No matter what time of year you visit the city, you’re pretty much guaranteed to find a festival or a parade. The New Orleans social calendar is a smorgasboard. When the Saints Come Marching In: Festivals and Fun I promise to show you what Southern hospitality really means. You might not find the typical gay things in New Orleans - we don’t have a big, flashy Pride, for instance. There’s a thriving young queer and trans population, and the African-American LGBT community may be one of the largest in the U.S. The city is incredibly diverse the culture of the city grows out of African and Caribbean, French creole, German, and Spanish influences. Breaking down roles, recreating identities, writing our own stories, and celebrating the uniqueness of our culture is ingrained in the essence of NOLA. How can I explain how insanely queer this city is? I’ll try my best.
What can I say? This city has a magical pull. Two decades later, I’m proud to count myself as one of them. My first memory of the city is my mother telling me, as a child, that we couldn’t stay in the hotels in the French Quarter because that’s where all the homosexuals were. I’ve lived in New Orleans for three years.
