2023 Global Gay Pri Calendar

Contents:

• GAY PRIS 2023 AND 2024
• GAY CARNIVAL
• INFO ABOUT R CARNIVAL 2024 FOR GAYS
• THE 8 TOP GAY CIS FOR 2023
• A NOLA HISTORY OF GAY MARDI GRAS | GAY NEW ORLEANS MARDI GRAS
• GAY R CARNIVAL
• THE LOST HISTORY OF GAY CARNIVAL
• SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS
• LGBT EVENTS & GAY PRI FTIVALS AND CARNIVAL COLOGNE
• SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT

GAY PRIS 2023 AND 2024

The LGBTQ+ rights movement has ma tremendo stris over the past few s and much of the progrs visibily is thanks part to gay pri paras and march that have taken place ci around the world. The global landspe for LGBTQ+ rights, protectns and acceptance vari tremendoly by lotn, wh some statns attractg lns of visors to their events like Madrid Gay Pri, Sao Plo Gay Pri or San Francis Gay Pri, while more than 70 other untri have laws that allow discrimatn or persecutn of LGBTQ+ people. Gay Pri or rather LGBTQ+ pri events (ed to be more clive), cludg pri paras and ftivals were started major urban centers to improve the visibily, acceptance and legal protectns for LGBTQ+ people livg those muni.

GAY CARNIVAL

In June of 1969, a group of LGBTQ+ people New York Cy rted followg a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar loted on Christopher Street Greenwich Village. This seri of events was a turng pot for the LGBTQ+ muny and marks one of the most signifint events leadg to the morn gay rights movement.

As the years went on, addnal ci North Ameri and Europe began to hold their own public monstratns or pri day, eventually leadg to what we know today as a gay pri para, march, celebratn or ftival. Most gay pri paras and events also occur durg a peak season of the year when the weather most ial, yet another reason to book your trip durg the event. Whether travelg alone, wh iends or fay, visg durg a gay pri event n be a fun way to experience a new statn and IGLTA n help you fd LGBTQ-iendly bs almost any lotn to help make you trip memorable, safe and excg.

We have published this lendar to rm the LGBTQ+ muny of important gay pri events and paras globally to offer a plete source for planng your travel. While the first official gay Carnival krewe, the Krewe of Yuga, was formed the late 1950s, “Gay Mardi Gras” had been gog on unrground way before then. Though no longer active, Yuga gave birth to other gay Carnival krew, cludg the Krewe of Petroni and the Krewe of Amon-Ra, both of which are still active.

INFO ABOUT R CARNIVAL 2024 FOR GAYS

While on the surface Mardi Gras appears to be no more than a party, many say Gay Mardi Gras helped her the Gay Rights Movement the Uned Stat.

Typilly held on the Saturday before Mardi Gras Day, Armei’ missn is to prerve the ctoms of gay Carnival and to help te those who seek to learn more. From annual extravaganzas thrown by gay Mardi Gras krew to block parti that ve you to leave your hibns at home, every day of gay Carnival is an opportuny to show up as you are, wherever you are. In Carnival tradn, Twelfth Night marks the mencement of the season’s paras and ftivi, and the Mystik Krewe la Rue Royale Revelers kicks off style wh a night of grand, gay jubilatn at the Mardi Gras Mm of Costum and Culture.

THE 8 TOP GAY CIS FOR 2023

But those who are lucky enough to attend this dazzlg formal event get to wns a gay Mardi Gras tradn that has been gog strong for nearly 60 years.

Everythg om the outlandish and satiril to the formal and refed feels right at home this legendary Bal Masque, which ntu to sell tickets to the public to pass on the history and grand tradn of gay Mardi Gras. Found at a time when anti-gay laws were still place much of the untry, this Krewe has long been revered for s ditn to ung the LGBTQ muny, even when was dangero or difficult to do so. Tap to your bawdy si wh the only krewe the untry that specifilly ters to the gay leather muny while promotg tn, raisg public awarens, and dismantlg stigmatizatn of this often-overlooked (and prejudged) queer subculture.

A NOLA HISTORY OF GAY MARDI GRAS | GAY NEW ORLEANS MARDI GRAS

Gay Carnival tradns began mid-twentieth-century New Orleans as a genr-bendg parody of ele Mardi Gras tradns, particularly the humorls ronatn balls of aristocratic, segregated clubs like Rex and the Mistick Krewe of Com.

