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Being in the military prepared me for a lot of things, but not my HIV diagnosis. I found it difficult to take medication every day. Fortunately, with the help of my doctor at the VA, taking my medicine is just another part of my morning routine, brush my teeth, wash my face, and take my meds. By sticking to my medication, doctor visits and support groups, I stay healthy and happy. As a support group leader, now I’m helping others to get into their own routine.

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Broadway at Burks

A Very Sordid Wedding

You are the show when the Out Front Theatre gays take over one of Atlanta’s favorite gay bars for a monthly live performance competition. Finale winner gets their own cabaret show at Out Front.

Bring your pipes for the first theme in June, ‘Grease.’

The movie that fans of Sordid Lives have been waiting on for is finally here, courtesy Atlanta’s own Out on Film.

See what’s up with Brother Boy and the rest of the family from the gay classic with a huge chunk of the original cast in the roles they created.

Wednesday, June 28 Burkhart’s 1492 Piedmont Road NE burkharts.com

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Queer Drunk History

Glam Slam with Marco Marco

Music of the Beatles finds ‘LOVE’ backwards in ‘revolution’ for your entertainment. Join the Pride Month concert of the Atlanta Gay Men’s Chorus. The show also features costumes, choreography and multi-media effects. Be there as AGMC gets fabulous and far-out!!

Those Wussy queers are always working up new things to do, and this one breaks another mold. Come for a version of drunk history and improv that features an allqueer cast and special guest performances by local favorite drag queens. Advance tickets recommended.

Join the new monthly event that blends fashion into your dance party. Multiple designers show off their wares, Boy Next Door sponsors, plus traveling hosts and performances with cool cred hit the scene with DJ King Atlas and so much more.

Friday, June 30 & Saturday, July 1

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Village Theatre 349 Decatur St. SE villagecomedy.com

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DANCE PARTIES AND THE ANNUAL ATLANTA BEAR FEST TURN IT OUT FOR ONE FIRECRACKER OF A FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND

BY MIKE FLEMING Catch your breath if you can, boys. Even as we try to settle down from a packed Stonewall Month, promoters are turning you every which way but loose for Fourth of July.

Beyond the meat that you’re 50 percent more likely to consume this weekend, Atlanta Bear Fest brings the beef, and two clubs put the dance in your independence. Here are your best gay bets to ensure an awesome holi-gay weekend.

BEAR-Y NICE With a theme this year of Pirates of the Bearribbean, the Southern Bears group returns with its signature event. Burly guys from all over descend on Atlanta for four days of fun by the pool, on the grounds and in the rooms of the Courtyard Atlanta Executive Park.

Kick things off on Friday then shuttle to the Eagle for shenanigans. Saturday really gets going with vendors and a DJ by the pool, specialty parties and the Bubba Bang at the Eagle.

The fun continues on Sunday, when everything you liked by the pool on Saturday gets its ante upped, plus a Barbecue Beer Bust at Eagle.

LET’S GET DANCE-Y The LGBT-ATL is never more than a day away from a dance party, but July 4thcomes with an extra excuse to shake your groove thing. This year, the holiday is on Tuesday, which means more to love if you take off Monday and go hard with the extra time to recover.

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Get your “IndepenDANCE” on at Heretic and Jungle, Eagle, and keep flipping our pages for even more Fourth of July celebrations at all your favorite gay bars.

QUICK LOOK Let’s review: Bears all weekend, multiple dancing-queen opportunities, and your own barbecue-fireworks shenanigans. Happy Independence Weekend, y’all!

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And speaking of forward thinking, as the unborn antichrist grows in her exomorphic belly, Mrs. Woodhouse is asked her due date. “June the 28th,” she replies.

June the 28th? June the 28th.

Guess what happened the next year on June the 28th.

YOU SAY IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY

BY SCOTT KING

MIA FARROW, GAY RIGHTS AND ME. THE HISTORY OF JUNE 28.

I WAS BORN ON JUNE 28, 19--.

Don’t ask me my age! That’s rude.

Let’s just say Britney Spears and I both turned 18 in the same year.

Colin Farrell was waiting, patiently.

I share a birth date with Gilda Radner, Kathy Bates, Mel Brooks, Johns Elway and Cusack (so butch), Henry VIII, Rosemary’s Baby, Elon Musk and ... The Stonewall Riots.

