Bacchus gay bar2/7/2024 Miss Dixie & her sister Irma opened the bar in 1939 on St Charles Ave, and moved it to Bourbon in 1949. ![]() A generation before the Stonewall Riots, it served as a safe space for the gay community in New Orleans.” They feature people partying around Dixie’s Bar of Music on Bourbon Street - a bar that WWOZ describes as “among the most important gay bars in American History. Pulled from our personal collection of vintage slides found across New Orleans, these photos come from the early 1960’s, a decade before Southern Decadence began. ![]() ![]() A scene from Dixie's Bar of Music, 1962. Never before seen photograph of New Orleans gay history, taken from vintage slides found in New Orleans.
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