Perched in Atlanta’s Cheshire Bridge corridor amid restaurants and adult video stores, the Heretic prides itself on being one of the city’s oldest gay bars.
Charlie Paine, chair of the LGBTQ historic preservation advisory for Historic Atlanta, said it all started in the 1970s when Atlanta became a hotbed for gay advocacy.
“There are very few gay spaces that have maintained themselves in the gay community and survived,” he said.
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