Gay Carnival exists in the shadows, yet for the queer community, it is the height of gay expression with a dozen or so krewes, or social clubs, vying for the ephemeral glory of one supreme night amid all the festive madness. Two close friends, Razz and Joris, make a solemn vow to attend all the gay balls of the 1985 season, a near impossible task, for tickets are bestowed, not bought. Gay liberation is still in its infancy, but in the Crescent City dazzling discothèques and drag bars abound, as well as sleazy backrooms and preppy cocktail pubs, while Carnival explodes each year with its own brand of quenchless decadence. Across the river lurks the legendary French Quarter, but at the newly hatched Pelican Studios-Ī former plantation house and funeral parlor-a strange tale unfolds about growing up in the South and discovering a fantastical queer world in New Orleans during the early 1980s. Of excess and effervescence, sequestered away in Slaughterhouse Point. " A wicked romp through 1980s gay New Orleans! "Ī group of down-and-out artists and subterraneans live a carefree life
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