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Contents:
- NEW ORLEANS GAY BARS
- CAFé LAFTE EXILE'S HISTORY AS NOLA’S OLST GAY BAR
- A ‘FOTTEN TRAGEDY’ AT A NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR AND A NEW EFFORT TO HONOR VICTIMS’ REMAS
- GAY HISTORY – JULY 21, 1958: NEW ORLEANS LNCH RAIDS AGAST FRENCH QUARTER GAY BARS AND “DEVIANTS”.
- BT GAY CLUBS NEW ORLEANS
NEW ORLEANS GAY BARS
* oldest gay bar in new orleans *
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CAFé LAFTE EXILE'S HISTORY AS NOLA’S OLST GAY BAR
Café Lafte Exile is the olst ntuoly operatg gay bar the Uned Stat. Open 24/7, a great Bourbon Street hangout * oldest gay bar in new orleans *
There are gay and gay-iendly bars all over town, but the most famo are on the French Quarter’s “Lavenr Le, ” a stretch of St Ann Street that bisects Bourbon – cludg Café Lafte’s Exile, legendary as the olst ntuoly operatg gay bar the Uned Stat.
It should e as no surprise that a cy as gay-iendly today as New Orleans has one of the olst gay bars the Uned Stat to celebrate Pri. Named the "Bt Gay Bar" the world GayTravel's 2018 Gay Travel Awards, this two-story, 24/7 tablishment holds the distctn of beg the olst ntuoly-operatg gay bar the Crcent Cy and may fact be the olst the U.
A ‘FOTTEN TRAGEDY’ AT A NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR AND A NEW EFFORT TO HONOR VICTIMS’ REMAS
After nearly 50 years, New Orleans issued a formal apology for s rponse to an arson at the popular gay bar UpStairs Lounge and renews the search for the remas of four victims. * oldest gay bar in new orleans *
Acrdg to the book, In Exile: The History and Lore Surroundg New Orleans Gay Culture and Its Olst Gay Bar, wrten by Frank Perez and Jefey Palmquist, the bar was origally opened as Café Lafte at the end of Prohibn 1933 by Tom Caplger, Harold Bartell, and Mary Colls.
While "gay bars" as we know them today technilly didn't exist the early 1900s, the owners were welg to anyone, regardls of sexualy, who walked to Café Lafte, allowg gay men to have a safe space New Orleans durg a time when LGBT rights did not exist, and the muny had to stay visible to avoid legal harassment. The bar's owners did not have enough money to purchase the buildg themselv, so Café Lafte had to close for a few months, and the buildg fell unr new—not so gay-iendly—management.
GAY HISTORY – JULY 21, 1958: NEW ORLEANS LNCH RAIDS AGAST FRENCH QUARTER GAY BARS AND “DEVIANTS”.
After reopeng s new lotn, Café Lafte Exile was New Orleans' premiere gay bar through the '50s and '60s, spe the bar's ma clientele havg to rema the closet for fear of public stigmatizatn and police harassment.
Acrdg to In Exile, the bar even veloped a reputatn as a popular cisg spot for gay men who would vis , pecially om the '60s to the '80s.
BT GAY CLUBS NEW ORLEANS
A bar that has survived hurrin, the AIDS crisis, COVID-19, and homophobia throughout the years.