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20 Years of Black Joy Edited by Mikkel Hyldebrandt, Photos: ABPW
Twenty years is a milestone worth celebrating – and Atlanta Black Pride Weekend is doing exactly that. From September 2 through 7, Atlanta will once again become a gathering place for thousands of Black LGBTQIA+ people, allies, artists, advocates, and community leaders from across the country. Now marking its 20th anniversary, Atlanta Black Pride Weekend (ABPW) is bringing nearly a week of parties, performances, community programming, empowerment, health initiatives and good old-fashioned Black queer joy to the city. And yes, the lineup is giving plenty of reasons to get excited. Special appearances and performances are set to include Durand Bernarr, Saucy Santana, Summer Walker, Terrell Carter, Billy The Goat, Big Sexy, Sway McKinney, Dolly Babe, Trim, Miss Kaniyah, Sapphire, Jhonni Blaze and many more. But beneath the celebrity appearances, packed dance floors and festival fashions, Atlanta Black Pride is about something much bigger: creating a space where Black LGBTQIA+ people can see themselves, celebrate themselves and connect with one another. Why Black Pride Matters
brings together the city’s LGBTQ+ community Pride has never been a one-size-fits-all for a massive celebration that encompasses experience. The LGBTQIA+ community is people across races, identities, generations and wonderfully diverse, and different communities backgrounds. Atlanta Black Pride, meanwhile, have different histories, challenges, cultural offers a more specifically centered experience for Black LGBTQIA+ people while remaining traditions and reasons to celebrate. welcoming to everyone. For Black LGBTQIA+ people, having a dedicated Pride celebration provides an opportunity to Rather than competing, the celebrations center Black queer experiences and culture in a complement one another. Together, they way that can sometimes get lost within broader demonstrate something important about Pride LGBTQ+ spaces. It is a chance to celebrate itself: creating more spaces for people to gather the artists, entrepreneurs, activists, organizers, doesn’t diminish the movement – it strengthens it. families and everyday community members who continue to shape queer life – and to do Atlanta’s LGBTQ+ community doesn’t have to so surrounded by people who understand the choose one celebration over another. You can particular intersections of race, sexuality and turn up for the parade in October, dance your gender. way through Black Pride in September, support community organizations throughout the year and That makes Atlanta a particularly fitting home still have plenty of room left on your calendar for for one of the nation’s largest Black LGBTQIA+ another fabulous party. Pride celebrations. Atlanta has long been a cultural and political center for Black America That spirit of coexistence is quintessentially and a powerhouse of Southern LGBTQ+ life. Its Atlanta: multiple communities, cultures and reputation as a welcoming destination for Black traditions sharing the same city while bringing queer people has been built over decades by their own unique energy to the table. community organizations, businesses, nightlife, activists and generations of people who have made the city their home. Atlanta Black Pride is Celebration With a Purpose part of that legacy, but it is also very much about the future. Atlanta Black Pride Weekend has also consistently paired celebration with community impact. A portion of proceeds from the weekend supports Two Prides, One City programs addressing homelessness among LGBTQ+ youth and supporting people impacted For anyone unfamiliar with Atlanta’s Pride by HIV/AIDS through The Vision Community landscape, it might be tempting to wonder why Foundation. the city needs both Atlanta Black Pride and the annual Atlanta Pride Festival. There are also opportunities to give back directly. The Atlanta Black Pride Blood Drive, powered by The answer is simple: Atlanta is big enough, the American Red Cross, takes place Saturday, diverse enough and fabulous enough for both. September 5, offering eligible donors an Atlanta Pride, traditionally held in October, opportunity to turn Pride into an act of service.
into approximately 47 people you know. The entertainment lineup is equally hot. Terrell Carter, Billy The Goat, Jhonni Blaze, Oliver Twixt, Steezo, 4N Yardi, Ty The Beyonce Slayer, Big Boss Vette and others are scheduled to take the stage, while Saucy Santana returns for a special performance featuring fan favorites and new music. GRAMMY Award winner Durand Bernarr will also receive the 2026 Impact Award, recognizing his contributions to music, culture, LGBTQ+ visibility The weekend also includes the return of Mayor and unapologetic self-expression. Andre Dickens’ Atlanta Black Pride Reception, now in its seventh year. Held at Atlanta City And for those whose Pride experience isn’t Hall, the reception brings together community complete without a serious house music moment, leaders, elected officials, advocates, entertainers the Piedmont Park pavilion will host The Pride and influencers to celebrate Atlanta’s Black Legacy House Music Party, featuring D Lo, DJ LGBTQIA+ community and those working toward KG, DJ Keith Club Head, DJ Ric and ChanceDaDj. greater visibility, equity, health and social impact. Other Atlanta Black Pride Weekend Then there is the Black Excellence Influencers Lineup Highlights Dinner, hosted by Derek J. on Friday, September 4. Returning for its fifth year, the event recognizes Friday, September 4 an impressive roster of trailblazers and cultural Black Excellence Influencers Dinner influencers, including Jesseca Harris-Dupart, The Starling Atlanta Midtown Vinny Watson, Carlos King, Jerome Trammel, SG, Cliff Vmir, MC Fatha Flex, Karen “KD” Douglas, Hosted by Derek J. A glamorous evening Niesha Dupress and Dr. Felicia Ivey. The evening celebrating Black LGBTQIA+ trailblazers, will also honor the late Sharell Canty with the creatives, advocates and influencers. ICON Award posthumously. In other words, Atlanta Black Pride knows how to have a good time – but it also knows why the party matters. The Main Event: Pure Heat The crown jewel of the weekend arrives Sunday, September 6, when Piedmont Park becomes the site of the 14th Annual Pure Heat Community Festival. Free and open to minority LGBTQIA+ people, allies, families and supporters, Pure Heat is the kind of event where you can spend an entire afternoon wandering from the vendor marketplace to the food stalls, catching live performances, checking out community resources and running
