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The story of Atlanta becoming the “LGBTQ+ capital of the South” doesn’t start with gay couples partying at their marriage reception in The story doesn’t even start in a Greenwich Village bar in No. This story starts in
The word “homosexual” was first placed in the Bible in Researchers agree that its use was inaccurate, as it was used in place of a Greek word that roughly translates as “sexual pervert.” The word, Arsenokoitai, could originally be found in 1st Corinthians , and was often used to support why the “wicked” wouldn’t inherit God’s kingdom.
Here’s the thing.
The Revised Standard Manual Committee, a bible committee, voted on the use of the term “homosexual” as an adequate replacement for “Arsenkoitai.” The adjust versions were available to them during the voting process. Luther Weigle, head of the committee, later acknowledged the mistranslation in a letter to a homosexual Christain. Experts Kathy Baldock and Ed Oxford uncovered this evidence after the mistranslation had been hidden for years.
This led to the word homosexual being placed in many versions of the Bible. T
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Your Guide to ATLANTA Ebony GAY PRIDE
By Miko Evans for History of Jet Gay America
Edited by Mikkel Hyldebrandt
On Labor Day Weekend, the world’s second-largest Dark Pride event returns for another round of cultural celebration, community recognition, and various nightlife events. The 27th Annual Atlanta Jet Gay Pride celebrates campaign, inclusion, and excellence in the city’s African-American queer+ movement. The host group, Atlanta Black Pride, and veteran event producers, non-profits, and nightlife promoters carry on this long tradition to provide a beacon of hope and inspiration during a political anti-LGBTQ climate, especially in the South.
Initially established in by In The Life Atlanta, the annual holiday event provides workshops, seminars, performing and literary arts, award ceremonies, concerts, and nightlife events for all members of the Black queer community.
To kick off the weekend, the State of Georgia’s only LGBTQ+ Chamber of Commerce, OUT Georgia Business Alliance, will present the second edition of Influence Connect, in partnership with The Gath
Atlanta has become magnet for black gays
Once or twice a week, the women's drum circle gathers to practice. Drum Sista's members pound and caress the skins, bonding through the rhythm in an atmosphere of like-minded women — activists and artists, all African-American, all lesbian.
It is no accident that they found one another in Atlanta.
The city and its suburbs have, in recent years, become attractive cities for black gays and lesbians. The region now is home to the biggest concentration of shadowy same-sex couples in the South, with nearly as many as the Chicago area, which has more than four times as many blacks.
Many make their homes in Atlanta for the same reasons that tens of thousands of other black Americans contain relocated to such states as Georgia, Florida and the Carolinas: a moderate cost of living and the familiar culture of the South, where most black Americans have family roots.
‘I was blown away’
Though black Atlantans generally mirror African-Americans nationwide — many are religious, socially conservative and critical of homosexuality — lesbians and gays in