Gay community prepares for post-Katrina 'Decadence'

Associated Press ^ | August 31, 2006

[NCjim]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The gay community plans to paint the town pink and green this weekend, just days after the ceremonies that marked the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

Jonathan Bray, an organizer of Southern Decadence, and others see the festival — a weekend-long gay and lesbian tradition known for its parties and parade featuring flamboyant costumes — as a step in the rebirth of a city deluged by floodwaters one year ago.

"This time last year, we didn't know whether the city was going to survive; nobody knew," Bray said. "It's been a tremendous uphill battle to exist here in New Orleans, and this is a significant achievement, to have Southern Decadence again."

Tens of thousands of people are expected for the event, whose opening activities were set for Thursday night. Last year, Southern Decadence attracted a small number of die-hards in spite of the flooding in much of New Orleans, Bray said. The French Quarter, the anchor of the festival, was untouched by floodwaters.

[kinoxi]

Where's a hurricane when you need one?

[jdm]

*Hurricane Katrina*

Gays, banjo players and people whose favorite color is purple hit hardest.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

call rove..everyone knows he controls the weather machine..:)

[upchuck]

Some people just never learn.

Spend some time listening to the Man Upstairs.

[NCjim]

[concerned about politics]

The Christian organizations are down there doing most of the clean up work. They should just leave.
The town apparently learned nothing from this storm.

[tet68]

This just in.....Gomorrah to be rebuilt.
"It's been a struggle but we are looking forward
to our first orgy."

[SoldierDad]

Makes one wonder just why New Orleans was "targeted", doesn't it?

So this is the great new New Orleans that their Mayor promised.

[tet68]

He said it would be chocolate....

[SoldierDad]

Makes one wonder just why New Orleans was "targeted", doesn't it?

So this is the great new New Orleans that their Mayor promised.

[stm]

"as a step in the rebirth of a city deluged by floodwaters one year ago"

In the image of Sodom and Gemorrah? Their name says it all.

[SoldierDad]

Makes one wonder just why New Orleans was "targeted", doesn't it?

So this is the great new New Orleans that their Mayor promised.

[SoldierDad]

I appear to be regenerating posts for some reason.

[concerned about politics]

So this is the great new New Orleans that their Mayor promised.

NOW we know what he meant when he said he wanted a chocolate city. He meant poop passers. It wasn't a race remark after all.

[SteveMcKing]

Gay community prepares for post-Katrina 'Decadence'

Or as I call it, post-Katrina 'gays-hand-Republicans-more-votes-by-the-millions'. You can't pay for a better commercial than these images.

[rocksblues]

LOL!

[flynmudd]

For shame!

[Spirited]

God deliver us from this scourge.