Gays Defiant In Katrina's Wake

[William769]

New Orleans, Louisiana) It was a scene like something from a Fellini movie. Amid the death, the destruction, and suffering in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina a small parade behind a tattered rainbow flag made its way up Bourbon Street on Sunday.
The marchers said they were celebrating Southern Decadence. The group - about two dozen people - all said they lived in the largely gay French Quarter. Defiant, they said they were not about to flee the community despite orders from the city to do so.

The French Quarter, the oldest neighborhood in New Orleans, sits on higher ground than most of the city and escaped the worst of the flooding. Still water permeated the first floors of most buildings. The winds that accompanied Katrina ripped signs from buildings. Windows are shattered and broken, and many buildings had their roofs blown off.

Most of the marchers were among the poorest citizens of the neighborhood - the barbacks, clerks, part-time waiters and the unemployed who lived above the shops and clubs in the Quarter. The rainbow flag was taken from the front of one bar. It was ragged and worn but it had survived the hurricane, just as the plucky marchers had.

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/09/090505nola.htm

[bushisanidiot]

1. I fear for them.. there are some cocky white men with guns around..

there'd be no witnesses.

may God protect them from their "protectors"

[ToolTex]

2. Thanks for posting this William.

It is the first time I've smiled for days. Leave it to "family" to to bring some perspective and joy into the right-now. I hope they have an adequate drinking-water stash, (and of course, skin care products). New Orleans will survive if the Feds can be kept from killing her.