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My Gay New Orleans: 28 Personal Reminisces on LGBT+ Life in New Orleans
My Gay New Orleans 28 Personal Reminisces on LGBT Life in New Orleans Author:Frank Perez, Jeffrey Palmquist So what is gay New Orleans and what does it look like? These are the questions this book seeks to answer. In My Gay New Orleans we asked locals and visitors alike to answer the question: — What does ?gay New Orleans? mean to you? — The essays collected here are, in effect, love letters to a city. Indeed, the common thread that runs through all o... more »f these reminisces is a deep and abiding sense of place and an even deeper connection to that place. Repeatedly, the emerging theme throughout the collection is that it?s easy to be gay in New Orleans. Contributor Jack Sullivan perhaps sums it best when he writes, ?My Gay New Orleans is not my greater experience of this city or its people. New Orleans is a collection of many overlapping cultures and identities, of which gay culture is but one important element. It is an element, however, that has positioned me to love myself as well as this city.?« less