When the lights went up, officers started snapping pictures of the 70 or so patrons in the crowd, who then cleared the theater according to a Village Voice article about the incident. ![]() That evening at what used to be the Ansley Mall Mini Cinema, the APD raided a screening of Andy Warhol’s “Lonesome Cowboys,” which featured gay sex scenes among other things. LGBT people across the country were simmering, Atlanta included-everyone was at the ready to ignite their city’s movement.Īnd-not for the last time-it was the Atlanta Police Department that lit the fuse. ![]() It was August 5, 1969, barely a month after New York City’s Stonewall Riots kicked off the modern LGBT rights movement in America.
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