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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.

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.

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

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.

5 PEOPLE SHOT NEAR ATLANTA NIGHTCLUB HOSTG BLACK GAY PRI EVENT

"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.

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.

FIVE SHOT ATTACK NEAR ATLANTA BLACK GAY PRI EVENT

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. Today, Amerin lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr people, and queers n get married.

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Atlanta Gay Rights Alliance and others leadg the Pri para, Atlanta, Geia, June 27, 1977.

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

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.

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.

MAN SHOT DURG FIGHT OUTSI OF GAY BAR FRIENDS ON PONCE

"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.

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.

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

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

"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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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. 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. 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. The Stonewall rts and the Lonome Cowboys raid motivated Atlanta’s Gay Liberatn movement, leadg many the LGBTQ muny to bee more darg their activism.

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

Followg the raid, activist members of Atlanta’s LGBTQ muny met at the New Morng Café Emory Village and formed the Geia Gay Liberatn Front. The group quickly got to work, registerg LGBTQ people to vote, prottg anti-gay laws, and anizg the first Atlanta Pri event 1971. They found each other through tun and tried their bt to be gno as they ma their way to gay-iendly bars and rtrants.

Allen Jon’ terview for The Unspoken Past: Atlanta Lbian and Gay History, 1940–1970 oral history project. “All gay people only went downtown way after dark, so nobody uld see them.

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

After the raid, Atlanta beme the home of many gay nightclubs and bars, such as Backstreet, one of the most proment Atlanta gay nightclubs.

Over the years, Backstreet moved away om terg to a whe gay male clientele and beme a gatherg place for diverse members of the LGBTQ muny. Durg the 1970s, the efforts of Atlanta’s gay rights activists and changg social attus allowed the cy to lay claim to beg the Gay Mec of the South. Only five years after Atlanta’s first small pri para, Mayor Maynard Jackson proclaimed Gay Pri Day 1976.

- Months after jog the gay-iendly Hotlanta Softball League, Gerald Bostock was out of a job a Geia unty ernment office and was nvced he had bee the victim of workplace discrimatn based on his sexual of his job as an advote for children ught up the juvenile jtice system Clayton County suburban Atlanta, Bostock said he was shocked when he was abptly fired 2013, an actn that figur promently a major LGBTQ rights fight g before the U.