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Members of Midtown’s famous hippy community relax in Piedmont Park during a 1972 Hare Krishna festival.
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Members of Midtown’s famous hippy community relax in Piedmont Park during a 1972 Hare Krishna festival.
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A group of anonymous teens fish in Piedmont Park, ca. 1970.
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Building housing the plant and botany exhibitions at the 1895 Cotton States Exposition in Piedmont Park.
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Our city’s LGBTQIA+ history is nuanced and vast—and too complex to be contained in a single story. While this article provides an overview of more than half a century of activism in our city, it is by no means exhaustive.