A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
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In A Night at the Sweet Gum Head, journalist Martin Padgett tells Atlanta’s overlooked queer history during the disco decade [Atlanta Magazine] A Q&A with the author and an excerpt from the book [includes a guest appearance from Burt Reynolds]. But Atlanta has so much more inside.
The Stonewall of the South That History Forgot [Smithsonian] A month after the riots in New York, a raid on an Atlanta movie theater sparked a gay liberation movement of its own.
Out Magazine gives A Short Retelling of Atlanta's Long — But Radical — Queer History There’s a reason why the city is known as the LGBTQ+ capital of the South.
From Whence We Came: Our LGBTQ ATL History [Georgia Voice] is a sweeping timeline going back to 1826. [titillating details!] They also offer Portrait of a community: An LGBT Atlanta timeline, more focussed on post-Stonewall Atlanta.
Just last year Atlanta began putting up historical markers on LGBTQ places of note: Preserving Atlanta’s gay history [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
Atlanta is preserving its gay past with the LGBT Collections at the Kenan Research Center with the help of the Atlanta Lesbian and Gay History Thing, Inc. A brief overview of the collection here, and a link to the collection. Very little is digitized, but at least when you go there to look at stuff, you'll know what boxes to ask for!
The Stonewall of the South That History Forgot [Smithsonian] A month after the riots in New York, a raid on an Atlanta movie theater sparked a gay liberation movement of its own.
Out Magazine gives A Short Retelling of Atlanta's Long — But Radical — Queer History There’s a reason why the city is known as the LGBTQ+ capital of the South.
From Whence We Came: Our LGBTQ ATL History [Georgia Voice] is a sweeping timeline going back to 1826. [titillating details!] They also offer Portrait of a community: An LGBT Atlanta timeline, more focussed on post-Stonewall Atlanta.
Just last year Atlanta began putting up historical markers on LGBTQ places of note: Preserving Atlanta’s gay history [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
Atlanta is preserving its gay past with the LGBT Collections at the Kenan Research Center with the help of the Atlanta Lesbian and Gay History Thing, Inc. A brief overview of the collection here, and a link to the collection. Very little is digitized, but at least when you go there to look at stuff, you'll know what boxes to ask for!
Too much of this history was already gone by the time I was an adult, nearly 20 years after the fact. I spent many hours with friends at the Tempo Parkway and Lindmont, but I was too shy to go to clubs with them, so I was never really part of what was happening. I only ever really travelled around the edges of the scene. Sincere thanks for this, hippybear.
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