Atlanta barb (Atlanta, Ga.) 1973-????, June 01, 1974, Image 1

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Name The Barb And Win $50.00 in Cash For Details See Page No. 3 “THE GROOVY NEWSPAPER SERVING ATLANTA AND THE SOUTHEAST 9 VOL. 1 NO. 5 P.O. Box 82543 Atlanta, Georgia 30354 Phone 363-4789 25 CENTS Atlanta Celebrates Gay Pride Week makes its fourth annual ap pearance in Atlanta June 21st thru 30th. Each cele bration has been a grow ing experience for the gay community and the city as a whole. The first Gay Pride Week Celebration in 1971 was met by ap prehension from both the gay and straight commun ities. Over one hundred people marched down Atlanta’s famous Peach tree Street to Piedmont Park. Gay people were pleasantly surprized by their public reception. Our second Gay Pride Week was highlighted by Mayor Sam Massell’s announcement that the City of Atlanta would not discriminate against gay people in city services. The third annual Gay Pride Week was a com bined effort of theMetro- politan. Community Church. Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance, the Georgia Gay Liberation Front and the South eastern Gay Coalition. This year the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Al liance. the Gay Infor mation Service and the Metropolitan Community Church are sponsoring the Gay Pride Week Cele bration. Each organiza tion. seperately and jointly is organizing ac tivities during the week. Gay Pride Week 1973 to emphasize community awareness. In the past, many of the celebration activities have been aimed at making the straight community a- ware of gay people and our efforts to acheive e- quality. This year more emphasis is being placed on bringing gay people together as a commun ity. The sponsors will hold a press conference on June 21st for the straight media and activities will begin with the ALFA Omega's Gay Nineties Carnival. Bringing back the backyard and neigh borhood feeling of America at the turn of the century, the ALFA people will bring you an afternoon of happenings and good times. ALFA and GIS will hold open houses on Tuesday and Thursday evenings re spectively. Each or ganization will help you to understand what they are doing and exchange ideas on what can be done to forward the work of both organizations. On Wednesday evening the MCC will host a discus sion lecture on Homosex uality and the law. Friday and Saturday will be party days with a Planner’s Party on Fri day and a picnic in the park on Saturday. MCC will host the closing act ivities of Gay Pride Week Celebration '74. Sunday with their regular 2:00 P.M. worship service, a special memorial service for the New Orlean’s fire victims on the first an niversary of that tragic fire, and a very special movie to send us off into the year. Join with your friends during the last week of June to explore the gay community as it grows and expands. Gay Pride Week 1973 Gay Pride Week Schedule Of Events In This Issue Page No. 5 if Late News Bulletin if Atlanta, Ga. - Thursday evening June 6,1974 one of our reporters spoke to an ex-waitress at Denny’s Restaurant, located on Monroe Drive in Atlanta He was told that the waitress and other em ployees were allegedly fired for encouraging homosexuals to patronize this particular restaurant. This particular restau rant has long been known as a “meeting and eating” place for members of the gay community, who are outraged and shocked at the management’s at titude toward gay people. It seems they don’t mind taking our money - but af ter that still consider us to be second class citi zens. We understand that the leaders in the gay com munity are taking a course of action against this discriminatory at titude of management. The prejudices we en dured in the past are no longer the fervor of the future.