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The City of Atlanta prepares once again to welcome numerous attendees to the 26th Annual Atlanta Black Gay Pride Celebration, the world’s 2nd largest black pride event celebrating activism, inclusion and excellence in the city’s lgbtq movement. The host organization, Atlanta Black Pride, Inc. along with veteran event producers, non-profits and nightlife promoters will bring another round of Empowering seminars and Entertainment experiences in various locations across Metro Atlanta. Atlanta Black Pride, Inc. (ABP), the official host company birthed out of the founding organization, In The Life Atlanta (est. 1996), will present the best in Workshops, Seminars & Community Events such as their signatures, SpeakFire, Annual Fashion Show, Film Festival, Literary Café and the Annual LGBT Greek Weekend (in partnership with Real Bois Talk). Events will climax at Central Park in Midtown Atlanta (located on the corner of North Avenue and Central Park Place Dr.) They kicked off the week with their annual Multi-Faith Celebration Service on Tuesday, August 30th at the Spiritual Living Center of Atlanta (an event to honor legends in Atlanta’s black gay culture who have passed on).
The NEWEST Addition to ABP’s itinerary is the premiere of the 1st LGBT Food & Wine Festival, an official signature event of Ebanman Media & Monarch International. This event shines an international spotlight on the diversity of Black LGBTQ (influence or community) in food, wine, and the spirits industry. It will showcase a variety of local and global LGBTQ chefs, sommeliers, mixologists, (foodies and industry insiders.) (visit the websites for additional details: www.atlantablackpride.org & www.lgbtfw.com)
In partnership with The Vision Church & Community Foundation, the Special Highlight of their weekend climaxes with the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the Annual Pure Heat Community Festival at Piedmont Park on Sunday, September 4th from Noon - 8 PM featuring various celebrity guests and performers. SEE THE FEATURE ARTICLE LATER IN THIS ISSUE.
Traxx Girls & Rockstars Production will once again host their Labor Day Weekend events at various venues in Atlanta and their New Host Hotel Location, The Sterliing by Hilton (formally Hotel Midtown & The W), located 188 14th Street NE. Traxx Girls featuring DJ/Reality TV Star and Entrepreneur, Melissa Scott, is the #1 Pride Event for Lesbian/Bi Women under the legendary brand, PURE HEAT. Pure Heat features various parties with Celebrity Stars and their Annual Black Pride Booze Cruise at Lake Lanier on Labor Day. Rockstars Annual LABOR DAY ROCK handles all events for Gay/Bi Men. Their Signature UPGRADED Events (which will happen on Thursday & Saturday) will feature celebrity guests such as LATTO, along with their NEW Influencers Dinner, paying tribute to Icons in the Black Queer Community. (visit the website for details: www.atlantablackprideldr.com)
A New Cultural event entitled “Artists In The Afternoon”- Prose, Poetry & More, presented by RETHINK The Narrative Media Company & The Esteem Awards, will take place on Saturday Afternoon, September 3rd at 1 PM at the Atlanta Public Library on Metropolitan Avenue (located 1332 Metropolitan Parkway, Atlanta 30315). This event will highlight written and spoken word, music, art, and more. With hors d’oeuvres, lively conversation, door prizes, and vendors, it is sure to be an afternoon well spent! This event is free - open to the public, and will feature Dr. Derrick Tennial (Founder of RETHINK), Tim’m T. West (Queer Hip-Hop Legend-Poet-Author), Trans activist Dr. Elijah Nichols, Atlanta’s own renowned author Hartsel Clifton Shirley, Ken J. Martin (Indie Queer Soul Icon & Author), Dr. Jesse Sanders from Columbus, Ohio (Meak Productions’ 1st Gentleman of Inspiration), and a host of special guest speakers and performers JT Events, the stewards of the historic SkateBoyzATL brand, and the official promoter for Inaugural 2021 Hall of Famers, the legendary Marquette Lounge, will host their Annual Black Pride Block Party at the club during all Labor Day Weekend, as well as a NEW Pool Party on the official holiday on Monday, September 5th in Lilburn, Georgia.