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This Basic Human Skill Disappeared Sometime After the Middle Ages By Dr. Zachary LaVigne, Any Spine Chiropractic & Massage Studio Watch a toddler pick something up off the floor. Knees bend, hips drop, heels stay flat, spine stays tall, and the kid just hangs out down there like it’s nothing, maybe eating a cracker. Now try it yourself. If you’re like most adults, you either can’t get your heels down, you topple backward, or your lower back rounds into a question mark before you’ve even fully descended. Somewhere between age five and adulthood, we lost a movement every human body was built to do. The full squat, feet flat, hips below the knees, isn’t a gym exercise. It’s a resting position, the same way sitting or lying down is. Anthropologist Gordon Hewes documented back in 1955 that most of the world’s cultures rest this way by default, and it’s specifically European and European-descended societies that abandoned it. Skeletal evidence backs this up. A study examining hundreds of tibia and ankle bones found clear markers of habitual squatting were common through the Middle Ages, then started disappearing as chairs became furniture rather than furniture for royalty. We didn’t evolve out of squatting. We furnished our way out of it. That matters more than it sounds like it should, because the deep squat is one of the only postures that takes the hips, knees, and ankles to full range at the same time. Researchers studying the Hadza, a hunter-gatherer community in Tanzania, found something surprising: Hadza adults spend almost as much total time “sedentary” as Americans do, but they rest in squats and kneels instead of chairs. That keeps muscles like the quads and calves under light, continuous activation even while resting, which may explain why chair-bound sitting correlates with metabolic problems that squat-resting doesn’t. A chair turns your muscles off. A squat leaves them quietly on.
There’s also a plumbing argument. When you squat, the puborectalis muscle around the rectum relaxes and the anorectal angle straightens out, which is a mechanical detail that translates to a very practical result: a landmark study had people time and rate their own bowel movements sitting versus squatting, and squatting cut the time needed nearly in half while sharply reducing how hard people had to strain. Your pelvic floor was designed with a specific posture in mind, and it isn’t the one on your toilet. None of this means you need to start eating dinner in a squat. But losing the ability to do one at all, gradually, quietly, through decades of chairs, car seats, and stiff-soled shoes, is a loss worth noticing. Tight calves and stiff hips aren’t just an inconvenience at the bottom of a squat. They’re a sign of a body that’s stopped asking certain joints to do their full job. Try this next time you’re tying your shoes or petting the dog: Drop into a squat and just stay there a minute, using a wall or counter for balance if you need it. You’re not exercising. You’re returning a favor to a body that’s been waiting for you since you were four.
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Age Is Not a Punchline By Tristan Lane for The Lavender Lens One of the more fascinating — and increasingly frustrating — aspects of modern community life is the growing number of people who wish to benefit from communities they make absolutely no meaningful investment in. They appear only when they need something: a favor, a recommendation, a connection, a client, a table filled at a function, a business promoted, or an audience delivered. Then they disappear again into silence until the next request arrives. What many people fail to understand is that real communities are not vending machines. They are ecosystems built on reciprocity, visibility, participation, consistency, and mutual support. They survive because people invest time, energy, encouragement, conversation, labor, and presence into them long before they ever need anything in return. This is particularly true in LGBTQ spaces. Historically, our bars, organizations, social groups, charities, and professional networks existed because people showed up for one another. During the AIDS epidemic, our community survived not because everyone was profitable or useful, but because reciprocity existed. People volunteered. People cooked. People fundraising. People visited hospital rooms. People carried one another emotionally and financially when governments and institutions looked away. That spirit created the modern LGBTQ community. And yet today, many people approach community spaces with a purely transactional mindset. They do not attend events. They do not engage with others. They do not support charities. They do not contribute ideas, conversation, warmth, or encouragement. But the moment they launch a business, need exposure, or want customers, suddenly the “community” becomes very important to them. It is difficult to overstate how exhausting this becomes for the people who actually do the work
of building and sustaining these spaces. Communities are not built by consumers alone. They are built by contributors. If you never support others, never engage, never participate, and never invest in the ecosystem around you, eventually people notice. Reciprocity matters. Human beings instinctively understand fairness, even in social environments. You cannot permanently withdraw from a bank account you never contribute to. This does not mean every interaction must be perfectly equal or transactional. Healthy communities thrive on generosity. But generosity itself depends on a culture where people broadly show up for one another over time. The strongest communities are rarely the wealthiest or trendiest ones. They are the ones where participation becomes culture. Where people celebrate each other’s successes, attend each other’s events, volunteer, amplify, encourage, and create an environment larger than themselves. Community is not something you consume. It is something you help build.
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