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Contents:

• THE SECRET GOLN AGE OF GAY MARDI GRAS BALLS
• INSI THE UNDISVERED GAY MARDI GRAS
• ANTHONY ALBANE TO BEE FIRST STG ATRALIAN PM TO MARCH SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS
• GAY PARTI & EVENTS
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• MOSW GAY BARS

THE SECRET GOLN AGE OF GAY MARDI GRAS BALLS

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INSI THE UNDISVERED GAY MARDI GRAS

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ANTHONY ALBANE TO BEE FIRST STG ATRALIAN PM TO MARCH SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS

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Though no longer active, Yuga gave birth to other gay Carnival krew, cludg the Krewe of Petroni and the Krewe of Amon-Ra, both of which are still active. 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. Here are some of the bt-known gay Carnival balls.

GAY PARTI & EVENTS

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. One of the olst gay Carnival krew the cy, Petroni was found 1961 and has served as a jumpg-off pot for other krew.

Other Gay Carnival Events.

” Louisiana State Mm The flamboyant stum, the arne ctoms, the meldg of the genteel to the occult, the heapg rabows of beads: New Orleans Mardi Gras seems almost herently, stereotypilly gay. It was only a matter of time before gay men breached the ball divi wh high mp flourish, dazzlg drag subversn and feathered headpiec that often towered five or more feet the air. In 1958 the first explicly gay krewe, the Krewe of Yuga, held s first mock ball an Uptown home, wh a krewe Capta, a Queen (the “Yuga Rega”), a Kg, butant and maids.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

The ball was a cisive move om r, private gay gatherg to liberate, drag-filled parody.

The annual return of the Yuga Rega and her urt beme the most anticipated gay event of the season, and gowns were sewn and sequed for months preparatn. But the gay ball stake had been planted, and several more krew sprang up, willg to rry s glter-ftooned banner.

” Louisiana State Mm The orig and history of gay Carnival krew is the subject of an extensively rearched, forthg book by Smh, the first of s kd, due Febary om Universy Prs of Mississippi. “It was not a great time to be gay New Orleans – but was also a great time to be gay New Orleans, ” Smh said. “The natnwi Lavenr Sre and ernment purg of homosexuals the early ’50s had brought many gay people out of the shadows, to the glarg light.

MOSW GAY BARS

” New Orleans, wh s Carnival and tourist tra, had a reputatn for beg a tolerant cy, and so s gay populatn began to grow exponentially. Acrdg to Smh, a tightkn gay culture formed around several Bourbon Street bars like Miss Dixie’s Bar of Mic and Bourbon Hoe, which, like bars around the untry, protected their gay patrons wh “pay-offs and backdoor als.

) Along wh the Starle Room, Mack’s and the Renzvo, the spots formed a gay bar-hoppg circu that attracted lumari like playwright Tennee Williams, thor John Rechy and fashn photographer Jack Robson.

Later, 1970, a ranged man started a fire below gay bar UpStairs Lounge, which killed 32 people. ) As the gay muny grew more publicly visible, veloped s own unrground work to exprs self away om watchful ey. It was an tert Robson’s photography that led Smh to rearch and prerve gay krewe roots.

Smh, a farm boy om Arkansas, had moved to New Orleans the 1970s and spent more than 20 years on the gay ball scene.

“When I got to New Orleans, the gay culture there was somethg very special, was unlike anythg I had seen, or would see anywhere, ” he relled. ” Later, after he moved to Los Angel, Smh disvered “a treasure trove” of photographs of gay New Orleans by Robson.

It was like, here was the missg lk between the McCarthy Era reprsn of the gay muny, and how led to the birth of the gay krew. I ntacted Robson’s tate and they had whole box of negativ of his pictur of gay New Orleans at that time.

In the pictur, Smh saw how gay men had found ways to exprs themselv public by gog around the law.

But gay krew, by providg a work of theatril stag for elaborate urt tablex that prented several people “stume, ” allowed queens and their rts to drs as outrageoly as they wanted.

“The gay muny was very smart, ” Smh said. Unlike other krew, gay krew did not para public (for obv reasons the begng).