Blue Diamond Entertainment’s Annual PRIDE25+ (Annual Black Pride for Mature Women) will once again present their Annual & Renowned All-White Party LIVE at the new HIDDEN GEM (located 2011 Bolton Road in Northwest Atlanta). As always, Blue Diamond will be partnering with other Female promoters for a variety of Day & Nightlife Parties for the weekend, some of which will be a part of the Pure Heat lineup. The Legendary RT Parties ATL in partnership with Mixx Atlanta Restaurant & Lounge, home of Destination Fridays and Parties for the Grown & Sexy on Sundays for Men over 30 will once again hold their festivities at their host location and at various venues throughout the city. Known as the Co-Founder of the Annual Black Pride Block Party in partnership with FAB 5 ATL, RT Parties will be officially inducted into the History of Black Gay Atlanta Hall of Fame & Justice for his 20+ years of nightlife and events. (www.atlantablackpride.com)
Formally known as “Pride In The Park”, this festival was an evolutionary spin-off of the former originated by the Founders of Atlanta Black Gay Pride, In The Life Atlanta along with other legendary promoters and organizations as a way to officially end the black pride weekend with a cook-out, information tables, music and fellowship. It wasn’t until 2002 that the crowd began to grow beyond capacity and park guidelines. The organizers were required to register for a park permit in following years and the name changed to the current brand to reflect a more evolved and organized event.
This year’s Atlanta Black Gay Pride Celebration marks the 10th Anniversary of the Pure Heat Community Festival, known as the Signature Climax Event of Black Pride weekend by History of Black Gay Atlanta, This legendary festival is held annually on Sunday and draws thousands of people of color and allies to Piedmont Park to celebrate and fellowship.
This year, Hip-Hop Icon, Reality Star and Bisexual Artist, Joseline Hernandez will be the feature highlight of the Festival, along with special guest appearances by an array of Indie Artists, community activists and other celebrity guests. As always, various vendors from all business industries and event sponsors will be displayed for the attendees to network and enjoy. The 10th Anniversary of the Pure Heat Community Festival will take place Sunday, September 4th from 12 noon - 8 PM at Piedmont Park in Midtown Atlanta. For more details, please visit: www.atlantaprideweekend.com
The Pure Heat brand name was originally created back during the early Millennium by inaugural 2021 Hall of Famers, Traxx Atlanta (Traxx Clubs International) as their signature for the annual black pride weekend. After Traxx Atlanta folded, the female spin-off Traxx Girls, founded by renowned celebrity DJ/Promoter/Entrepreneur Melissa Scott, continued the brand and made it a national renowned staple. Along with Co-Partners, The Vision Community Foundation (official outreach subsidiary of The Vision Church - Bishop O.C. Allen, Senior Pastor) and iconic event promoters, RockStars Production, the annual festival has featured and honored some of the best in black entertainment/activism (both LGBTQ & Straight Allies) over the years, such as Brandy, Kelly Price, The Braxtons, Monica, DaBrat and many others.
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Wassup N’ ATL’s Annual Manual Labor (Trailblazers of the Best in Exotic Entertainment since 2002), will be in full effect with Special Guest: BONE THE MACK & FRIENDS along with other Guest Exotic Dancers and Performers sponsored by Guaranteed Entertainment. The Sonesta Atlanta Airport North is the Official Host Hotel for Wassup N’ ATL. Fab5ATL’s(www.wassupnatl.com)AnnualCOLORS Weekend, the home of the weekly IN DA CUT (Strippers Show), Men of the Night, and other signatures will return with a variety of events for attendees featuring celebrity special guests, in partnership with Sean Karta Promotions and others. For the 1st Time in COLORS Weekend history, they will present their first Circuit Party for Men of Color entitled, PLAY - LIVE at Future Lounge (Located in the lower level of Underground Atlanta - Downtown) For More info, follow them on Social Media @Fab5Atl @romichaelworld1 @seankarta
The CARTEL, Atlanta’s newest promoters, will return with their signature events on Labor Day Weekend featuring The Cast of the popular reality show, BAD BOYS ATLANTA with Exec. Producer/Celebrity, Milan Christopher. Their main event will take place Saturday, September 3rd, LIVE at the Cosmopolitan (4525 Glenwood Road in Decatur, GA).
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And THAT is what I learned the most at camp. Youth truly is wasted on the young a lot of the time. These men of a certain age I was bunking with absolutely had a blast at camp, and they were incredibly lovely to spend time with. All over 50, and they had the heart and energy of a much younger camper. If we embrace the joy around us and live in the moment instead of getting stuck doing things we hate, then maybe (just maybe) we can live a bit longer.
