Celebrate Pri at New Orleans’s Gay Bars, LGBTQ-Owned Rtrants, and Queer-Friendly Spac - Eater New Orleans

Contents:

• THE 5 BEST NEW ORLEANS GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW ORLEANS
• GAY HISTORY – JULY 21, 1958: NEW ORLEANS LNCH RAIDS AGAST FRENCH QUARTER GAY BARS AND “DEVIANTS”.
• NEW ORLEANS GAY BARS
• NEW ORLEANS GAY BARS

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

A gui to New Orleans’s bt gay bars, LGBTQ-iendly spac, and Pri month celebratns.

GAY HISTORY – JULY 21, 1958: NEW ORLEANS LNCH RAIDS AGAST FRENCH QUARTER GAY BARS AND “DEVIANTS”.

Early Sprg is for the Gay Easter Para the Quarter, Southern Dence clos out summer, Saturdays are for pool scen, Sundays are for drag bnch and tea danc, and late nights are for dancg away at Oz. The bar also serv as the kickoff pot for the annual Gay Pri Para, held that Saturday, followed by all night long celebratns upstairs at the bar — which might jt be the highlight of the whole day.

Amerin Townhoe is a new gay-owned bar and rtrant om the folks behd the legendary 700 Club — if you know, you know. The Country Club the Bywater has long been an anchor of the gay scene, even if no longer pegs self as a gay bar sce the rtrant’s renovatn and new pool clothg regulatn — meang, ’s no longer optnal. A proud anchor of Bourbon Street’s “F Loop, ” Café Lafte Exile’s claim to fame is that is the olst ntuoly operatg gay bar the untry, wh the ghosts of past patrons ocsnally visg.

NEW ORLEANS GAY BARS

Good Friends is the Cheers of the New Orleans gay bar scene, where everybody lerally knows your name — if not, they will by the end of the night. Crossg Bar, which lls self “the bt gay straight food servg bar  New Orleans, ” has been a prev host for Grrlspot dance parti as well as for regular RuPl’s Drag Race viewg parti, Sats game watch parti, and pop-ups.

For as many gay and LGBTQ-iendly venu that are New Orleans, there are as few girl-only clubs. The zy Uptown gay bar is ty, but mighty wh daily drk specials, welg regulars, and entertag bartenrs.

NEW ORLEANS GAY BARS

All thgs to doBars & ClubsBar, Club & Pub ToursJazz Clubs & BarsDance Clubs & DissGay Clubs & BarsWe BarsCigar BarsPiano BarsBlu Clubs & BarsComedy ClubsKaraoke BarsCoffeehoFrench QuarterFbourg Marigny & BywaterMarignyBywater DistrictGood for a Ray DayFree EntryBudget-iendlyGood for CouplGood for Big GroupsGood for Adrenale SeekersGood for KidsHoneymoon spotHidn GemsAdventuro8 plac sorted by traveler favorWhat travelers are saygIn town for the Fal Four and general touristy stuff. Gay or straight please to stop by, and support this bar. Gay-centered but straight-iendly, ’s where one uld image Blanche DuBois would have eventually end up sippg m and k on ray afternoons had she not been so undone by Stanley.

The Cy of New Orleans, Louisiana might be known as he Big Easy today but as many ci throughout the untry durg the 1950s, members of the homosexual muny New Orleans were often victims of vlence and were often arrted bee of their sexualy. ”) mdset didn’t extend to the cy’s gay cizens, and much like other major ci across the natn, anti-gay mpaigns often heated up ahead of lol electns. In n 1958, cy uncilmen plaed that the police were stg on their hands while the French Quarter was beg vad by rovg bands of homosexuals, allegedly om other ci sce, apparently, such a thg was unheard of there, the cy’s storied tolerance for sexual eccentrics mic, lerature and the arts notwhstandg.