Gay Carnival - 64 Parish

Contents:

• A TREASURE TROVE OF VTAGE GAY MARDI PICTUR
• UNED WE SHE: SYDNEY’S GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS 2022 – PICTUR
• GALLONS OF GLTER, DARG OUTFS AND EVEN FACE MASKS AT SYDNEY'S GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS
• INSI THE UNDISVERED GAY MARDI GRAS
• THE SECRET GOLN AGE OF GAY MARDI GRAS BALLS
• GAY CARNIVAL

A TREASURE TROVE OF VTAGE GAY MARDI PICTUR

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 Though no longer active, Yuga gave birth to other gay Carnival krew, cludg the Krewe of Petroni and the Krewe of Amon-Ra, both of which are still active.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

UNED WE SHE: SYDNEY’S GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS 2022 – PICTUR

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.

Tickets and pacy are limed, so don’t wa to secure your spot this n’t-miss rnerstone of gay rnival.

GALLONS OF GLTER, DARG OUTFS AND EVEN FACE MASKS AT SYDNEY'S GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS

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.

INSI THE UNDISVERED GAY MARDI GRAS

Bee the Clover Grill was loted the “gay” sectn of Bourbon Street, directly across om Café Lafte Exile (the cy’s olst gay bar), the ntt drew a mostly gay crowd and featured mostly gay nttants, many of whom wore stum om the table balls they had attend jt days or weeks earlier.

THE SECRET GOLN AGE OF GAY MARDI GRAS BALLS

The show soon took on a life of s own and is now s 60th the 1960s, when closet doors were firmly shut and New Orleans was much more homophobic than is now, Mardi Gras was the only day of the year people uld legally cross-drs. Southern Dence was years away and Mardi Gras was the premiere day each year for gay revelry the Quarter.

The pri and nfince that the drag queens posssed through clearly Crews’ other slis show intifiable members of early gay Carnival krew, cludg Petroni, Amon-Ra, Armei, and Olymp, appearg on the street their Ball stum and participatg the Bourbon Street Awards. Nick Donovan as kg and Gene Cheatham as queen/ om Olymp’ Camelot Ball (Courty of the Louisiana State Mm; Joe Crews, photographer)Gay Carnival historian Howard P. Smh observ, “The mere mentn of the word Camelot wh the secretive realm of gay Carnival still evok a sense of wonr, magic, awe, and ultimately envy.

Hagler, the Louisiana Mm Foundatn, and the Louisiana State the learship of curator Phillips, the State Mm has a long history of documentg and prervg gay Carnival.

GAY CARNIVAL

The mm’s Carnival llectn clus gay Carnival Ball stum (Phillips doubl as the Curator of Costum and Textil), vio footage of Carnival balls, vatns and programs om balls, mut and not om krewe meetgs, and other memorabilia. In 2019 and 2020, the State Mm hosted an exhib at the Prbytere lled “Grand Illns: The History and Artistry of Gay Carnival New Orleans.