GA HR1022

Georgia House Resolution 1022 recognizes and commends Willis Bivins for his commitment to social justice causes and his work seeking justice for the rights of all people

Willis Bivins was born on January 22, 1942, in Birmingham, Alabama, and his family was forced out of the city due to Ku Klux Klan harassment stemming from his father Alfred Bivins' advocacy for equal rights

Bivins graduated from Guilford College in 1966 with a political science degree, worked at United Press International and the New York Times International Desk, and marched in the first Pride event—the 1970 Christopher Street Liberation Day march—with his scrapbooks from that march now housed at Emory University's Woodruff Library

After returning to Birmingham in 1971 to care for his father, he helped integrate gay bars in the city, then moved to Atlanta in 1974 where he co-founded Atlanta Black and White Men Together, Atlanta Men for All Cultures, and the Atlanta SAGE chapter

The Clerk of the House of Representatives is directed to provide an appropriate copy of the resolution to Willis Bivins