Out Georgia hosts a virtual 2021 kickoff on Friday. (2019 photo by Russ Bowen-Youngblood)
Whether you’re online and in PJs or in person and in a mask, LGBTQ weekend events in Atlanta are ready for you. Sundance is screening, groups are gathering, and clubs are thumping.
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Friday, Jan. 29
Out Georgia 2021 Kickoff. The LGBTQ business group hosts a free online event to talk plans and priorities, followed by breakout groups for networking. Registration required @ Zoom, 5:30 p.m. Have you heard about their new LGBTQ charity fund?
Friday BBQ. Atlanta’s gay sports bar is going long for customers with in-person and to-go food and cocktails. Fridays are extra special with a taste escape to backyard ‘cues @ Woofs, 11:30 a.m. – 10 p.m.
Protest attended by 150 people came after man was arrested in park by undercover police
A Gay Liberation Front march to Trafalgar Square in 1972. Photo: LSE Library
THE first gay rights protest in the UK has been celebrated 50 years on at an event in Highbury Fields.
The park in Islington was a popular cruising spot in 1970 when Louis Eaks, a Young Liberals member, was arrested by undercover policemen for “importuning for an immoral purpose”.
In protest at his treatment by police, the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) held the first LGBT demonstration, which was attended by 150 people. A plaque was erected in 2000 close to where Mr Eaks was arrested.