Everyone places Stonewall on the eve of June 27, 1969. And some say something like, “You see, all the drag queens had gone uptown to the viewing after Judy Garland’s funeral at Riverside Church. And they couldn’t get in because of homophobia, so they matched downtown to drown their sorrows at The Stonewall Inn. When the police tried to raid the bar and the vice squad tried to arrest them just for being there, they had had enough and flipped a wig and rioted, and the rest is history.”

Have you ever tried to walk from the Upper West side to the West Village? In heels? I’m guessing they took cabs. Also, the riots didn’t occur until after midnight, and those queens were protesting and holding court all day Saturday, June 28 – the best day of the year for me and the gay rights revolution to be born.

SPEAKING OF BIRTHS, IN JUNE 1968, a year before the Stonewall riots, a beautiful, Oscar-winning film called Rosemary’s Baby was released. Peggy Olsen and Don Draper each saw it twice.

In this film, Mia Farrow’s character, Rosemary Woodhouse, carries to term what may (or may not) be the spawn of Satan. Damn that tannis root!

Rosemary also gets a new haircut. When her husband incredulously asks what she has done to her beautiful locks, she sheepishly replies, “Don’t you like it?

It’s the latest style from Vidal Sassoon.”

So ahead of her time.

Kind of.

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It was Year Zero for a new idea. The idea that LGBT citizens were not perverts or sissies or spiritual serfs to be trampled on by the machinery of night. It was the first time anything resembling the fight for queer rights received national press attention and coverage.

This may not seem like a big deal, but let’s remember this was 1969, long before Al Gore invented the Internet or Donald Trump won an election with the aid of Twitter. This was also an era before entertainment news and reality television “stars.” This was a time when national reporting only reported things that were significant to the nation, as the editors saw it.

OVER THE COURSE OF THE DECADE following Stonewall, the well-oiled machine of the gay rights movement was marching every June in remembrance of that fateful summer night.

They had also convinced the American Psychological Association to remove homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses. The movement defeated the likes of Anita Bryant in both Florida and California, and had had productive meetings with President Jimmy Carter and 1980 Presidential candidate Ted Kennedy.

Fast forward 36 years or so. Britney Spears and I are both doing well, enjoying creative and spiritual maturity and looking better than ever. And dang that new Lorde album is good! The 50th anniversary of Stonewall is right around the corner.

So this year, take time to soak up some sun, march in a Pride parade, help me celebrate my birthday, and appreciate the LGBTQ civil rights pioneers who fought for our right to do things like publish this magazine.

And if you haven’t seen Rosemary’s Baby yet, do it! It’s all the rage.

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birthdays. I’d say hello and it ended there.

By that point, my anger towards him maintained a rolling boil that stayed firmly in place for years. The distance between was both our faults. He was consumed with his own life, and I held his poor parenting choices against him. Neither of us tried.

OH, FATHER

BY CHRIS VIZZINI

ONCE YOUR DAD DIES, THERE ARE NO MORE ANSWERS TO ‘WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN?’ LIKE MANY OTHER GAY MEN AND women, I have a complicated relationship with my father. I got the sense he never accepted my being gay. We’d only sincerely spoken about it once, to which he said with puzzled disapproval, “I just don’t understand it.”

He left when I was 3 years old. I knew I had a dad, but he wasn’t there, unlike most of my friends’ dads.

After leaving, he began picking up my brother and me on Sundays. We’d go to the park, an arcade or to the movies.

They were wonderful Sundays. We’d stand at the park and marvel at nature’s beauty, and he’d put his hand down the back of my shirt and rub my shoulders.

It could only be described as love.

He then met and married a woman named Lynne and Sundays changed forever. They became something to fear. My brother and I would dress up and wait. By noon, we knew he wasn’t coming. That began a painful ritual of changing back into our ordinary clothes and wondering why.

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allowed us to sit on their bed watching old movies she loved. This did not last long with my brother, but I still went. I thought some time was better than none.

Lynne was not a happy woman, as I later realized she was angry and jealous on visits. I was a reminder that Dad had been married to my Mother, and she resented that greatly.

IT DIDN’T TAKE LONG FOR SUNDSAYS to stop altogether, though I still dressed up in hopes that my Dad would disprove my doubts and appear. My heart broke a little every time.

We didn’t see him for many years, then he made a sudden resurgence into our lives.

At first, I was intrigued, but that changed when I found out why. He had divorced Lynne and was alone. By that time, I was in my late 20s, angry and resentful. His popping back up seemed self-serving. My father never liked being alone.