After the rise of gay Carnival krew the 1960s and 1970s, queer culture beme a mastay of Carnival New Orleans and a force for LGBTQ+ visibily and muny engagement Louisiana. One of Mardi Gras Day’s great allur for gay men, therefore, was the abily to exprs onelf stume and, a sense, be seen public whout fear of arrt. Gay life and maskg beme rrelated ncepts this era, as gay men often lerally masked themselv while Mardi Gras stume and also symbolilly masked themselv as “bachelors” to avoid discrimatn when Carnival end.

“I was raised to be a pole young gentleman, ” relled gay Carnival pneer John Henry Bogie the 2010 documentary The Sons of Tennsee Williams.

GAY R CARNIVAL

When the Krewe of Yuga, the first gay Mardi Gras krewe, formed 1958, they took genr-play to a new level by holdg private drag balls, where gay men put on women’s attire and prented themselv as “queens, ” or godss figur.

Dixie Fasnacht, owner of Dixie’s Bar of Mic, a popular Bourbon Street gay bar wh a si door “For Male Bachelors Only, ” knew many Yuga members.

Although Yuga was no more, s spir flourished through former members, and the krew of Petroni (1961), Amon-Ra (1965), Ganyme (1967), Olymp (1970), and Apollo (1970) formed out of whe gay cliqu, mirrorg the racial segregatn of Louisiana. As homosexual associatn remaed illegal, no gay krewe uld risk sponsorg a para or public event that would intify—or “out”—s membership and imperil their safety. Seekg legal ver 1966, Petroni beme the first gay krewe Louisiana to rporate and obta a state charter to operate a Mardi Gras anizatn.

THE LOST HISTORY OF GAY CARNIVAL

Gog “legimate, ” as Petroni -founr Bill Wooley put , had the effect of gay krew upgradg their balls to formal affairs requirg tuxedos, gowns, and/or upsle drag and tickets mand at the door.

” For example, 1972 Apollo beme the first gay krewe to hold a ball at the Municipal Audorium, where the ele urts of Rex and Com tradnally met. A typil gay ball New Orleans differed markedly om mastream balls by elimatg tilln-like procsns of upper-cst women and makg gay men the stars of each “table, ” or staged scen wh stume, mic, and dér curated around a theme. ” The populary and productn value of gay balls creased si by si, and gay krewe members began vtg hundreds, if not thoands, of dollars each year to premier extravagant ball tablex (French for “tables” and the preferred term krewe lgo) to gay society.

SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS

Startg the mid-1960s gay krew began formally petg for “bt of” tl at the annual Bourbon Street Awards, where rhton and glter led the 900 block of Bourbon Street on Mardi Gras Day.

As the hype beme amplified, tickets to gay balls were veted by celebri like transgenr activist Christe Jenson and Rollg Stone journalist Hunter S. “The gay balls of New Orleans are even more ele than those given by straight society, ” touted the gay New Orleans newspaper Impact 1979.

Although primarily social nature, gay krew ocsnally flexed their fluence by takg stanc agast public figur wh anti-homosexual agendas. In 1969 Orleans Parish District Attorney Jim Garrison’s famo trial outed ele New Orleanian Clay Shaw by accg Shaw of nspirg to assassate Print Kennedy as a “homosexual thrill killg. Appealg to the gay muny, Connick gave a prentatn at a gay uple’s French Quarter home, where he promised to end the threat of police raids on lol gay bars.

LGBT EVENTS & GAY PRI FTIVALS AND CARNIVAL COLOGNE

In rponse to a planned 1977 ncert seri at the Municipal Audorium for celebry sger and anti-homosexual spokperson Ana Bryant, all but two gay krew joed a polil aln lled Human Equal Rights for Everyone (HERE).

Opposg Bryant’s views and nttg the public funds supportg her vis, HERE anized one of the largt gay rights ralli the early history of the LGBTQ+ rights movement Louisiana at New Orleans’s Jackson Square. Legacy krew such as Amon-Ra and Petroni as well as the more ntemporary Lords of Leather, a leather-liftyle-oriented gay Carnival krewe, crafted or amend bylaws to accept female membership. In 1985, gay krew New Orleans worked vertly wh sympathetic Roman Catholic prit Bob Pawell to nvert an empty nvent the Marigny neighborhood to an AIDS hospice lled Project Lazas.

“Image kgs and queens of gay Mardi Gras scbbg the floors tryg to make the place prentable, ” relled gay Carnival veteran Albert Carey, who served as rmal archect of the project. Gay balls of the Reagan era turned to fashnable fundraisers for hospice centers like Project Lazas, which largely operated on volunteers om gay krew.

SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT

Though gay krew face a generatnal dilemma, wh gay men now openly servg as kgs and ptas of mastream krew and gay-exclive spac disappearg natnwi, gay Carnival remas a highlight of Mardi Gras season New Orleans, Lafayette, Hoton, and Mobile.