Jt time for Southern Dence, historian Frank Perez tells the tal of vibrant gay New Orleans.
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MOMENTS GAY NEW ORLEANS HISTORY
The sle of Southern Dence, markg s 46th anniversary 2017, and the gay tradns sprouted om Mardi Gras show the celebratn of the New Orleans LGBTQ muny. * lgbt history new orleans *
New Orleans has always been a cy that champned the arts and celebrated culture, which has fostered a lively gay social scene and drew many LGBTQ artists and performers to the French Quarter, home to Café Lafte Exile, one of Ameri’s olst gay bars. The longt nng gay event, the Fat Monday Luncheon, kicked off 1949, and the olst gay social anizatn, the Steamboat Club, was lnched 1953.