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- 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
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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.
A TREASURE TROVE OF VTAGE GAY MARDI GRAS IMAG
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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.
UNED WE SHE: SYDNEY’S GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS 2022 – PICTUR
Mardi Gras 2021 photos: The bt photos om Sydney's 43rd Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, featurg sger Ra Ora at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG). * gay mardi gras pics *
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.