A Treasure Trove of Vtage Gay Mardi Pictur - Ambh Magaze

Contents:

• A TREASURE TROVE OF VTAGE GAY MARDI PICTUR
• A TREASURE TROVE OF VTAGE GAY MARDI GRAS IMAG
• UNED WE SHE: SYDNEY’S GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS 2022 – PICTUR

A TREASURE TROVE OF VTAGE GAY MARDI PICTUR

Well, Easter may have jt passed, but we're remd of the days of gay Mardi Gras New Orleans. 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 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.

A TREASURE TROVE OF VTAGE GAY MARDI GRAS IMAG

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.

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. This weekend, as most of ntue to (mostly) quarante, or seek out a vaccatn appotment, some Atralia will be head out to Sydney's Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras.

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.

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

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

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. Want to experience the splendor of Gay Mardi Gras while supportg a good e? 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.

The world’s olst gay Mardi Gras Krewe returns for another triumphant eveng of queer rilience. 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.