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  • Black and gay in Atlanta: Growing community leaves a mark

    08/14/2005 11:30:30 PM PDT · by Extremely Extreme Extremist · 13 replies · 2,282+ views
    WFRV.COM ^ | 08/15/2005 | ERIN TEXEIRA - AP WRITER
    ATLANTA (AP) Once or twice a week, the women's drum circle gathers to practice. Drum Sista's members pound and caress the skins, bonding through the rhythm in an atmosphere of like-minded women activists and artists, all African-American, all lesbian. It is no accident that they found one another in Atlanta. The city and its suburbs have, in recent years, become a mecca for black gays and lesbians. The region now is home to the biggest concentration of black same-sex couples in the South, with nearly as many as the Chicago area, which has more than four times as many blacks....