While Midtown power gays rub shoulders with east Atlanta queers on busy nights, young kinksters in their first harnesses flirt with old-school leathermen and leatherwomen. That’s one thing I’ve worked on the hardest.” His work is evident in the crowd, with kinksters across the gender spectrum present. “When I first took over the Eagle, there was a bit of a stigma situation,” he told them. Richard Ramey, its longtime proprietor, took this responsibility seriously, making it his mission to be more welcoming to women when he started running the bar 22 years ago.
