If you would like to be a contestant please fill out the form below. From the 1990's during the Backstreet and Armory days to now, Mama has touched many hearts, whether in a floor length gown or on a bar stool with mic in hand. She has seen many queens from Atlanta launch their careers right here on our very stage and with her advice-from RuPaul in her younger days to Violet Chachki - they have become stars! Mama truly embodies what an Atlanta icon is meant to be.
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Back in 1975, the bar opened in Atlanta and. She hosts all of Friends’ events-not just our New Faces amateur drag competition that happens every second Sunday of the month but in the spirit of a true Mother she also hosts our Toys for Tots benefit, the Big queer fundraiser, a Super Bowl watch party our Atlanta Food Bank Drive and our Fourth of July cookout complete with go-go boys!. In 2019, Smith kicked off TBTeez to sell shirts that commemorated the anniversary of the Backstreet bar. career as a performer at Backstreet Atlanta and how the gay bar scene molded his. What Mama brings to every interaction is a motherly wisdom and air. Listen to celebrities tell their stories about gay bars from the past. Always painted to a T-even when she’s calling you a whore on the mic-she is the Face of Atlanta bar Friends on Ponce. Fun Fact: Nichole got her big drag break as part of Charlie Browns Cabaret at Backstreet Atlanta, GA. Three of the clubs, Backstreet Atlanta, Club 112 and. A glitzy, rambunctious slice of Atlanta's social scene - 'private clubs' that served liquor long after other bars had closed - has come to the end of a decades-long run.
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Mama, as she is affectionately called, is a lady in the fullest form of the word. Turn out the lights: 24-hour clubbing is over.
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Regina Simms will be hosting our popular event at Friends Neighborhood bar at 736 Ponce de Leon Avenue.