300 Years of Local LGBT+ History
1724 – First written reference to homosexuality in New Orleans
1805 – Sodomy outlawed in Louisiana 1848 Walt Whitman lives in New Orleans
1848 – Gaston Pontalba designs cast-ironwork on Pontalba Buildings 1876 Tony Jackson born
1922 – William Spratling moves to New Orleans
1930 – George Dureau born
1933 – Café La tte opens
1939 – James Booker born
1940 – Frances Benjamin Johnston moves to New Orleans
1946 – Tennessee Williams writes A Streetcar Named Desire
1949 – Dixie’s Bar of Music relocates to Bourbon Street
1953 – Steamboat Club founded
1955 – NOPD Superintendent declares homosexuals “Number 1 vice problem” 1958 Krewe of Yuga founded; birth of Gay Carnival
1958 – Fernando Rios murdered in Pirate’s Alley
1958 – Mayor Morrison creates “Committee on the Problem of Sex Deviates” 1958 Tony Bacino’s raided six times 1960 New Orleans chapter of Daughters of Bilitis founded (year is approximate)
1961 – Krewe of Petronius founded 1962 Tee Corrinne attends Newcomb College Institute
1963 – John Rechy’s City of Night published
1965 – Krewe of Amon Ra founded 1967 Claw Shaw charged in the JFK assassination
1968 – Krewe of Armeinius founded 1970 Gay Liberation Front local chapter founded
1971 – GLF holds a “Gay-In” at City Park
1971 – Barbara Scott runs for House of Representatives
1971 – New Orleans Metropolitan Community Church founded
1972 – First Southern Decadence party 1972 Tulane University Gay Student Union founded
1973 – Up Stairs Lounge arson
1973 – Gay People’s Coalition founded 1974 Gay Services Center founded
1975 – Gertrude Stein Society founded 1977 Anita Bryant protest and march 1977 Charlene’s opens
1977 – Impact founded
1977 – Serial killer murders four gay men
1978 – Faubourg Marigny bookstore opens
1978 – Pink Triangle Alliance hosts city’s rst Gay Pride rally
1979 – Gayfest founded
1980 – Louisiana Lesbian and Gay Political Action Caucus (LAGPAC) founded
1980 – First Gay Pride Parade in New Orleans
1981 – First Louisiana State Conference held at the Country Club
1982 – Ambush founded
1982 – New Orleans chapter of PFLAG founded
1982 – New Orleans Gay Men’s Chorus founded
1983 – NO/AIDS Task Force founded 1983 Lords of Leather founded
1983 – Celebration founded
1985 – Lazarus House opens
1987 – Krewe of Queenateenas founded
1988 – AIDS Memorial Quilt displayed in New Orleans
1989 – Forum for Equality founded 1990 ACT UP New Orleans shuts down Loyola Ave. to protest lack of AIDS funding
1991 – City Council passes non-discrimination ordinance
1991 – Women With a Vision founded 1992 Lesbian and Gay Community Center of New Orleans founded
1993 – Belle Reve opens
1993 – Oz opens
1994 – New Orleans Bears and Bear Trappers Social Club founded
1995 – Louisiana State Museum sponsors panel on gay and lesbian culture 1997 J.B. Harter’s Encounters With The Nude Male published
1998 – Krewe of Mwindo founded 2002 Krewe of Satyricon founded 2002 Cavaliers Motorcycle Club founded
2003 – Saints and Sinners Literary Festival founded
2006 – GrrlSpot founded
2011 – BreakOUT! founded
2012 – Last lesbian bar in New Orleans (Rubyfruit Jungle) closes
2012 – Renegade Bears of Louisiana founded
2013 – Last Call: Dyke Bar History Project founded
2013 – Krewe of Narcissus founded 2014 LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana founded
2014 – Club New Orleans closes
2014 – Louisiana Equality Foundation founded
2015 – New Orleans Advocates for GLBT Elders (NOAGE) founded
2016 – Krewe de la Rue Royale Revelers founded
