The most famous 24-hour gay bar, Backstreet, and its infamous neighbor The Armory, closed more than a decade ago. There are not a majority gay men in every grocery store and restaurant from north from Ponce to Cheshire, and east from the Connector to Highland. Gone are the male prostitutes for male clients hanging out along Piedmont and West Peachtree north of 10th Street. It isn’t happening it already happened – a while ago. Whether that’s a bad thing or not, and the opinions vary widely with each gay person you ask, the de-gaying of the gayborhood is long over.
Then we spread out to make our mark on in-town places like East Atlanta Village and Old Fourth Ward, and every suburb within driving distance. We fixed up the place, and rich people moved in. What now? By Mike FlemingĪs some of the chatter goes, Midtown is being ruined by monied yuppies reversing the suburban flight of several decades ago, and gay Atlanta is suffering for it.
