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More bars opened during the s, and then after gay liberation took hold, the bar scene floourished. And they would have eight to ten entertainers. You had choreographers, seamstresses, and costume designers for the prooduction work we did. Charlie Brown, March 26, I think the whole gay city was terrorized.

On February 21,a bomb was detonated at the bar, injuring five people. It was later proven that Eric Rudolph was the perpetrator.

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The bar reopened after the bombing, but never truly recovered, and closed two years later. Even Backstreet, which would have been the biggest bar at the time, would sometimes ask African Americans for two or three forms of ID rather than just the one that they may or may not ask of a white person, and there were the white bars and there were the black bars.

And then we also worked on the Atlanta Anti-Discrimination Project to make sure it got instituted in the gay bars, because they had been, in their carding policies, and who they would allow in, and that kind of stuff. In Atlanta, there is a long history of mistrust between the gay community and the police.

Many gays claimed that they were victims of police entrapment. They also felt that police officers were slow to respond to their calls from gay crime victims. A edition of Cruise magazine highlighted perceived abuses. Eight people were arrested, but charges were either dropped or dismissed.

As part of the settlement, Atlanta agreed to provide better training for its police officers. However, the city was very slow to comply.