice. He told dner-hour Atlanta how beg gay affected every aspect of his life, even outsi the bedroom. "The state will not hire homosexuals, " he said.

"The schools will not hire homosexuals.

MARCHG FOR GAY RIGHTS ATLANTA, 1971: AN EXCERPT OM A NIGHT AT THE SWEET GUM HEAD

The feral ernment will not hire homosexuals.

"1Bill Smh, terview by WSB-TV, "Gay Rights Prottors March Atlanta, " The Walter J. He spoke past that fear, directly to the more than 100, 000 gay men and women who lived Atlanta but had not e to monstrate, who uld lose everythg—jobs, church, fay—if they joed the first Gay Pri march Atlanta history.

2Uned Prs Internatnal, "50 Atlanta Mark Gay Liberatn Day, " Atlanta Journal Constutn.

TORPY AT LARGE: WHAT DID APD LEARN OM THE EAGLE GAY BAR FIAS?

"It is a new begng for the gay muny.

Very Gay, " Great Speckled Bird, July 5, 1971, 2. My Dire for History: Essays Gay, Communy, and Labor History.

Gay and Lbian Atlanta. "Htg Below the Bible Belt: The Development of the Gay Rights Movement Atlanta. Carry' On the Lbian and Gay South.

CELEBRATG PRI: HOW A RAID ON A MOVIE THEATER HELPED PROPEL ATLANTA’S GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South: An Oral History. The ps are loggg to puters to watch a turgid and termable trag vio that teach them about legal search and to law enforcement, hardly anythg is more basic and the product rolled out by the police force, which was urt-orred, shows eher a partmental disda for learng, or a cy law partment’s thumbg s nose at a pky lawyer named Dan Grossman, who, like a terrier, grabbed hold of the cy’s ankle eight years ago and hasn’t let ’s go back to the September 2009, durg the last (real) mayoral electn, Atlanta police raid a gay bar on Ponce Leon Avenue and ma ham-hand policg a red-hot mpaign issue. Perhaps the gay bar raid was a new twist on an old the lawsu settlement me a mayoral apology and a cy vow to nduct proper trag as to when ps uld legally go through people’s pockets, rs and hom.

Its impact here was ltle more than one month after a police raid at New York Cy gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, and the ristance that followed. The subsequent five days of protts jumpstarted the gay rights movement.

GEIA MAN FIGHTS FOR GAY RIGHTS U.S. SUPREME COURT 'HOTLANTA' SE

But the ti had permanently shifted as beme clear when Gay Liberatn grew rapidly the g years.

5, 1969, the Atlanta Police Department entered a screeng of Lonome Cowboys, a homoerotic unrground edy directed by Andy Warhol. Many of the dience members—targeted for beg “known homosexuals”—were harassed, photographed, and arrted.

50 YEARS AGO, ATLANTA’S GAY RIGHTS PH TOOK TO STREET FOR FIRST TIME

The gay muny had been harassed by police Geia many tim before, but for police to raid a movie theater was regard as a particularly powerful image of vlatn.