Mag's 940 - Gay Bar New Orleans

Contents:

• DID DISCRIMATN AGAST WOMEN LEAD TO A SEX CRACKDOWN NEW ORLEANS GAY BARS?
• BT GAY CLUBS NEW ORLEANS
• NEW ORLEANS GAY BARS
• GAY NEW ORLEANS
• PHOENIX GAY BARS
• GAY PHOENIX
• NEW ORLEANS GAY BARS ARE NOT BEG UNFAIRLY TARGETED. IT’S ACTUALLY MUCH MORE DISAPPOTG.

DID DISCRIMATN AGAST WOMEN LEAD TO A SEX CRACKDOWN NEW ORLEANS GAY BARS?

Some have assumed that the imposns on Phoenix and Rawhi 2010 have been polilly motivated, perhaps the rult of a homophobic wch hunt (“an attack on one of is an attack on all , ” read a msage posted by Phoenix management on the bar’s Facebook Febary), but a recent article New Orleans LGBTQ magaze Ambh pats a more nuanced picture of vtigatns arisg om direct plats that are the rult of muny -fightg and sexual discrimatn. Perez was unable to nfirm exactly who lodged the plat, so nnectg to the cints of women beg turned away is rmed speculatn (Perez adms as much his piece) after the Rawhi plat was filed, the ATC performed a pliance check, which an unrage operative was sold a beer whout beg rd, and several unrver vtigatns, which agents wnsed (and rerd wh hidn meras, which is legal and acrdg to protol, said Leiger) sex acts, hardre gay porn on multiple TV sets, pup play and popper e. ”Via his vtigatn, Perez nclus that the bars were not targeted as a rult of a homophobic agenda.

BT GAY CLUBS NEW ORLEANS

Perez’s story is not jt well-rearched procral journalism, ’s a straightforward narrative that acts like a Rsian ntg doll of several hot-button issu wh the LGBTQ muny—women gay bars signated for men, muny -fightg, public-sex spac (and their ntued illegaly).

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

NEW ORLEANS GAY BARS

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.

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.

GAY NEW ORLEANS

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. Many the gay muny are outraged by what they perceive as homophobic attacks on safe queer spac.

PHOENIX GAY BARS

The mon theme of all the headl is that gay bars are liberately beg targeted. A reful examatn of the evince monstrat that the unrver vtigatns of both bars were not the rult of a moral csa stigated by relig zealots or Puranil policians or homophobic csars. There is no lol effort on the part of the Cy of New Orleans to persecute gay September 6, 2018, someone filed a plat agast Rawhi wh the New Orleans Police Department, who turn referred the plat to the Louisiana Office of Alhol and Tobac Control.

Durg their viss to Rawhi, the agents wnsed (and surreptly rerd wh hidn meras) multiple sex acts (cludg oral, anal, and masturbatn), hardre gay pornography on multiple televisn sets, pup play, and popper e. ” It’s an important qutn bee the answer would shed light on the larger issue of whether the ATC is targetg gay asked who filed the plat agast Rawhi, Legier said, “The ial plat me om another law enforcement agency and volved a ncern that there were unr-aged prostut workg the bar. Homophobic Targetg?

Dpe the perceptn wh our muny that gay bars are beg targeted, the aforementned evince suggts otherwise. When asked directly if the ATC is targetg gay bars, Legier stated:“The agency ni that ‘targets’ any permted lotn due to the sexual orientatn, race, ethnicy, relign, age or sex of the ownership, management or clientele.

GAY PHOENIX

”The argument agast the claim that the ATC is persecutg or targetg gay bars is as, everythg would be “bs as ual” at both bars if someone had not filed the ial plat agast Rawhi.

”Fourth, Commissner Lombard, who heads the ATC, has no history of “gog after” gay bars. 27, 2019, the New Orleans Human Relatns Commissn, which falls unr the spic of the Mayor’s office, issued the followg statement support of the New Orleans gay bars ced by the ATC:“We are aware of the recent enforcement actns taken agast The Phoenix, The Rawhi, and others.

NEW ORLEANS GAY BARS ARE NOT BEG UNFAIRLY TARGETED. IT’S ACTUALLY MUCH MORE DISAPPOTG.

”In addn, Taylor reports that several New Orleans Cy Councilpersons reached out to him to exprs their support and assure him the cy was not targetg gay AftermathOn Febary 23, the Phoenix published this statement on s Facebook page:“We want to take this moment to thank everyone for the outpourg of support om our credibly loyal and beloved Phoenix fay.

The catns were not unlike what we have seen them recently give other gay bars. Pl, nsirg his opposn, he knows LGBT+ voters (and more specifilly gay men) have no one else to vote for when they get the votg a posive note, after meetg wh Taylor and Pasquanton, Commissner Lombard is willg to open a dialogue to hear and addrs the ncerns so many our muny have exprsed ncerng the loss of queer spac. In the meantime, those lost spac reprent a loss of gay culture bemoaned by many.