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The Kodak Building and the Atlanta Eagle on Ponce de Leon Avenue, 2021. The Atlanta Eagle is a gay bar that was established in Atlanta in the mid-1980s. According to a 2020 report by the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation, the bar had become "a place of prominence in the LGBTQ community, significant as a site for public social interaction".
The Otherside Lounge bombing was a domestic terrorist pipe bombing attack that occurred on February 21, 1997, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. At approximately 9:45 p.m., a bomb exploded at the Otherside Lounge lesbian bar that damaged the building and destroyed several cars in the parking lot. While no one was killed, five people were ...
In 1974, local activist Bill Smith founded the Atlanta Barb, the state's first gay newspaper. In 1976, the Atlanta Gay Center was first opened. In 1978, the Southern Baptist Convention's hosting of a speaking engagement by anti-gay activist Anita Bryant at the Georgia World Congress center drew a rally of over 4,000. In 1983, the Atlanta ...
Chris, a 26-year-old Atlanta resident who asked that his last name not be published out of fear of retaliation by the people who harmed him, said he was robbed of roughly $13,500 after visiting ...
February 7, 2024 at 6:34 PM. Two men say they were each robbed of tens of thousands of dollars after going to the same Atlanta sports bar on different nights by criminals who gained access to ...
Atlanta Pride, also colloquially (and formerly) called the Atlanta Gay Pride Festival, is a week-long annual lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender ( LGBT) pride festival held in Atlanta, Georgia ( United States ). Established in 1971, it is one of the oldest and largest pride festivals in the United States. [1] [2] According to the Atlanta Pride ...
My Sister's Room ( MSR) is a lesbian bar in Atlanta, Georgia. It is one of the few remaining lesbian bars in the nation. [1] It was opened in 1996 and remains a lesbian-owned and operated bar but welcomes the entire LGBTQIA community. [2] Pictures of My Sister's Room in the 1990s are in Emory University 's permanent photo collection.
The Atlanta Limelight opened in February 1980. It was housed in a strip mall at the former site of the Harlequin Dinner Theatre. The Limelight in Atlanta was a high-profile Euro-style night club designed and built in partnership with a certain Guy Larente from Montreal, Quebec who helped in the build of the Limelight series.