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New Orleans
is one of America's most colorful cities and boasts a rich tradition for
glbtq people. The city is both a popular travel destination for gay men and
lesbians and the home of a diverse glbtq community. |
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The
Society of St. Anne parading in New Orleans'
French Quarter during
Mardi Gras |
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 Truman Capote
(1924-1984) was a New Orleans-born novelist and autobiographer who
helped establish the quintessential homosexual writing style of the
1950s and 1960s. |
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George Dureau
(b. 1930)
is a New Orleans artist known for his male figure studies and narrative
paintings, and for his photographs, which often feature street youths,
dwarfs, and amputees. |
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Jazz, an
essential element of New Orleans' cultural heritage, has often been
hostile to glbtq performers. Despite that hostility, glbtq musicians
have made significant contributions. |
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 Frances Benjamin
Johnston (1864-1952) served as the official White House
photographer and earned fame as a photojournalist and documentary
photographer. She retired to New Orleans in 1940. |
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Mardi Gras
is a festival
known for wild abandon, sexual promiscuity, feasting, dancing,
parading, and masquerade. New Orleans is home to the most famous
Mardi Gras festival in North America. |
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New Orleans Mardi
Gras Krewes are clubs organized to stage parades, balls, or parties
during Carnival season. The first gay krewe emerged in 1958, and many
others have formed since. |
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Lyle Chambers Saxon
(1891-1946)
was a New Orleans writer who is remembered primarily as an editor and
friend to writers, as well as an architectural preservationist and
beloved public personality. |
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Clay Shaw
(1913-1974) was a prominent New Orleans business-
man falsely accused and tried for assassinating President John
F. Kennedy. His homosexuality made him vulnerable to attack by a
politically ambitious district attorney. |
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John Kennedy Toole
(1936-1969) wrote Confederacy of Dunces (posthumously
published in 1980), a book many
consider the quintessential novel of post-World War II New Orleans. |
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 Tennessee Williams
(1911-1983), a renowned playwright who frequently lived in New Orleans,
enjoyed great success in his early plays, but saw his star fade later
in life. |
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Photo
Credits: Image of parade by Ted-Larry Pebworth, courtesy Ted-Larry
Pebworth. Images of Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams courtesy
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. |
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