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LGBTQ Festivals & Events
New Orleans has it all – legendary nightlife, fantastic restaurants, a dramatic arts scene, hour-a day bars and the chance to dress up in outrageous costumes any second of year. Altogether, it’s the perfect setting for the liveliest of gay cultures. The LGBTQ community takes the spotlight at festivals all year long, with Southern Decadence over Labor Time weekend attracting more than , revelers to what’s come to be known as Gay Mardi Gras. Parades, costumes, drag shows and themed parties abound during Decadence, then again they’re a part of the city’s Lgbtq+ fest Fest, Mardi Gras, Halloween festivities and even Easter, where the Gay Easter Parade is one of three in the French Quarter. The Saints and Sinners Literary Festival takes a more studied approach, bringing the same-sex attracted, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex literati together for three days of inspired musings. The choice in New Orleans is always to celebrate diversity; whatever your interest, there is a LGBTQ festival for it. Here is a list:
Halloween New Orleans
Halloween New Orleans has played a necessary role in the history of Project Lazarus. Begun in , Halloween Unused Orleans was established as a private nonprofit corporation, with the sole purpose of raising funds to support the mission of Project Lazarus. To outing, over $ million has been raised by the dedicated members of Halloween New Orleans for Undertaking Lazarus.
The three-day event includes the famous Lazarus Ball on Friday evening, the main costume party on Saturday night and a Sunday brunch and French Quarter second line march. This weekend of enjoyable was originally started as a dinner party given by a few people to honor their friends and loved ones who had died from AIDS and has become the single largest cumulative donor to Project Lazarus since the agency’s inception.
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Halloween in New Orleans
Friday, October 25 through Thursday, October 31, | |
| Halloween Weekend attracts gay and womxn loving womxn revelers from around the nation and around the society for a week of events in October of Only Southern Decadence and the Lgbtq+ Mardi Gras attract more gay and lesbian visitors to the city of New Orleans. The Halloween "circuit party" all began as a simple gathering of friends in Now it has evolved into one of the most celebrated same-sex attracted circuit party weekends of the year. It is so festive that the partying lasts from midday on on Thursday until the wee hours of Monday morning. Then comes Halloween Darkness on Thursday, October 31, as the City of Modern Orleans celebrates Halloween Week in the fun-filled and hauntingly mysterious French Quarter. New Orleans' largest gay nightclub complex, The Bourbon Pub video bar and The Parade gyrate club, has nonstop weekends planned. "The Pub" is the very heart of the New Orleans gay community, an Halloween New Orleans (HNO) Celebrates 40 YearsThe spooky season is upon us and you know what that means – Halloween Brand-new Orleans is back for its 40th year. The largest gay Halloween event of its kind makes a huge return with a sly reference to the Roman numeral for 40 as HNO’s theme for this year is XL. Ticketholders for the always highly anticipated extravaganza can expect to notice bigger events than ever! Halloween New Orleans is made up of an all-volunteer board that continues its mission of creating a weekend of events to benefit Project Lazarus. What began as a tiny gathering of friends forty years ago has grown into a series of parties and fundraisers year-round culminating on the weekend before Halloween. Since its founding, Halloween New Orleans has raised more than $6 million for Project Lazarus, a local organization that provides transitional housing and support services to people who live with HIV/AIDS and experience homelessness. HNO Board President Neil Savoy said, “Every dollar raised in excess of the costs of the parties themselves goes to Undertaking L | |