Being in the Atlanta area has its perks. There is an endless amount of things to do daily in the city: we have one of the busiest metropolises in the country, and we have the busiest airport in the world where you can catch a flight to pretty much anywhere. But what if you need a bit of time to escape and get away from the hustle and bustle of the city? I recently attended Gay Naturists International’s “The Gathering” in the Poconos for the fourth year in a row. I have been attending every year since I moved to Atlanta, and I have to say that this year was a new experience for me. While I go camping to get away from what is the norm for me, I also go to see folx, who have now become my chosen family, and those who return each year to shed their clothing and bare their all. Men of all shapes and sizes attend the event, and it truly is diverse regarding the age demographic, as it can be as young as 21 and sometimes as old as 91. You bunk with cabin mates that you may know and some you may not. You eat in a dining hall daily with over 500 men who identify as gay, bi, pan, whatever! It truly is a magical experience. However, the main magic that happens isn’t just the joy you find in spending time naked amongst a sea of men but the joy and love you find within yourself by the end of the week. By shedding your clothing, you realize that we are all much more alike than we are different, and that lesson is much more apparent when we shed the outer layer that hides our insecurities and assets. From the gracious smiles of the board members and volunteers at check-in to the introductions to your cabin mates or the reacquainting hugs with other campers, there is an air of welcomeness here that you often don’t find elsewhere. Nightly shows range from comedy to variety shows because, as Drag Queen Stormy Weather says: “It’s a lot easier to find variety than it is to find talent.” As I walked across the camp with nothing covering me, I noticed the smiles and eye contact people gave me. There is a level of genuineness behind their eyes that you rarely find anywhere else. There is an authenticity (a very overused word) about the camp and its members that show you there are folks who truly enjoy being nude; it doesn’t have to be about sex. I have heard from numerous former sex workers in the business that they are afraid of going to camps like this because they feel as though they won’t be able to escape their sex persona when nude around other gay men. That’s why they don’t go to River’s Edge or Oz. But I find this to be the opposite of what happens. When someone sees another person naked, there is a vulnerability associated with that. There is an understanding that they are showing you something that others may not have seen, they may have been ashamed to expose, or they simply don’t like being naked. However, there is a new way that I am choosing to embrace my nudity. I want to feel empowered and strong when naked. There is only one body that we are all given. This body, this vessel that allows us to move through space and time, is the only capsule we have available to us. If we choose to shame it, we shame all it has been through. With all the heartbreak, death, love, joy, laughter, etc., that comes with being human, why would we ever want to disregard that which has helped shape us into who we are today? There is no need, and quite frankly, it is disrespectful. If we only have one body, we owe it to our parents, ourselves, and the powers that be (whether you are religious or not) to be the best version of ourselves that we can be. As humans, we can indulge and refuse, love or hate, and listen or ignore, but we still need to do our best to keep our bodies young at heart.
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Darren Star, who created “Sex and the City” and “Younger,” helmed “Uncoupled” with Jeffrey Richman, so naturally there’s a fair amount of gay sex.
By Chris Azzopardi Photos provided by Netflix
It wasn’t that it was hard, but when Neil Patrick Harris shot a scene for the new Netflix series “Uncoupled,” in which his character tries to snap just the right Grindr shots, it was a little… hairy. It was “taking angles” and “making sure that you didn’t show your stuff in certain positions” that Harris says was “interesting.” “We had to find what my ‘d actually looks like,’” said the Zoomwhileairthrowingactor,upquotesonto promote the series. In “Uncoupled,” Harris’s Michael, a married Manhattanite, has the rug pulled out from under him when his husband of 17 years, portrayed by Tuc Watkins (“Desperate Housewives,” “Boys in the Band”), suddenly decides to end things. Michael quickly learns that, for a single gay man in his mid-40s living in New York City, he’s a little behind the ball when it comes to contemporary queer culture. Openly gay TV rom-com mogul
Neil Patrick Harris’s PeNis Problem
But, as Michael learns, in order to get some taps, you’ve gotta show the goods on social media. Harris’s bare bottom is discussionsinthatofwasthoughepisode,duringfeaturedprominentlytheitthefronthisbodyresultedheated and debates. “My modesty’s fine; I wasn’t that nervous about that,” he admitted. “You have this weird contraption around your actual genitals so no one can see it, but I didn’t want Netflix execs or the editors to see this, like, weird pouch thing, and the camera couldn’t see that either.” In other words, situating a penis just right is a complicated affair on set. So complicated
Harris knows that, perhaps, you were misled: “I think people think they might have actually seen my dong on ‘Gone Girl,’ but that was a digital dong.’” On behalf of NPH, sorry for the confusion.
As for the new-and-improved, NPHapproved penis pics? Still on his phone, he says. Though not for long because his two kids with Michigan-born husband David Burtka, Harper and Gideon, could possibly see them when they go through his phone. “I really do need to erase those pictures off my phone,” he said.
that, when he went to his trailer the day of the shoot and found “two flaccid rubber phalluses on my desk,” it was time to get the producers involved.
