Acknowledgments Introduction Gay Carnival Dixie''s, Yuga, and Gay Carnival The Children of Yuga The Lost Krewes of Gay Carnival Mardi Gras and Mythology Remembering Polyphemus Bars and Gay Spaces The Queer Quarter: A Moveable Feast Bourbon Street Gets Its First Gay Bar The Glory Days of North Rampart Street The Lavender Line: Jerry Menefee, St. Ann, and Bourbon The Phoenix Rises from the Ashes of Smoky Mary HIV/AIDS How the Greed of an Insurance Company Almost Killed John East Acting Up in New Orleans NO/AIDS Task Force Project Lazarus Belle Reve Arts and Letters Gay Letters and Desire The Gay Lens: Frances Benjamin Johnston and Pops Whitesell The Gentlemanly Last Years of George Dureau Tennessee Williams: Out in the Quarter; In on the Stage Was John Kennedy Toole Gay? A Climate of Hostility Crimes against Nature Climate of Hostility The Persecution of Tony Bacino''s Bar The Gay Bashing Murder of Fernando Rios The Rose Room, the Goldenrod Inn, and Police Raids Activism Activism and Ink The Gay Liberation Front Marches on City Hall Anita Bryant Comes to New Orleans The Southeastern Conference of Lesbians and Gay Men Gay Bars, Gender Discrimination, and Boycotts--1980s Style Activists Lion in Winter: A Tribute to Stewart Butler Courtney Sharp: Unsung Trans Hero Queer Pioneer Skip Ward Remembering Charlene Schneider Go Your Own Way: The Life of Barbara Scott Organizations For the Love of Song--The New Orleans Gay Men''s Chorus Jeanne Manford and New Orleans PFLAG Metropolitan Community Church LGBT Community Center of New Orleans The LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana Turns a Year Old The Up Stairs Lounge Fire Remembering the Up Stairs Lounge Fire The Saga of Ferris LeBlanc''s Mortal Remains Recently Discovered Document Sheds Light on the Aftermath of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire Remembering the Rev. Bill Larson Interest in the Up Stairs Lounge Fire at an All-Time High Southern Decadence How Labor Day Weekend Became Decadent The Two Sides of Decadence Grand Marshal Observations Tiffany Alexander and Southern Decadence 2011 Southern Decadence 2020 Update: The Southern Decadence That Wasn''t Journalism and Media Remembering Rip Rip and Marsha: The Early Years Rich Magill and His Times Valda Lewis and Just for the Record Michael-Chase: Out on the Radio Preservation Queer Eye for Preservation William Ratcliffe Irby: A Gay Man of Consequence The Gay Twenties and the French Quarter Renaissance Remembering Clay Shaw LGBT+ National Landmarks in New Orleans Entertainment Entertainingly Out: Tony Jackson and Patsy Valdelar My O My! The Most Interesting Women Aren''t Women at All James Booker: The Black Liberace Boys on the Bar: The Corner Pocket John Q. Hustler Pride The Archbishop, Sissies in Struggle, and Gay Pride A Pride Parade to Remember The Politics of Pride Reflecting on Pride Month A Brief History of Pride in New Orleans Historical Scholarship The State of Scholarship on Queer New Orleans History The 1995 Panel on Lesbian and Gay History in Louisiana The New Orleans Dyke Bar History Project LaRC: A Treasure Trove of LGBT+ History October Is LGBT History Month Lagniappe The Historical Closet: Mid-Nineteenth-Century Gay New Orleans All about the Bears Here Cums Mr. Bingle FAB: Faubourg Marigny Arts and Books Miss Fly, Ms. Do, and the Double Play Interviews Race and Gay Spaces: Remembering the Safari Lounge--An Interview with Robert Fieseler Cruising Public Bathrooms: An Interview with Retired NOPD Officer Larry Williams Sr. Decadence Past: An Interview with 2010 SDGMs Julien Artressia and Toby Lefort Local Queer History Goes to the Lammys: An Interview with Deacon Maccubbin Ricky Everett Recalls the Night He Escaped the Up Stairs Lounge Fire Index.