Join us as GPB Southern Lit Cadre member Jeff Calder interviews Wesley Chenault and Stacy Braukman, who have written Gay and Lesbian Atlanta. The book grew out of a 2005 Atlanta History Center exhibit called "The Unspoken Past-Atlanta Lesbian and Gay History," which explored an alternative history of Atlanta that runs parallel to the city's rise as a regional center of industry, arts, and culture.
Calder's rollicking chat with Chenault and Braukman touches on things humorous and poignant, and a time when Atlanta then, as now, was a magnet for people from across the South who came to the city to live lives they couldn't often openly live in surrounding smaller communities. If you are a student of Southern and Atlanta history, this interview will give you a new perspective.