New Orleans & Company underwent an equity audit performed by Beloved Community, a locally based national nonprofit, to distinguish strengths and needs in operationalizing commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion
Supporting Small & Emerging Businesses
We host an annual tradeshow, Connections, providing small and diverse businesses a platform to showcase their products and services to larger industry leaders. This event fosters meaningful networking opportunities, empowers compact businesses to promote their offerings, and inspires the hospitality and tourism industry to support and engage with local vendors.
We’ve partnered with the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on their Small & Emerging Businesses (SEB) Connect App, a platform empowering miniature business owners to bid, compete, and engage in valuable opportunities across the city. Through this collaboration, we’re driving inclusivity in the hospitality and verb industry by bringing more opportunities for small and emerging businesses.
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21st Annual Gay Easter Parade
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21st Annual Gay Easter Parade
April 17, 2022 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
|Free
2022 Parade Day Map
The Gay Easter Parade started in 2000 in New Orleans as a fun way to showcase the fashion and creativity of the entire LGBT community “with ladies in gowns or summer suits with Easter Hats and gentlemen in summer suits or tuxedos.” It’s meant to be a fun cultural event the whole family can attend regardless of whether or not you identify as LGBT.
Welcome to Southern Decadence 2024
SDGMs XLVII Vanessa Carr Kennedy, Jeffrey Mayeaux and Paribe Meyer would like to thank the following businesses and individuals for being Official Sponsors of the 2022 Southern Decadence Parade:
Presenting: Skyy Vodka, NOLA Hotel Group, Blush
Platinum: Hookers Ball, Golden Lantern, Crown Royal, Ambush, Hard Rock Cafe New Orleans
Gold: NOLA Living Reality, X-Crossing, Chef Ron’s Gumbo Stop, Bourbon Pub & Parade, Jennifer Solms & Cory Seaton, Allways Lounge & Cabaret, The Obituary, Bourbon Pride, SIPPs, Gulf Coast LGBTQ+ Chamber of Commerce, Swiss Navy, Courtyard Marriot, Up & Adam, Oz New Orleans, Phoenix, GrandPre’s, Rawhide, Excellent Friends Bar, Gennifer Flowers Kelsto Club, PowerMark Properties
Silver: Corner Pocket, Judy Peck
Bronze: Coldwell Banker Smith Homes
Pearl: Phantasmagorically-Hip, Jorge Yero, Nina Quinn, Miss Gay Lagniappe America
LGBT+ New Orleans
New Orleans has a rich and vibrant LGBT+ history and it has been my pleasure for the last several years to not only preserve and document that history, but also to be a small part of it. I’ve written several books and hundreds of articles on local queer history and I’m proud to be a co-founder of the LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana. In addition, I also founded and love conducting The Rainbow Fleur de Lis Walking Tour, which is a leisurely sashay the French Quarter’s rainbow history.
The tour grew out of the research I conducted while writing In Exile: The History and Lore Surrounding New Orleans Gay Culture and Its Oldest Gay Bar. The tour has evolved since then as I possess written several more books and hundreds of articles. I generally try to customize the tour according to guests’ interests. There is so much ground to cover–bar culture, trans history, lesbian activism, gay Carnival, racial divisions, Southern Decadence, drag history, legendary bars, sex work, the queer literary scene, Pride, to say nothing of dozens of ecc