Longtime Activist Remembers The Movie Theater Police Raid That Birthed Atlanta’s LGBTQ Movement
October 13, 2025•
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CBS News reports that today Atlanta’s Ansley Mall shopping center is home to many stores and small businesses, it’s long gone now, but in 1969, there was a movie theater at the shopping center, the site of an event that some consider Atlanta’s version of the raid that triggered the Stonewall riots in New York.
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