Alex Wan, the first gay and the first Asian American member of the Atlanta City Council, has seen first-hand how Georgia’s largest city has grown into an economic powerhouse in a journey along with the rest of the South.

Wan, 58, is an Atlanta native who is running for his fourth term on the council and is unopposed for the November 4 election.

“I did not have a challenger this cycle, so I will be back in office in January,” he told the Bay Area Reporter in a phone interview. 

He said the 1996 Summer Olympics being held in Atlanta was a pivotal moment for the city’s evolution.

“I grew up in Atlanta, so I’ve watched the city really evolve in terms of being a small Southern, but still major, city, to a large metropolitan international hub, and so even with the last census, we’ve seen tha

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