Larry Gude said:
Yeah, they were there last year, bolstered by a contingient of South Beach refugees escaping hurricane What's-Her-Name. Mostly-naked gay men as far as the eye could see down Bourbon St. My wife was being very territorial, bless her heart.
The hillarious thing is that the Southern Baptist Convention was also in town. N.O.'s finest set up barricades around the party so that the gay queers and the Bible queers could scream at each other in a civilized, non-violent manner. Methinks no one was converted to either side that night.
We hid in Molly's and got wrecked with the locals. We did get some lovely pictures of the parade two days later, including a post-op tranny wearing a stringless bikini and pasties.
Hell of a town...