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Atlanta Gay Bars

Atlanta's gay nightlife scene is always diverse and always buzzing with a whole range of venues. The city's longstanding same-sex attracted institutions offer a home from house for a entertainment crowd of locals, while newer bars and clubs provide thumping music and lively parties for the younger crowd. Popular lounges enable you relax with new friends, frequent drag shows and renowned DJs create for a wilder night, or you can explore the smaller and more divey bars in search of a hidden gem. So dance, mingle, and enjoy yourself in this unique and quirky scene.

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Bear, Fetish, Older Crowd, Outdoor Seating

This low-key gay leather lock is fairly unassuming but hidden inside is a steamy dance floor, hotter men, and three fully stocked bars. There's even a leather shop on site so there's no excuses not to have some fun with the guys you just met, and if you need to you can fresh off on the deck. Whether you like hot leather men, guys in rubber or gear, bears and cubs, you'll find a guy for you here.

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BJ Roosters

Older Crowd, Cocktails, Sports, Dancing

BJ's has been a staple in Atlanta's gay nightlife sc

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Georgia Regional Pageant

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"After nearly 30 years in Midtown, fans of legendary queer bar Backstreet dread the party could be over" (2004)

Bartenders are used to hearing confessions, but Backstreet's Jim Brooker was nearly floored by something a customer recently shared.

"I was waiting on this 21-year-old teen who just matter-of- factly told me, 'I just devotion Backstreet --- my parents met here,' " Brooker recalled with a shudder, his eyebrows shooting skyward.

"Let me narrate you, honey, I almost fell down behind the bar! I didn't desire to know anything else. I was afraid that I might have gone with her daddy at some point!"

Now, on the cusp of its 30th anniversary, Backstreet might have poured its last drink. The city's oldest lgbtq+ bar and one of its limited 24/7 spots --- which opened when gays were mostly closeted and grew into a regional institution with a national reputation as "always open and pouring" --- was shuttered July 17, after years of neighbors' complaints and fights with Metropolis Hall. Unless it wins a death-row pardon from Mayor Shirley Franklin within 90 days, the Peachtree Street landmark will exist only in the memories o

Queer Midtown: How Atlanta Became an Epicenter of Same-sex attracted Life

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Published: 04/06/23

BY JASON ARNOLD

Atlanta has long held the nickname of the gay epicenter of the South, due to so many members of the LGBTQ+ society from small towns in neighboring states moving to Atlanta to find their place among their kindred spirits. For decades, gay people flocked to Midtown for weekend jaunts to some of the South’s most legendary bars, (Backstreet, anyone?) and Pride festivities, first in June to and later when the events were moved to October to coincide with “National Coming Out Day.” Midtown and Atlanta were synonymous with being same-sex attracted, and though the group is more spread out over the metro area today, Midtown, with its iconic rainbow crosswalk, is still regarded as the center of gay Atlanta.

Atlanta Had Its Own Stonewall

Long before the pride festivals, bars and restaurants, the first recorded instance of what we would regard Atlanta’s gay history goes all the way assist to the “Cotton States and International Exposition of 1895,” with the first known female impersonation taking place in Piedmont Park. 

But the s