Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms ordered all bars, nightclubs, gyms, movie theaters, live performance venues and arcades to close Thursday due to the coronavirus causing “an extreme likelihood of destruction of life.”
Six Georgia groups joined over 100 others in the U.S. calling on public health officials and the media not to leave out LGBTQ people in the response to the coronavirus pandemic.
At least two Atlanta gay bars will close through the end of March, and a flood of events are canceled as queer businesses and organizations respond to the coronavirus pandemic.