Gay Pride Day renamed Lesbian, Gay, Transperson Pride Day 1,200 people attend the annual march. Some 200 people show up for the first “Hotlanta Raft Race” down the Chattahoochee, an annual event eventually attracting gays and lesbians from around the country.
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Shortly after Channel 11 runs a series on male prostitution, the Fulton County Solicitor issues warrants for the arrest of three gay owners and employees of local gay publications Score and Cruise Weekly on charges of distributing obscene materials.Ītlanta’s annual Gay Pride Day parade celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.
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Gil Robison, Liz Throop, Beth Coonan and other gay activists form the city’s first gay political action committee, calling it the First Tuesday Democratic Club.Īpproximately 1,800 to 2,000 Atlanta gay men, lesbians, and their supporters from a coalition of human rights groups picket Anita Bryant’s keynote speech to the Southern Baptist Convention’s conference at the Georgia World Congress Center.įirst meeting of Atlanta’s Liberal Religious Gay Council. Patrick Cuccaro and Michael Chafin produce the first gay male theater piece shown in Atlanta, “The Boys in the Band” at Buckhead’s Academy Theatre.Īn estimated 1,500 people march in the local Pride Parade, with an estimated 3,000 attending the rally at the parade’s conclusion. The Georgia Gay Liberation Front folds due to internal dissent and public disinterest.Ītlanta resident Linda Bryant opens, in Little 5 Points, Charis Books and More, the first lesbian/feminist bookstore in the Southeast.īill Smith begins publishing The Barb, a free gay newspaper distributed in gay bars locally and elsewhere until 1983.Ītlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson officially proclaims Gay Pride Day in Atlanta. John for putting flyers advertising Gay Pride activities in newsroom mailboxes. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution fires employee Charles St. John to the city’s Community Relations Commission, the first appointment by a city official of a spokesperson for local gay and lesbian communities. The GLF organizes Atlanta’s first permit-authorized Gay Pride March, with 125-150 people participating.įirst meeting of the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA), a major force in the local lesbian community for the next two decades.Ītlanta mayor Sam Massell appoints Charles St. Local activists form a Georgia chapter of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF). One of them, a minister, files a $500,000 lawsuit against the police.
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Atlanta police raid George Ellis’ Film Forum, which was showing Andy Warhol’s movie “Lonesome Cowboys,” and take photos of audience members.