New Orleans: A Man’s, Man’s, Man’s World

New Orleans is slowly getting its act together. And with most of the basics back in place, the city’s hankering for visitors of every stripe, particularly the gay boys, says the Southern Voice, Atlanta’s gay newspaper. And one of the big reasons to head to the Big Easy for a weekend jaunt is the overabundance of manly men on the ground in what remains of the city. One horny old codger, formerly the city’s health department director, estimates that the city’s 60 to 70 percent male these days, thanks to FEMA, the military presence and the hasty exodus of the city’s lesbian and child-rearing community (gym teachers and their students, we imagine). Dr. Brobson Lutz says the heady, male-heavy atmosphere “is very unusual for a U.S. city, and probably more characteristic of an old frontier operation like in the Wild West or in Alaska.” G. Gordon Liddy would call it a target-rich environment: we’ll just add that the city’s bathhouse is back on its feet, or off them, and the Corner Pocket is as delightfully skeevy as ever. Laissez le bon temps rouler!

Life goes on for gay New Orleans [SoVo.com]