Southern Decadence will be held Friday, August 29-September 1. Southern Decadence is a street festival / party that began back in 1972 as a going-away party. The event started out very small and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Southern Decadence in New Orleans Southern Decadence is New Orleans’s multi-day queer extravaganza of partying, debauchery, joy, ...

Southern Decadence revelers gather outside of Oz, a dance club in the 800 block of Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Sept. 4, 2022. Hundreds of thousands of people descended upon the city for the annual ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The 52nd annual Southern Decadence event took over New Orleans, drawing tens of thousands of visitors to the city’s French Quarter and surrounding neighborhoods. Originally a ...

With no storm warnings in sight, New Orleans tourism officials expect most downtown hotel rooms will be near-capacity through the Labor Day weekend. The holiday weekend coincides with two local events ...

For the first two decades of its existence, Southern Decadence was a party solely for New Orleans residents. The founders were a group of hippies who lived together in a Treme commune of sorts, ...

What started out 43 years ago as a going-away bash thrown by six gay men has grown into New Orleans’ third-largest festival after Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest, said Chuck Robinson, owner of Napoleon’s ...

From August 29 through September 2, Southern Decadence will host its 49 annual celebration here in New Orleans. Though the star of the show will be the 45th Annual Walking Parade on Sunday, September ...

SIDDIQUI, WDSU NEWS. ANUM THANK YOU. AND YOU KNOW, SINCE IT IS LABOR DAY WEEKEND, THAT MEANS THE FRENCH QUARTER WILL BE FULL OF PEOPLE CELEBRATING SOUTHERN DECADENCE, THE LGBTQ FRIENDLY EVENT KICKS ...

In 1972, Matassa's Market in the French Quarter had a small bar in back — "just boards on barrels, where we used to go because cocktails were 75 cents each," says Frederick Wright, who was at the ...