He then met wonderful woman only a few years older than I and went on to marry her. His interest in us waned again, yet not to the degree as with Lynne. We saw him at obligatory meetings like Christmas or

LAST MONTH, I VISITED HIM. HIS BONE cancer progressed quickly and there wasn’t much time. I began the drive with a crescendoing anger, because I’d been sternly asked to see him by family. I didn’t want to see him looking like a sick and vacant version of the father that had been, for a short while, the vibrant fun man on those Sundays at the park.

What happened next transcended everything. I walked into the house and sat beside him. He was heavily medicated, but it wasn’t doing much good. In moans, he kept repeating, “Kill me.” The breath was torn from my body and I instinctively held his hand. At that moment, every bit of anger, resentment, blame, and at times hatred for him dissolved and vanished.

I spoke to him about memories of our fun Sundays together.

“You’ll see grandma Katy soon.” He came out the daze of agony and said, “You remember her? I’ll be damned.” He then sank back into the void. It was the only time that happened all day.

Then the call came that he just died, and I fell to the floor in heartache. After pulling myself together, I turned on the radio.

Marianne Faithfull’s throaty voice emerged singing The Ballad of Lucy Jordon.

At the age of 37 She realized she’d never ride Through Paris in a sports car With the warm wind in her hair So she let the phone keep ringing As she sat there softly singing Pretty nursery rhymes she’d memorized In her Daddy’s easy chair What might have been? My father and I would never have the relationship we could have, but it didn’t mean I didn’t love him. It took his death for me to realize that.

Dedicated to Thomas Vizzini, January 28 1937 - May 8 2017

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TIGHTY WHITIES SET ASIDE UNDERWEAR AS FASHION. HERE’S FIVE THINGS GAY GUYS LOVE ABOUT TRADITIONAL BRIEFS.

BY MIKE FLEMING

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s it just us, or is everyone obsessed with tighty whities these days? Not that their popularity ever went away totally, but it seems like more and more guys are hearkening back to the good ol’ days of their earliest gay fantasies.

Whatever the case, it’s like these tried-and-true staples went on hiatus and are back in full swing. You can’t grab an ass in a gay bar these days without sliding your hand into a ‘70s porn flashback.

Here are our five favorite things that make tighty whities so great.

HIGH SCHOOL FANTASIES For some of us, the first time we saw other boys in their underwear was in gym class. Once we learned what that “special feeling” meant about our orientation, it never went away. Neither did our affection for the underwear that started it all.

NO BUNCH These tried-and-true favorites are great with jeans and khakis because they don’t bunch up around the legs. And over and above going commando, they keep your business in check as well as leave one last layer to play with before taking them off.

MASC 4 MASC We kid about guys who go over-the-top about masculinity, even as far as being downright internally homophobic about traces of femininity.

No sir. Those extremes aside, there’s something awfully sexy and inherently butch about an exclusively male garment that touches everything you want to touch.

MAN MADE Speaking of exclusively male garments, being made for a man comes with some practical advantages. The sportswear culture means these garments are built for physical activity. When in motion, you want the equipment hanging away from the body and free from two of your most active parts, the legs. You’re kept safely in the upright and locked position.

THE LOOK When it comes right down to it, briefs look good on most guys because they’re cut to show off the body parts in and around them. Higher-cut openings make your legs look their longest, and the elastic at the waist and legs keeps them close to the body without sagging. What’s more, there’s just something sexy about practicality and tradition. This guy has the look, but in a fashion choice that doesn’t try to hard too achieve it.

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BEACH & POOL READS 2017 YOUR SUMMER BOOK LIST JUST GOT A WHOLE LOT GAYER

BY GREGG SHAPIRO

Whether you read at the beach, at the pool, in the backyard, in bed or in the bathtub, gay books and titles of LGBT interest, books will definitely enhance your summer reading experience.

NOVEL IDEAS The second installment in magazine editor and cultural writer Georgette Gouveia’s The Games Men Play series, The Penalty For Holding (Less Than Three Press, 2017) tells the story of backup quarterback Quinn Novak whose triumph on the playing field gets him noticed by Mal and Tam, players on opposing teams, leading to a different kind of scoring.

2014, 2017) follows the journey of writer Jonathan as he searches for the mother who left when his parents divorced.

biography of the early life” of gay poet John Ashbery, who turns 90 this summer. The author of 20 volumes of poetry, Ashbery received the Pulitzer The tumultuous, creative and ultimately Prize in 1976 for Self-Portrait in a tragic life of Isadora Duncan, the bisexual Convex Mirror. mother of modern dance, is given the novel treatment in Isadora (FSG, 2017) The Dog’s Last Walk (and Other

by Amelia Gray.

