Aug. 5, 2022

The Lonesome Cowboys Raid

The Lonesome Cowboys Raid

August 5,1969. Police in Atlanta, Georgia raid a screening of Andy Warhol’s underground film, Lonesome Cowboys, triggering a wave of protests that sparks the gay rights movement in the Deep South.


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