“We’re at the New York Film Fest, and we’re about to do the red carpet, and [director] David Fincher, when we’re all saying hello, turns to me and goes ‘Oh, by the way: We added a digital dick to your thing so just so you know, it’s not yours. It’s digital.’ I was like, ‘Is it nice?’”
In other Neil Patrick Harris penis news: He had you fooled in “Gone Girl,” and contrary to popular belief, what you saw down there wasn’t the real thing.
“They were like small and weird, and I think something people used to pack themselves, like drag kings, but it didn’t look very flattering and I sort of said, ‘I don’t want this! I don’t want you to take a picture of Specificallythis!’”— because who wouldn’t want every single last detail? — Harris described the phalluses as “latex, pale, single-colored thing[s].” And if you ever wondered what it’s like to work on a set of a show in which the penis of your character is up for debate, wonder no more: “We had a nice text thread with the producers,” he recalled. “‘What about this photo if we crop it? And what about this? It was the filthiest thing of all. ‘Too big, too thick, too long.’ I was like, ‘Come on!’ But we kind of met in the middle.”
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While the COVID-19 pandemic is still a major health concern, along with Monkeypox, we applaud the resilience of pride organizers across the world as they still push forward. We ask that EVERYONE continue to be safe, mask up where possible, drink & play responsibly and protect yourself during Labor Day Weekend. For more information and updates about the Atlanta Black Pride 26th Annual Itinerary during Labor Day weekend, please visit the the magazine’s main site at: www.PeachATL.com BLACK PRIDE FROM OF US AT PRO PEACH ATL!
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MANHOLE! Drag King Show w. Tenderoni @ Star Bar | September 2, 9 pm – 2 am The boyz are back back back again! And this time they brought a friend. Mr. Elle Aye & House of ALXNDR present MANHOLE: An All Drag King Show. Performances by Deacon Slanders, Hannibal Montannibal, Hayden Van Pelt Fury, Majik Sebastian Cassadine, Olvr M. Face, and special guest Tenderoni. DJ sets by TAYLOR ALXNDR. Get your tickets ($10 presale tickets • $15 at the door) at www.tayloralxndr.com/merch.
Labor Day Carnival of Fun @ The Hideaway | September 2-5
Deviant ATL: Levitate @ Heretic | September 3, 10 pm – 3 am Step out and into Club Renaissance. Wear a look that makes you feel COZY, come ready to GROOVE, keep good ENERGY. $15 general admission and $35 VIP (lounge + clothes check).
The Hideaway has the plans for you Labot Day Weekend: Kinky Carnival Friday night with fetish fun, Saturday Deca-Dance with DJ Darlene, Sunday Afternoon T with Mother at 12:30, Sunday night Meat Up at The Sunday Night Hustle with DJ Rob Reum, and Monday DJ Darlene has Labor Day Tunes. Drink specials all weekend long!
DILF Atlanta “HARD LABOR” @ Heretic | September 2, 10 pm – 3 am Kick off Labor Day weekend as JFW & MAN UPP Productions present DILF Hard Labor, the hottest & biggest “jock party” in the country is back in Atlanta. You’re encouraged to wear jocks, harness, gear, leather (a clothes check will be available). Event listing and tickets on Eventbrite.
Daydreaming Art Market Pop-Up @ East Atlanta Village Farmers Market |
The 10th Annual Heroes and Villains Ball @ The Westin Peachtree Plaza Atlanta | September 3, 10 pm
September 3, 1-7 pm Come shop local in East Atlanta Village, featuring 20+ local vendors with handmade goods, arts, crafts and more.
The Dragon Con Video Gaming Track presents the 10th annual biggest and baddest ball of them all. Wet Leg @ Variety Playhouse | September 4The British indie rock duo soared to fame in 2021 with their single Chaise Lounge, and now they’re touring to promote their self-titled debut album. Isis Muretech Labor Day Sunday @ Heretic | September 4, 10 pm – 3 am Party into Labor Day with Isis Muretech on the decks at the Heretic.
how you want to proceed with retirement and such. If you think that you need to focus a bit more on the future and what it has in store for you then maybe, you need to really examine if it’s time to change careers. Otherwise, if you feel like you are in a good place then you might be able to let things go slowly and transition as opposed to giving everything up. You have to also look and see what brings you joy now a days. Things change and so do careers. If you think that the ca reer you are currently in is still bringing you joy, then wonderful… But if not, then you need to see what you can do to spark that joy again if you plan for a long-term career.
When I think about my future it seems so far away and everyone around me wants to mention things like prepare for retirement and such… am I being silly in thinking that I dont have to worry about this right now? Should I start pre paring and begin to trade in the work that I am doing for work that will better suit a longer career and Onlyretirement?youcandecide
