There, you have Blake’s, the 10th & Piedmont restaurant, X, and if you go up from there you have Midtown Moon, which used to be called Burkhart's. When people think of LGBTQ in Atlanta, they think of Midtown-so obviously things like the rainbow crosswalks at the intersection of 10th and Piedmont. I realized that I don't have to move to Oakland or Brooklyn to be visible and safe and happy.
Having moved to Atlanta in 2011 from Middle Georgia, the first few years of me going to events here-whether it was going to drag shows, going to the ballroom scene, seeing people vogue, or seeing a lot of the earlier protests to protect trans people-really just like shed a light on me and showed me that this community is so beautiful and so vibrant.