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The Texas metros don't even score a 100 on the Equality scale. That automatically puts Miami and Atlanta ahead of these cities.
Atlanta has been known as a gay capital for a very long time now. Top 3 for gay percentage of population just behind SF and Seattle. Atlanta Gay pride festival is very large. One of the few southern cities to score a 100 on the Equality municipal scale. It was even progressive enough in the 70s to get heavy rail transportation, something that was new to the South.
The Texas metros don't even score a 100 on the Equality scale. That automatically puts Miami and Atlanta ahead of these cities.
Atlanta has been known as a gay capital for a very long time now. Top 3 for gay percentage of population just behind SF and Seattle. Atlanta Gay pride festival is very large. One of the few southern cities to score a 100 on the Equality municipal scale. It was even progressive enough in the 70s to get heavy rail transportation, something that was new to the South.
It is quite strange how Houston, and Miami proper have such low scores on that scale, yet more conservative cities like Fort Worth, or San Antonio score higher. Especially Houston, with its Lesbian mayor, being the largest city to have one.
Then again, Houston's election of Annise Parker, ironically, might have been the reason for the city's low score, in the sense that her election was seen as a very huge achievement in gay equality (being the largest city to elect a Lesbian mayor) and thus, the city didn't have much of a drive to improve in all the LGBT services ranked in the scale, due to being satisfied with such an achievement.
People need to be reminded that out lesbian Cathy Woolard became City Council President in 2001, and gay Asian-American City Councilman Alex Wan is currently in his 2nd term in Atlanta.
It's not really easy to downplay Atlanta's liberal/progressive soul, but some continue to try.
People need to be reminded that out lesbian Cathy Woolard became City Council President in 2001, and gay Asian-American City Councilman Alex Wan is currently in his 2nd term in Atlanta.
It's not really easy to downplay Atlanta's liberal/progressive soul, but some continue to try.
Atlanta was the only major Southern city during the 20th century which twice elected a documented Klansman as mayor in Walter Sims. Known as the birthplace of the modern Klan, what's largely unknown is that Atlanta was also the birthplace of the nation's first Neo-Nazi organization in 1946 in The Columbians. During that same period Atlanta patrolman/Klansman John " Itchy Trigger Finger " Nash killed dozens of black Atlantans and you won't find a single article about him from an Atlanta news outlet. A progressive facade not a progressive soul...with the Confederate flag debate being a hot topic recently you'd think that Atlantans would be calling for the removal of Georgia's " First National Flag of the Confederacy " state flag...Not at all!!!
Atlanta was the only major Southern city during the 20th century which twice elected a documented Klansman as mayor in Walter Sims. Known as the birthplace of the modern Klan, what's largely unknown is that Atlanta was also the birthplace of the nation's first Neo-Nazi organization in 1946 in The Columbians. During that same period Atlanta patrolman/Klansman John " Itchy Trigger Finger " Nash killed dozens of black Atlantans and you won't find a single article about him from an Atlanta news outlet. A progressive facade not a progressive soul...with the Confederate flag debate being a hot topic recently you'd think that Atlantans would be calling for the removal of Georgia's " First National Flag of the Confederacy " state flag...Not at all!!!
Nice Atlanta bashing but I could add that when I was in school there, they held a yearly Klan march in North Atlanta and the crowd that turned out to jeer and throw bottles was 10x the number of marchers.
I think the question applies to Today's Atlanta - which is quite a progressive place with both a multinational and multiethnic population (including LGBT) that is mostly at rest with its citizens despite lingering economic issues that are pervasive to all big cities.
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