Description: Essays that provide a crucial overview of LGBTQ+ history in New Orleans
Brief description: Frank Perez is cofounder and current executive director of the LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana. He is an instructor in the Office of Professional and Continuing Studies at Loyola University New Orleans, owner of Crescent City Tour Booking Agency, and columnist for Ambush Magazine and French Quarter Journal. He is author of Treasures of the Vieux Carré: Ten Self-Guided Walking Tours of the French Quarter and Political Animal: The Life and Times of Stewart Butler, the latter published by University Press of Mississippi; and coeditor of Southern Decadence in New Orleans, My Gay New Orleans: 28 Personal Reminiscences on LGBT+ Life in New Orleans, and In Exile: The History and Lore Surrounding New Orleans Gay Culture and Its Oldest Gay Bar.
Review Quotes: Every city has LGBTQ history. But not every city has that history documented. New Orleans not only has a long and rich queer history but is also fortunate enough to have strong queer historians. Frank Perez is one of the best.--Johnny Townsend, author of the first book on the Up Stairs Lounge fire, Inferno in the French Quarter, Racism by Proxy, Brace for Impact, and 10 Things to Do Before the Apocalypse