Be sure and stop by on Wednesdays for church organ karaoke starting at 10pm. Or lounge on the old church pews as you wait your turn in line for a rousing game of Ping-Pong. Burkharts should be a destination for every gay traveler: its low-key but always crowded, with the most diverse set of gay Atlantans one will find out on the town. Grab a glass, head upstairs, put on the choir robes, and play a game of darts. Don't worry, it's all in a playfully mocking way (sort of), as the bar was opened by a former divinity school student -emphasis on the word "former." There's a good selection of liquor and local beers like Sweetwater on draft, as well as Spiritual Sangria, the bar's signature drink. read each poster and sign that adorns the walls-you'll find an overwhelming church motif with pithy captions etched across each picture.
Montres was a Southwest Atlanta strip club that primarily served Black straight. Although Bulldogs is known for a mature crowd, it became Thompson’s favorite bar, and he considers it a guidepost for Black gay Atlanta, linking generations throughout decades of dynamic change. On first appearance, it may look incredible dive-y, but if you peer closer-i.e. Twenty men were arrested for sodomy at a Downtown library in the 1950s. While its official name is Sister Louisa's Church of the Living Room & Ping Pong Emporium, locals simply know it as Church Bar. Sacrilege it may be, but Church Bar is a religious nightlife experience that everyone with a sense of humor and a love of fun must try at least once.