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Contents:

• GAYT PLAC IN LOUISIANA FOR 2020
• MOVG TO GAY LOUISIANA? THG TO KNOW BEFORE RELOTG HERE AS AN LGBT PERSON.
• THE 10 BEST LOUISIANA GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS LOUISIANA
• DHH EXPERT DISCS STUDY THAT SHOWS GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN AT GREATT RISK FOR HIV

GAYT PLAC IN LOUISIANA FOR 2020

Gay rights prottors march through a French Quarter street to prott sger Ana Bryant performg New Orleans on June 18, 1977.

Rints who would now intify as “queer” have existed Louisiana sce before s foundg, but the polil movement for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) rights emerged slowly throughout the late twentieth century, as pared to other Amerin stat wh sizable queer populatns.

MOVG TO GAY LOUISIANA? THG TO KNOW BEFORE RELOTG HERE AS AN LGBT PERSON.

Into the 1970s “gay polics” was often nsired a dangero phrase Louisiana society, where same-sex acts had been illegal sce 1805.

Natnal movements such as Gay Liberatn experienced early rejectn to the 1960s, but a grassroots polil awakeng did occur 1977, when anti-homosexual spokperson and sger Ana Bryant vised New Orleans and spired a massive gay prott.

The 1980 foundg of the Louisiana Lbian and Gay Polil Actn Cc, popularly known as LAGPAC, gave the state s first staable gay polil group. In 1991 LAGPAC led a aln that secured the passage of a nondiscrimatn ordance protectg homosexuals New Orleans. Statewi efforts, however, would be largely stymied wh the exceptn of a hate-crim law protectg gays and lbians, which passed 1997.

THE 10 BEST LOUISIANA GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS LOUISIANA

Prr to World War II, “homosexualy, ” as flourished wh the state’s cultural herage, lacked a fg amework or even an agreed-upon language. It wasn’t until World War II, when draft boards intified homosexualy as a disqualifyg “4-F” characteristic, that the medil term “homosexual” entered mon age. Likewise, Louisianans rejected the words “gay” and “lbian” to the 1970s, as their e of eher was nsired an act of advocy for then-crimal behavr.

As secrecy erned same-sex behavr for several centuri, Louisiana’s earlit gay history mostly exists the form of crimal rerds for flagrant offens.

One of the first rerd stanc of homosexualy Louisiana dat to 1724. Heterosexual cizens who attacked or robbed sex “viat” (a mon midcentury term ed by police and public officials to scribe homosexuals) were rarely charged or nvicted, as such victims were nsired to be outsi the law’s protectn.

DHH EXPERT DISCS STUDY THAT SHOWS GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN AT GREATT RISK FOR HIV

For example, 1958 a Mexin tour gui named Fernando Rs was lured om a Bourbon Street gay bar and then ambhed and beaten to ath. Lol harassment ordanc to “drive out the viat” expand amid the anti-munist hysteria followg World War II, unterg a postwar populatn boom that occurred when a generatn of gay men who’d served foreign nflicts moved to ci like New Orleans. The ordanc mandated the firg of “immoral workers, ” the arrt of patrons imbibg an immoral tablishment, the evictn of gay tenants, and the seizure of property.

Gays and lbians uld also be arrted for dancg a close embrace or for “obstctn of ee passage, ” legale for blockg a siwalk.

For example, 1962, when the state’s first gay Mardi Gras anizatn, the Krewe of Yuga, held a clanste drag ball Metairie, Jefferson Parish police raid the ftivi and arrted 96 men for “disturbg the peace. Neher natnal homophile anizatns—part of an early homosexual-rights movement that emphasized sex g the Greek words homo and phile, meang “same love”— the 1950s and 1960s nor the Gay Liberatn movement, galvanized by the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg New York Cy, found eager recs among Louisiana’s gay aristocrats or s gay workg class, both of which feared exposure. For example, a New Orleans ntgent of the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF), found 1970 by workg-class gays and lbians, picketed Cy Hall and negotiated a temporary halt to police stg operatns.