Pieces) (Bloomsbury, 2017) by Howard Jacobson, author of the 2010 Man A fertile “crop” of writers, including Booker Prize-winning novel The Finkler Keith Glaeske, James Penha and Evey Question, is the second collection of the Brett, contributed to the “men and writer’s weekly columns for The Indevegetation” anthology His Seed: An pendent, which he wrote for the paper Arboretum of Erotica (Unzipped, 2017), until it ceased publication in 2016. edited by Steve Berman.

NON-FICTION NOW

Queer Canadian visual artist and writer The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery’s Early Life (FSG, 2017) by Karin Roffman Shani Mootoo’s latest novel Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab (Akashic, is described as “the first comprehensive

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POETIC STYLE

Jackknife: New and Selected Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017)

by Jan Beatty opens with 22 new poems (such as “The World Between

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SUMMER READS, Continued

Jim Morrison’s Legs”) and features poems from her four prior books Mad River, Boneshaker, Red Sugar and the acclaimed The Switching/Yard (including “Dear American Poetry.”)

(Shirley Manson, Butch Vig, Duke Erikson and Steve Marker) with Jason Cohen, and crammed full of color and black & white photos, band interviews and much more.

With the “fully annotated and comprehensive” New Collected Poems (FSG, 2017), edited by Heather Cass White, Marianne Moore, one of the pioneers of poetic modernism, finally gets the thorough compendium that she has long deserved.

Endorsement blurbs from Alison Bechdel and Roz Chast adorn the back cover of Everything Is Flammable (Uncivilized Books, 2017), the full-length graphic memoir debut by Gabrielle Bell, about the New York-based alternative cartoonist’s attempts at improving her mother’s life following a fire that destroyed her home.

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ROMAN Whether he’s Speedoed up at the pool, stretching in the park or working out at the gym, Benny with the good hair has all eyes on him. Put him with patriotic colors, and he’s a perfect fit for our Fourth of July cover.

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BLAKE’S TGIF with Doug & Brent 3-9pm • Celestial Fridays with Celeste Holmes & Cast 11pm • Bill Berdeaux Spins Street Level BURKHART’S FEMME FATALE with Destiny Brooks and Justice Taylor at 11PM CLUB RUSH “Got Leche” Free entry until 11pm 18 & up - Open until 4am EAGLE DJ Dance Party HERETIC PUMP featuring Atlanta’s hottest deejays - Occasional special events.

No cover b4 11 HIDEAWAY $5 Smirnoff drinks & Martinis DJ Marc J. Cubs @10pm in back room JUNGLE The Other Show with Edie Cheezburger 9:30pm LIPS ATLANTA Glitz & Glamour Las Vegas Style MODEL T Texas Hold’em Poker 9pm OSCAR’S Music Video Night SWINGING RICHARDS Sexy dancers pack the strage early! Drink Specials all night. Free before 8PM. $10 Cover before 12 TEN ATLANTA Music & Videos by DJ Daryl Cox 10pm TRIPPS Jeremy Presents “Skin” 4pm - 2am WOOFS Fur Fridays

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You talk a lot about what all that money buys, but I won’t be the first to tell you what money can’t buy. Being happy is more important than appearing perfect – to neighbors, to judgey gay eyes on you, or to anyone interested in your personal business. This is your life, and you deserve to be satisfied.

Put some of that capitol in places where it can do the most good. Hint: Your mantle isn’t one of them.

Pick up your career where you left off, or create a new one based on your experiences since then.

Volunteer for people who need you. Start figuring out why you’d “give up everything” for anyone, ever.

HEY,

DADDY! F#%! WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK Hey, Daddy!

From the outside, I appear to have the perfect gay life. My husband is successful. We have two gorgeous children, and our house has been featured in a local magazine. We vacation overseas, we have domestic help, and we have a family photo with Hillary Clinton on the mantle.

What no one sees is that my husband treats me like shit. I gave up everything to live his dreams, and what I get is dismissive at best, monstrous at worst. How can I fix it without alerting all our friends that something is rotten in Dunwoody?

Bountiful Living Is Actually Deficient Dear BLIND: You’re having trouble seeing the forest for the well-manicured trees.

You’ve grown accustomed to the lifestyle his money provides, but some serious re-prioritizing needs to happen – stat.

