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Contents:
- GAY CARNIVAL
- UNVEILG THE ME: THE LOST HISTORY OF GAY CARNIVAL NEW ORLEANS
- GAY MEN POSTERS AND ART PRTS
GAY CARNIVAL
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Gay Carnival tradns began mid-twentieth-century New Orleans as a genr-bendg parody of ele Mardi Gras tradns, particularly the humorls ronatn balls of aristocratic, segregated clubs like Rex and the Mistick Krewe of Com. After the rise of gay Carnival krew the 1960s and 1970s, queer culture beme a mastay of Carnival New Orleans and a force for LGBTQ+ visibily and muny engagement Louisiana.
UNVEILG THE ME: THE LOST HISTORY OF GAY CARNIVAL NEW ORLEANS
One of Mardi Gras Day’s great allur for gay men, therefore, was the abily to exprs onelf stume and, a sense, be seen public whout fear of arrt. Gay life and maskg beme rrelated ncepts this era, as gay men often lerally masked themselv while Mardi Gras stume and also symbolilly masked themselv as “bachelors” to avoid discrimatn when Carnival end.
“I was raised to be a pole young gentleman, ” relled gay Carnival pneer John Henry Bogie the 2010 documentary The Sons of Tennsee Williams.
“We did not discs my beg gay.
GAY MEN POSTERS AND ART PRTS
Gradually, gay men challenged anti-maskg laws and societal nventns. The first gay Mardi Gras club, the Fat Monday Luncheon, began 1949. This tradnal rtrant bnch for gay iends culmated the reveal of a tiara and the crowng of one gut as “queen” of the luncheon.