Archive for August, 2008
August 29, 2008 at 7:23 am
· Filed under New Orleans ·Tagged gay, gay travel, GLBT, glbt travel, Gustav, Hurricane, New Orleans, NOLA, Southern Decadence
WickedGayBlog reports that the folks in NOLA are getting upset with all the ‘hysteric’ reporting from other gay blogs about Hurricane Gustav. Its easy to understand why, Decadence is a major boost during the city’s slow season.
I can’t blame them for showing caution. I was scheduled to leave for the festival on Thursday but had to cancel due to family issues. I am not sure if we would have canceled anyway, but I bet we would have left early. If your not there already you probably shouldn’t go.
This really sucks for NOLA’s gay bars and hotels.
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August 28, 2008 at 6:01 pm
· Filed under Las Vegas ·Tagged gay, gay travel, glbt travel, Las Vegas, travel
Legendary topless reviews, toll-free call girls, and old school machismo may lead one to believe that Sin City specializes only in vice of the hetero variety. Well, I have visited the new Las Vegas and there is plenty of sin [gay, straight, or otherwise] to go around. In fact the city has made a concentrated effort to attract the fun-seeking queer traveler. Restaurants, casinos, clubs, and shows are bending over backwards to position themselves in the gay market.
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August 28, 2008 at 5:56 pm
· Filed under nashville ·Tagged gay, gay travel, glbt travel, nashville, passport, travel
Nashville continues to attract attention as a destination for GLBT tourists. The August issue of Passport Magazine, a leading voice on gay travel, features Nashville as a prime spot for a vacation.
The article was written by Rich Rubin who visited Nashville earlier this year after being invited by the Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau. Some people might find Nashville an unusual choice, but covering Music City was an easy decision for Passport editor-in-chief Andrew Mersmann. Mersmann stated that he was ‘pleasantly surprised’ by the depth of Nashville’s gay scene and business community.
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August 28, 2008 at 5:52 pm
· Filed under Uncategorized
It looks like Gustav might ran on Southern Decadence this year. Below is my recap of last year’s festival.
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August 28, 2008 at 5:49 pm
· Filed under New Orleans ·Tagged decadence, french quarter, gay, New Orleans, party
Enough with the rumors! New Orleans is open, safe and ready for the gays. I have just returned from what some are calling the most spectacular Southern Decadence yet. Various sources have claimed that over 100,000 revelers descended upon the Crescent City for this annual event.
Southern Decadence is a four-day long party in the New Orleans French Quarter. The celebration attracts gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender [GLBT] people and their friends from all over the world; I met a few Canadians and a really cute French boy. Southern Decadence is known for its loud displays of gay culture that the conservatives in our community wish would stay underground. It is a defiant celebration of spirit, sexuality, and who-gives-damn-what-you-think. Southern Decadence started about ten years before I made my first appearance on this earth. This iconic event began as a small, impromptu gathering of friends that evolved into an annual celebration of being different. There is no way that the handful of people who participated in the first Southern Decadence in 1972 could have conceived the scope the event would take on.
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