Sitch Magazine

Happy Pride Month! BE WHO YOU ARE FOR YOUR PRIDE! 🏳️‍🌈🗣️

For Pride Month, we’re looking at Atlanta as a birthplace, stage, and sanctuary for LGBTQ+ brilliance across the American South.

From drag and nightlife to fashion, beauty, music, politics, and public performance, these eight Atlanta icons helped shape the city’s cultural imagination, and in some cases, the world’s.
Mr. Charlie Brown gave Atlanta drag one of its most beloved and enduring figures. RuPaul helped carry Southern drag brilliance into global pop culture. Baton Bob turned the city’s streets into a stage of joy and visibility. Miss Lawrence and Derek J defined Atlanta glamour across beauty, fashion, and television. Bill Smith, Lil Nas X, and Cathy Woolard each represent a different kind of cultural effect—from creative influence to political visibility to expanding what Southern q***r possibility can look like.

This list is a starting point, a love letter, and a reminder that Atlanta’s LGBTQ+ history is not separate from the city’s culture; rather, it is central to it.

Who would you add? 🏳️‍🌈

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