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Hey, Daddy!

Until I graduated, I put up with my grandmother’s expectations and didn’t let others know that I am gay. After taking a job filled with religiously conservative old guys, I remain mostly closeted and am afraid of being outed at work.

When is Me Time?

Nervous Obsessed Worried Dear NOW: Living honestly and authentically, despite what others may want from you, isn’t always easy.

Deciding to address it, though, starts the clock on You Time immediately. Sorting the consequences is actually the easy part.

There will be tough choices ahead whether you stay stuck or break free, but the consequences of the former can be worse than you’re already experiencing, and the latter comes with rewards richer than any paycheck.

DADDY LOVES HIS BOYS He knows the answers you need, and you’re going to get them. Reach out to him with your burning questions via our editor, mike@davidatlanta.com.

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ARIES (Mar. 21 – Apr. 19):

LIBRA (Sep. 23 – Oct. 22):

As your energy and confidence pick up, it’s easy to go overboard. Take time to meditate, exercise, to share your plans and ambitions. You need sensible counsel to keep you on the track to success, and off the road to disaster.

Mars just into your sign cranks up your energy, but don’t be an energetic crank! While changes at home are necessary, listen attentively to your partner and family. To start change yourself you have to start by changing yourself.

TAURUS (Apr. 20 – May 20):

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21):

Putting money into your home looks like a good investment, but it’s not. Your sense of community values may put you into a very small minority. Your basic values are good, but what you’ve built on them may need re-hashing.

Taking responsibility is not the same as taking blame.

Staying quiet and avoiding arguments doesn’t make the others right, but could make you more effective in the long run. You will regret speaking up. Be observant and shrewd working behind the scenes.

GEMINI (May 21- Jun. 20):

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21):

Venus offers you extra charm, but with your ruler Mercury turning retrograde you could charm your way into situations you’d regret. Count on your friends and listen to them. That wild new passion in your life is just a passing fancy.

Asserting your sexual desires can be good for you, but stressful on your relationship. Real love requires compromises – on both sides. A serious discussion can reach a satisfactory conclusion. Single? Unsure?

A hot new fling is just that. Enjoy. Don’t make plans.

CANCER (Jun. 21- Jul. 22):

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19):

A clash between spiritual values and material goals may leave you questioning how you keep body and soul together. Making revolutionary changes requires subtle efforts and personal choices while working subversively within the system.

Too much confidence at work can quickly get you into trouble, especially at home. Rallying your people to support you can be a hard sell. They have needs, too! Respect and support them. One way or another they’ll pay you back.

LEO (Jul. 23 – Aug. 22):

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18):

Your discomfort with the world is your own problem.

Don’t take it out on others. You need fearlessly honest friends to confront you with disturbing truths. The courage to listen won’t come easily, but you can handle it.

You’re all about changing the world, but can you change yourself? New ideas will soon challenge your deepest values and commitments. The world needs to evolve and change, and you must do so first if you really want to lead the way.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 – Sep. 22):

PISCES (Feb. 19 – Mar. 20):

Your ability to keep confidences is important to your ambitions. Letting on that you know a secret is the first step to giving it up. Wanting to enjoy attention among your friends can cost you at home. Think ahead!

The seducer can get even more lost in seduction than the seduced. Worry less about what you need from others and think about what you can offer others of yourself. Even then think ahead and consider your own limits.

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bitch session One white art fag, a woman of color and a bunch of drag queens who think they’re unique, does not a movement make.

Watching my step so I don’t trip over you bar bitches as I move on.

Bitch you lip sync in outfits. Stop acting like you’re an artiste.

They told me you were really nice once I got to know you. What they meant was you’re a bitch and I’ll get used to it. I didn’t.

Before you try it, you should know I don’t play games.

I win them.

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SEND US YOUR BITCHES! Text 404.969.BTCH, tweet @BitchSessionATL or email bitch@davidatlanta.com *This page reflects the bitchiness of the community not David Atlanta or its publisher (although we’re bitchy too!)

You call me ‘bae,’ but it makes me want to punch you in the ‘fae.’

Why do we approach every internal conflict with venom instead of good will? Why do we start at social media shaming, crazy accusations and assumption of malice?

Hey, dumbass. Did you think my best friends wouldn’t tell me what you said?

You think you’re cute. You think you’re sassy. Newsflash girl. You freakin nasty.

It’s Sunday night, and I already can’t wait to get home from work tomorrow.