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Spotlight on Saints and Sinners LGBTQ Literary Festival Speakers

December 17, 2019 By Frank Perez

In this series, we introduce you to some of the writers in the all-star lineup for #SAS20 this March in the heart of the French Quarter. Recipient of a Lambda Literary Award, two Publishing Triangle awards, and a Violet Quill award, Trebor Healey is the author of A Horse Named Sorrow, Faun and Through It Came Bright Colors, as well as a poetry collection, Sweet Son of Pan, … [Read more...] about Spotlight on Saints and Sinners LGBTQ Literary Festival Speakers

Southern Food and Beverage Museum & Museum of the American Cocktail

December 17, 2019 By Frank Perez

The Southern Food & Beverage Museum is a nonprofit living history organization dedicated to the discovery, understanding, and celebration of the food, drink and the related culture of the South. While based in New Orleans, the Museum examines and celebrates all the cultures that have come together through the centuries to create the South’s unique culinary heritage. The … [Read more...] about Southern Food and Beverage Museum & Museum of the American Cocktail

The Bookstore on Frenchmen

December 17, 2019 By Frank Perez

In 1977, Tom M. Horner, a former Episcopal priest, had two things on his mind—finishing his book on homosexuality in the Bible, and opening a gay & lesbian-themed bookstore.  By 1978, Jonathan Loved David: Homosexuality in Biblical Times was published by the Westminster Press and Horner signed a lease on a space for a bookstore at the corner of Frenchmen and Chartres … [Read more...] about The Bookstore on Frenchmen

Book Review: Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder

December 17, 2019 By Frank Perez

Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder.  John Waters.  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. 384 pages. John Waters, filmmaker, actor, writer, & visual artist, is one of those cultural institutions that people either get or don’t get and never the twain shall meet.  Or shall they?  Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder may … [Read more...] about Book Review: Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder

Backstreet Cultural Museum

December 3, 2019 By Frank Perez

Located in the heart of Treme, the Backstreet Cultural Museum is a New Orleans treasure.  Technically opened in 1999, the museum had its origins years earlier in 1988 when Sylvester Francis, who used to march with the Gentlemen of Leisure Social Aid & Pleasure Club, began displaying photographs and other memorabilia in his two-car garage.  Mardi Gras Indian tribes … [Read more...] about Backstreet Cultural Museum

Gay Zoo Day: Tales of Seeking and Discovery

December 3, 2019 By Frank Perez

Gay Zoo Day: Tales of Seeking and Discovery.  Mike McClelland.  Beautiful Dreamer Press, 2017.   274 pages. Every now and then, I stumble upon a book I didn’t know I was looking for.  Gay Zoo Day by Mike McClelland is one such book.  Imminently satisfying, this debut collection of short stories is breathtaking in its warmth and scope.  Before … [Read more...] about Gay Zoo Day: Tales of Seeking and Discovery

Remembering the Legacy of Chris Daigle

December 3, 2019 By Frank Perez

Christopher Daigle was a banker before he became a gay activist in the early 1990s.  Educated at Loyola University, Fairfield University and Dartmouth College, Daigle settled in New Orleans and took a job as the Director of the Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Life at Tulane University, Daigle became involved in LAGPAC and led the organization for roughly … [Read more...] about Remembering the Legacy of Chris Daigle

Spotlight on Saints and Sinners LGBTQ Literary Festival Speakers

December 3, 2019 By Frank Perez

In this series, we introduce you to some of the writers in the all-star lineup for #SAS20 this March in the heart of the French Quarter. Deb Jannerson is an award-winning, Pushcart-nominated author. Her YA debut, The Women of Dauphine (NineStar Press, 2019), a New Orleanian lesbian ghost story, received praise from Kirkus Reviews, LoveBytes, and Ambush. She also has two … [Read more...] about Spotlight on Saints and Sinners LGBTQ Literary Festival Speakers

The Rose Room, the Goldenrod Inn, and Police Raids

November 19, 2019 By Frank Perez

There have always been queer people in New Orleans, and while the city currently looks favorably upon us, it wasn’t always so.  It wasn’t too long ago that rainbow flags on Rampart Street and Mayoral proclamations for Pride and Southern Decadence would have been inconceivable.  The New Orleans Police Department was still raiding gay bars as recently as the … [Read more...] about The Rose Room, the Goldenrod Inn, and Police Raids

How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don’t

November 19, 2019 By Frank Perez

How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don’t.  Lane Moore.  Atria Paperback, 2018.  215 pages.   Good books make you think or feel.  Great books do both.  How to Be Alone is a great book. Moore has transcended an abysmal childhood marked by neglect and abuse.  Nothing unique about that, but what makes Moore’s story so … [Read more...] about How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don’t

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