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Formed in a college town that had little interest in sludgy noise-rock and named, of course, for the San Francisco gay-rights leader the Athens, Ga.

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Pam Brittingham, a bartender at The Globe in Athens, Ga.

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Friends who relocated to San Francisco and Athens, Ga.

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