It’s several days before the official start of Black Gay Pride, but already Darrell Williams is buzzed on the spirit...
Up to 15 people representing a cross section of Atlanta will be named to Atlanta’s “Working Group on Prostitution” to make recommendations to the city to find ways to curb illegal sex work.
At the Feb. 25 Atlanta City Council Public Safety Committee work session, the city’s Chief Operating Officer Duriya Farooqui made a request to put a hold on the proposed “banishment ordinance” so that she and Michael Julian Bond, chair of the Public Safety Committee, could appoint members to the working group.
The city’s backing off of the banishment ordinance, proposed by Atlanta Police Chief George Turner, came after stiff backlash from social justice activists, including many LGBTQ activists.
Two men who were robbed at gunpoint Tuesday night after leaving Blake's on the Park helped police catch their alleged assailants.
Fabian Gutierrez and Michael Davis were robbed at the corner off 10th Street and Charles Allen Drive as they walked to Gutierrez' apartment from Blake's on the Park, according to an Atlanta Police Department report.
The men had seen a white mini-van pass them moments before. They saw two men get out of the van – one in a white shirt, one in a black shirt — then split up. Then the two suspects approached them. The man in the black shirt put a handgun to Gutierrez' head as they searched both victims' pockets and stole Gutierrez' iPhone.
"The suspects then took off south toward 8th Street as Gutierrez followed," the police report stated.
The Fifth Ivory Public House at the corner of Juniper and 10th Street is the kind of restaurant mash-up that requires several slashes in its description.
Piano bar / Southern kitchen / Irish pub might suffice, but to gay owner Aaron Born, the Midtown eatery’s hodgepodge is something much simpler: good, affordable food and drinks in comfortable surrounds with live piano six nights per week.
“It’s supposed to be a home,” Born says.
The restaurant, which was voted GA Voice’s 2012 “Best New Restaurant,” is a shared dream between Born and his longtime friend and now business partner Cam Murphy.
The Health Initiative today announced plans for its annual Fall Garden Party fundraiser. The event, now in its 17th year, will again be held at Midtown's Einstein's on Sept. 23 from 4 - 8 p.m.
Among the festivities this year, the Health Initiative will honor the Atlanta Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence for their work in the community with the Healing Angel Award.
Linda Ellis, executive director of Health Initiative, said the Atlanta Sisters were deserving of the honor for their work in LGBT advocacy across Atlanta.
“The Sisters are extremely deserving of this honor," Ellis said in a statement. "They spend countless hours working for the well-being of the community and we are excited to offer them this type of recognition for their efforts.”