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You won’t want to miss the show as theLords put on a spectacular lineup ofcostumes along with other musical anddance numbers. Doors open at 7pmand the tableau will start at 8pm. Bothbalcony seating (general admission)for $20 and limited table seating areavailable for purchase by visiting http://www.eventbrite.com/e/bal-masque-xxxii-tickets-15143668119.

Night of the Black Mask: Join theLords as they celebrate another MardiGras season on Friday night, February13 at the Phoenix Bar on Elysian FieldsAve. The night starts at 9pm with a $5beer bust on the patio until midnight.Fetish wear, costumes and masks areencouraged.

5th Friday Beer Bust: The Lordsof Leather will host a $5 beer bust onFriday, January 30 at the Phoenix. Allyou can swallow from 9pm until mid-night on the patio.

Carnival, Fetish MasksAvailable @ COK

COK, inside the Phoenix at 941Elysian Fields, has a large selection ofcarnival and fetish mask on sale throughMardi Gras weekend. The store alsofeatures large selection of fetish wareand novelties, Andrew Christian, tro-phy boy, tweak dance ware, dvds andother indulgent items.

Don’t forget to have a cocktail inthe Phoenix with the colorful cast oflocal characters on your shopping en-deavor.

Hidden Treasures:Carnival Edition

For all you hardcore Carnival fa-natics, join the Friends of the Cabildoand the Louisiana State Museum fortwo nights only as they open the im-pressive Carnival Collection for an ex-clusive behind-the-scenes viewing ofhistoric costumes and other rarely seenartifacts. Wayne Phillips, Curator ofCostumes and Textiles for the Louisi-ana State Museum, will guide youthrough an in-depth, first-hand look atCarnivals of years past through a tourof the storage rooms of the State Mu-seum, usually off limits to the generalpublic.

Hidden Treasures of the Louisi-ana State Museum: Carnival Editiontakes place Tuesday and Thursday,January 27 and 29. Tours are at 6pmand 7pm at the Louisiana StateMuseum’s Collection Storage Facility,located at 1000 Chartres Street in theFrench Quarter. Cost is $30 per person

the "official" dish ...from 10 or $20per person for Friends of theCabildo members. Reservations arerequired, and space is extremely lim-ited. No tickets are sold at the door.

For more details and to reserveyour space, please contact KaydeeNenninger at the FOC office at504.523.3939.

Friends of the Cabildo is a privatenon-profit volunteer group that pro-vides financial and volunteer supportfor the Louisiana State Museum, itsprojects and its property. Since incor-porating in 1956, the Friends of theCabildo has grown into a large state-wide membership organization, a dy-namic and motivating force in broaden-ing and supporting the aims of theLouisiana State Museum.

Registration Now Openfor Delgado CommunityCollege Class on NewOrleans Queer History

Delgado Community College hasannounced it will offer a course begin-ning on February 25 called LGBT+History of New Orleans. The courseruns for eight weeks and concludes onApril 8. Registration for the course isnow open.

Rachelle Matherne, Assistant Di-rector of Continuing Education at DCCsays, “New Orleans is important to theLGBQT history of the U.S., as much asLGBQT residents and tourists are im-portant to the fabric of New Orleans,both past and current. There is a void inlocal educational opportunities relatedto these topics, and this class definitelyfills that void. I’m very excited to beoffering this class through DelgadoCommunity College.”

The course is being developed andwill be taught by local historian FrankPerez.

Perez has written two books on thehistory of New Orleans, In Exile: TheHistory and Lore Surrounding NewOrleans Gay Culture and Its OldestGay Bar (with Jeff Palmquist) andTreasures of the Vieux Carre: TenSelf-Guided Walking Tours of theFrench Quarter. He also has a regularcolumn in Ambush Magazine entitled“Moments in Gay New Orleans His-tory” and currently teaches the Ad-vanced Tour-Guiding course at DCC. Alicensed tour guide, Perez has alsodeveloped a walking tour of gay NewOrleans history.

The LGBT+ History of New Or-leans course is non-credit class andenrollment is open to the general pub-lic. According to Perez, there will be noassignments and no grades, “just a lotof fascinating history.” The format ofthe class will be lecture and discussion.

The course will consist of seventwo-hour sessions on Wednesday eve-nings at the DCC City Park Campus.The cost of the course is $160. Formore information, please visit https://registration.xenegrade.com/delgado/

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Bianca Del Rio toPerform @ 2015Orpheuscapade

Hometown “girl” and winner ofRuPaul’s Drag Race, Bianca Del Rio,aka Roy Haylock, will be adding hersharp wit and glamorous good looks tothis year’s Orpheuscapade festivities.Del Rio will be on hand to give colorcommentary as the floats make theirway into the convention center.

