Atlanta also hosts one of the world’s largest Black Gay Pride festivals each year over Labor Day weekend. The city’s enormous annual Pride celebration began in 1971 and today brings in hundreds of thousands of revelers to the city, with a deluge of events happening around Piedmont Park each autumn. Photo © Jason Reidy, licensed Creative Commons Attribution.Ītlanta has long been recognized as the gay capital of the Southeast, a tolerant oasis that draws queer residents and tourists from all over the country.
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