# Event Details

- **Event Name**: LGBTQ History Tour of New Orleans
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 02 Sep, 2026 at 04:00 pm – Mon, 07 Sep, 2026 at 04:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: An ~2 hour walking tour, exploring the history of the LGBT community in New Orleans - including the origins of Southern Decadence!About this EventThe French Quarter has been a haven for outsiders longer than most American cities have had a gay bar. Long before the politics caught up, New Orleans was already offering something rarer: actual space to exist.This two-hour walking tour moves through the heart of the French Quarter, tracing the full arc of queer life in one of America's most complex and least-documented LGBTQ histories. You'll learn about hidden social clubs that operated in plain sight, underground bars that survived by knowing who to trust, and the artists, activists, and everyday people who carved out lives here on their own terms.The stories range from quietly triumphant to genuinely devastating. The 1973 UpStairs Lounge fire killed 32 people and was largely ignored by the press, the city, and the church. Many Americans have never heard of it. It happened four blocks from where tourists eat beignets, and most people who walk past that corner today have no idea anything happened there.The weight doesn't disappear…it just goes unacknowledged. The silence is part of the history too: the way a community grieved without the city grieving with them, the way a street can hold that kind of loss and show no sign of it. These stories have survived because people kept them alive when no one else would. And this tour continues that legacy, telling them with the specificity and care they've earned.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-orleans/lgbtq-history-tour-of-new-orleans/100001995469467895
- **Event Categories**: fitness
- **Slot details of has slots**: 
- **Interested Audience**: 
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- **Event Highlights**: 
  - Age Limit: all_ages
  - Duration: 2 hours
  - Location: French Quarter
  - Languages: English

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket Price Range**: min: 59.54, max: 59.54, currency: USD

## Event venue details

- **city**: New Orleans
- **state**: LA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: French Quarter
- **lat**: 29.9570584
- **long**: -90.0700845
- **full address**: French Quarter, French Quarter, New Orleans, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is LGBTQ History Tour of New Orleans being held?
  - **A:** LGBTQ History Tour of New Orleans takes place on Wed, 02 Sep, 2026 at 04:00 pm to Mon, 07 Sep, 2026 at 04:00 pm at French Quarter, French Quarter, New Orleans, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing LGBTQ History Tour of New Orleans?
  - **A:** LGBTQ History Tour of New Orleans is organized by New Orleans Secrets.

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