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Atlanta Pride weekend · Piedmont Park · Oct 10–11, 2026
Let us finish the movie.
In 1969, Atlanta police walked into a Midtown movie theater, stopped the film fifteen minutes before the end, and photographed the audience.
Today your activity and location go out to ad auctions about 747 times a day. No raid required.
The record
Before anybody argues with this page, start with the sources. Each line links to where it came from.
George Orwell published Nineteen Eighty-Four, where the telescreen watches and listens and nobody can switch it off. That same year he gave a British Foreign Office propaganda unit a list of 38 writers he suspected, with notes that flagged one man's "tendency towards homosexuality" and described Paul Robeson as hostile to white people. The list stayed secret until 2003.
Sources: Orwell's list, Telescreen
The Post Office tracked the addresses where gay material was mailed, and the FBI kept lists of people it suspected. Investigators checked employees' friends and roommates and watched who went to gay bars. In 1953 Executive Order 10450 made homosexuality grounds for firing, and an estimated 7,000 to 10,000 federal workers lost their jobs.
Sources: Princeton University Archives, OutHistory, National Park Service
Police raided the bar before dawn. People who were there credit Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera and Stormé DeLarverie with turning the crowd. DeLarverie called it a rebellion, and the first anniversary march was a protest.
Source: Amnesty International
Fifteen minutes before the end of the film, police stopped the screening, arrested staff, and photographed almost all of the roughly 70 people in the seats. Authorities confirmed the photos were to find "known homosexuals." A minister was among them. Georgia's Gay Liberation Front formed that fall.
Sources: New Georgia Encyclopedia, Georgia State University Library, Atlanta Magazine
That same front organized Atlanta's first Pride rally in the park where the festival still happens. The first march followed in 1971.
A marcher walked with a bag over their face. Showing up had a price, and people paid it and showed up anyway.
Source: Atlanta Magazine archival photo
Police put patrons face down on the floor and ran background checks on their IDs. A federal court found none of the plaintiffs was personally suspected of any crime. The city paid $1,025,000 and rewrote its search policies.
Sources: Lambda Legal, Q-Notes, Dec 2010
Shoshana Zuboff named it surveillance capitalism: an economy that treats your life as "free raw material," turns it into predictions about you, and sells them.
Source: TechTarget on Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
A group bought app location data and used it to name a priest who had visited LGBTQ+ places. He resigned. The device IDs that let brokers stitch one person together across sources are still shared today.
Sources: LGBT Tech on the FTC's Gravy Analytics complaint, EFF, June 2026
A person in the US has their online activity and location broadcast to ad auctions 747 times a day. Across the US and Europe that adds up to 178 trillion broadcasts a year.
Lonesome Cowboys screened in Atlanta for the first time in 55 years, sponsored by Atlanta Pride and Out on Film. Somebody finally got to see the ending.
Source: Atlanta Magazine
An APD audit of 115,578 license plate reader searches flagged 79 for investigation. The mayor's proposal would ban discriminatory tracking and review event cameras before they become permanent.
Source: Atlanta News First
Same move every time. A list gets made, and the harm comes from being on it, whatever you did or didn't do.
Why I'm here
I didn't learn this from a slide deck. I've lived the overreach: being watched, going from pet to threat in rooms I earned my way into, and an economy built to push people like me back out, professional settings included.
This year that followed me across 14 countries, and I kept the receipts. So I build tools that take people off the shelf. I'm defending my privacy, and I'm defending yours, whoever you love and however you show up this weekend.
Billy
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