Other fundraisers for the program include Art Against AIDS, Bow Tie Bash, Dining Out for Life, and more. The program helps its clients stay as healthy as possible by providing meals on Tuesdays and Thursdays every week. The Gay Easter Parade serves as a fundraiser for Food for Friends, a program of NO/AIDS Task Force that supplies well-balanced, nutritious meals and groceries to those living with HIV and AIDS in the Greater New Orleans area. The winners of the contest are voted by the public. Leather boys in frilly bonnets aren’t even the most outlandish thing you may see here. It is open for everyone to participate, and some of the entries can get pretty extravagant. The parade is followed by an annual Easter Bonnet Contest held at Good Friends Bar located a the corner of St. The procession leisurely makes its way through the Vieux Carré (which is another name of the New Orleans French Quarter), passing local gay bars and gay-owned restaurants and retail stores. Some local bars and venues will feature drag shows, DJs, contests, and music. Participants will parade French Quarter streets in fantastic costumes and high fashion clothes. The Gay Easter Parade features revelers dressed in showy versions of their Easter Sunday finest (summers suits, tuxes and dresses), throwing beads and other trinkets into the crowd while riding lavishly decorated floats and horse-drawn carriages. One of New Orleans’s premier LGBTQ+ events, Southern Decadence is a celebration of LGBTQ+ culture in the city that will be taking place from August 29-September 2, 2019. Although a lot of people associate gay parades with drag queens and half-naked men in leather, the Gay Easter Parade is actually a rather family-friendly event, nowhere near was extravagant as, for example, a Mardi Gras parade.
The Gay Easter Parade is the final parade held in French Quarter on Easter Sunday, starting at 4:30 p.m. Well the two biggest gay bars in the French Quarter are The Pub and Oz which are across the street from each other and at the end of Bourbon. The French Quarter is New Orleans' pulsing nightlife heart, with a zone dubbed the 'Fruit Loop' entailing plenty of 24/7 LGBTQ bars and clubs for a boozy drink-always-in-hand crawl (the city's open container law specifies that alcoholic beverages can be enjoyed outdoors in a plastic cup, and local favorites include. They include Southern Decadence (a six-day event culminating on the Sunday before Labor Day), Halloween New Orleans, the New Orleans Pride and the Gay Easter Parade. Every year, the gay and lesbian community of New Orleans organizes several large events that attract LGBT revelers from across the United States and abroad to the French Quarter.