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Atlanta Pride is celebrating 50 years of support, aid, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender pride in 2021. This rare image of the first march on June 27, 1971, is from unused WSB-TV footage, and shows Gay Liberation Front leader Bill Smith leading the crowd of marchers. (Courtesy of WSB Newsfilm Collection, University of Georgia Libraries)