Headlining Orpheuscapade will becountry superstar Dierks Bentley. Alsoon the bill are American Idol finalistCasey James, country singer/songwriter Elizabeth Lyons, No Limits,the nationally acclaimed 11-piece showband, and Wes Raymond & the SoulFactory.

The event will also feature theNew Orleans premiere of a dazzling hi-tech experience that promises to bringaudience engagement to an entirelynew level. “We are very excited to notonly bring another first to Mardi Grasbut to do it in the theatrical fashion forwhich the Krewe of Orpheus is known,”offered Sonny Borey, Krewe Captain.

The Orpheuscapade will be heldat the Morial Convention Center on theeve of Mardi Gras, Monday, February16, 2015. For information and tickets:504-822-7211 orwww.kreweoforpheus.com. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM-AdP60XD0.

Founded in 1993 by Captain SonnyBorey and Harry Connick, Jr., the krewederives its name from the mortalOrpheus, son of the god Apollo and themuse Calliope. One of the city’s “superkrewes”, Orpheus is consciously non-exclusive and New Orleans most di-verse krewe boasting 1,200 membersfrom all walks of life. The parade rollson Lundi Gras and culminates with theOrpheuscapade, a black-tie party thatdraws thousands of revelers to wel-come the floats through the conventioncenter as they are entertained by world-renowned musicians. Website:www.KreweofOrpheus.com.

GALECA NamesBoyhood Film of theYear, DuVernay Directorof the Year for Selma,Moore and RedmayneTake Actor Prizes

HOLLYWOOD, CA - In perhapsthe latest boost to stars and studiosseeking the ultimate golden statuettethis awards season, the Gay and Les-bian Entertainment Critics Association(GALECA), comprised of over 110movie and TV critics nationwide, offi-cially announced their choices for2014’s finest in film and television. Thewins come across 25 categories, frommainstream to LGBTQ-centric, from

Rising Star to Music Video of the Year.At the top of the list: GALECA

deemed Boyhood, director RichardLinklater’s visceral, literally decades-spanning look at familial love, worthy ofits Dorian Award for Film of the Year.

Julianne Moore in Still Alice wasthe group’s pick for Film Performanceof the Year — Actress, while EddieRedmayne (The Theory of Every-thing) took Film Performance of theYear — Actor. Ava DuVernay, whohelmed the Civil Rights-era dramaSelma, was named Film Director of theYear.

Pride, the true-life story of how agroup of gays and lesbians champi-oned striking blue-collar miners inThatcher-era England, earned LGBTQFilm of the Year as well as Unsung Filmof the Year honors. The Case Against8 was chosen as Documentary of theYear over titles as varied asCitizenFour and Regarding SusanSontag. GALECA’s Visually StrikingFilm of the Year: Wes Anderson’s gor-geous period romp The GrandBudapest Hotel. Into the Woods tookCampy Film of the Year semi-honors.

One of the few critics associationsthat awards the year’s best in both filmand TV, GALECA chose Amazon’sfreshman breakout Transparent asTV Comedy of the Year. The life-in-spired tale, staarring Jeffrey Tamboras a biological man who comes out tohis family as a woman, took four awardsin all, including wins for Tambor andcreator/director Jill Soloway. In addi-tion, Soloway was also dubbedGALECA’s latest Wilde Artist of theYear, following in the bold footsteps oflast year’s winner, James Franco.

In other categories, Lisa Kudrowtook TV Performance of the Year —Actress for her return as fame-cravingactress Valerie Cherish in The Come-back.

John Oliver (Wilde Wit of the Year),Neil Patrick Harris (for a certain, daz-zling Tony Awards rock performance),pop star Sia (her stunningly choreo-graphed filmic interpretation of “Chan-delier” was Video of the Year) and TVupstart Gina Rodriguez (“We’re WildeAbout You!” Rising Star) were othertriumphant names in the mix.

As previously announced, the groupchose George Takei as the recipient ofits special Timeless star tribute, givento “an actor or performer whose exem-plary career is marked by character,wisdom and wit.”

The complete list of Dorian Awardwinners, is available atwww.galeca.com. GALECA’s annual,private Winners Toast will be held Sun-day, March 1, in Hollywood.

For more information,visit www.galeca.com.

Also, follow GALECA on Twitterat www.twitter.com/DorianAwards andbecome a fan at www.facebook.com/dorianawards.

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