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The importance of citywide festivals like Mardi Gras and Fiesta for the LGBTQ communityFestivals like Mardi Gras and Fiesta have come to be annual events in which entire cities participate, and LGBTQ people are a visible part of these celebrations. In other words, the party is on, the party is queer, and everyone is invited. In Queer Carnival, Amy Stone takes us inside these colorful, eye-catching, and often raucous events, highlighting their importance to queer life in America's urban South and Southwest. Drawing on five years of research, and over a hundred days at LGBTQ events in cities such as San Antonio, Santa Fe, Baton Rouge, and Mobile, Stone gives readers a front-row seat to festivals, carnivals, and Mardi Gras celebrations, vividly bringing these queer cultural spaces and the people that create and participate in them to life. Stone shows how these events serve a larger fundamental purpose, helping LGBTQ people to cultivate a sense of belonging in cities that may be otherwise hostile. Queer Carnival provides an important new perspective on queer life in the South and Southwest, showing us the ways that LGBTQ communities not only survive, but thrive, even in the most unexpected places

Mardi Gras and the media : who's fooling whom? / Barry Jean Ancelet -- Buffalo Bill and the Mardi Gras Indians / Michael P. Smith -- Every man a king : world view, social tension, and carnival in New Orleans / Frank De Caro and Tom Ireland -- Mardi Gras chase / Glen Pitre -- The New Orleans king cake in southwest Louisiana / Marcia Gaudet -- Christmas bonfires in south Louisiana : tradition and innovation / Marcia Gaudet -- The Creole tradition / Michael Tisserand -- Hidden nation : the Houmas speak / Barbara Sillery -- Some accounts of witch riding / Patricia K. Rickels -- Charlene Richard : folk veneration among the Cajuns / Marcia Gaudet -- Ôte voir ta sacré soutane : anti-clerical humor in French Louisiana / Barry Jean Ancelet -- The social and symbolic uses of ethnic/regional foodways : Cajuns and crawfish in south Louisiana / C. Paige Gutierrez -- Is it Cajun, or is it Creole? / Marcia Gaudet.

Formulated through feminist geography, this thesis takes a visceral approach to unbound festival scholarship. It does so through examining return journeys to Australia's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex Pride event, the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (herein, Mardi Gras). Rather than prioritise the timeframe of events, as is often evident within festival scholarship, the thesis adopts a visceral approach that demands examining the embodied, performative and processual dimensions of return journeys, as they entangle with the social and cultural dimensions of Mardi Gras. Advancing methodological discussion around online storytelling, this thesis employs a multi-method approach, termed travel ethnographies. Travel ethnographies involve social media, alongside more conventional tools such as interviews, solicited diaries and observant participation. Three lines of inquiry are extended in this thesis, through three fieldwork assemblages, to advance arguments around the ways festivals spill into, and are affected by, the everyday. First, belonging and identity for the Queensland Dykes on Bikes (an all women motorcycle chapter) are shown to coalesce through the preparation for, and experiences of, mobile bodies-on-motorcycles; suggesting belonging and identity are bound up with bodily movements that are related to, yet wider than, social powers that frame Mardi Gras. Second, the affective politics of collective travel with Goulburn Valley Pride (a regional Victorian Queer Collective), on a bus to and from Mardi Gras, troubles oppositional distinctions between politics and tourism. Third, the commodification of queer Pride is explored in, through and beyond the event of Mardi Gras by investigating the embodied encounters of a solo traveller from New Zealand; here, attention is granted to the ways meanings and experiences taking place during Mardi Gras are always bound up with broader politics and social worlds. Taken together, the three lines of inquiry presented in this thesis demonstrate the potentials of return journeys to render new understanding around the multiple and shifting meanings and roles of Pride events, and festivals more broadly, that extend beyond bounded narratives. To conclude, attention turns to Antipodean feminist geographic futures that speak to broader contemporary agendas in the discipline of geography. In so doing, specific attention is granted to possible avenues in which feminist geography may productively recognise and promote otherness, identify and decentre power, and engage beyond the boundaries of the sub-discipline.

The rural Mardi Gras run is a rite of reversal in which a rowdy band of costumed merrymakers visits homes and businesses to collect" charity " for a communal supper. Unorthodox conduct, misbehavior, and violence in this context are often directly linked to intoxication. However, such drunkenness is a form of ritualized inebriation that develops through drinking, the sense of freedom afforded by participants' anonymity, and their assuming expected roles for the deep play associated with Mardi Gras. Violence and misconduct are largely attributable to overzealous play, loss of temper, personal conflicts, and spectators' negative reactions to Mardi Gras antics. Although seemingly chaotic, Mardi Gras follows an idealized script and it has mechanisms of control which mediate between acceptable drinking behavior and play and actual intoxication and misbehavior. There is, however, a negotiable gray area within this spectrum that reflects variation within the Cajun cultural ethos especially pertaining to drinking behavior.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword, by Herman Fuselier -- Acknowledgements -- Author's Notes: Gumbo and the Mardi Gras -- Cajuns Intro -- Louisiana Social Events-Keeping Company -- Bal de Maison -- Bereavement Customs -- Boucheries -- Christmas -- Courir de Mardi Gras -- Weddings -- City versus Country Mardi Gras Beginnings -- Jayhawkers -- Mardi Gras of New Orleans -- Courir de Mardi Gras in Cajun Country-Let the Games Begin -- Krewe Chic-a-la-Pie in Kaplan -- Adornment -- Lady in Waiting-Basile -- Flip a Coin-Church Point -- Family-Friendly Mardi Gras -- Masks and Costumes -- Dancing on a Horse -- Lafourche Parish-Different Kind of Chase -- Turkey Run -- Mardi Gras Song -- Fiddler on the Run -- Whimsical Mardi Gras-The Essentials -- Jambalaya, Crawfish Pie, Filé Gumbo -- A Cajun Mardi Gras Tale -- Good Eats and Side Trips -- Recipes -- Bibliography -- About the Author.

What does it mean that Pride was released in 2014, 30 years after the formation of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) and the same year in which a Conservative government made same-sex marriage a legal reality in the UK? In this article, I explore the narrativising of LGSM's story, in order to consider how nostalgia operates in the film. Chiefly, I consider the choices that the screenwriter, Stephen Beresford, made in reconstructing the story of LGSM, and examine what these choices reveal about the changes that have taken place in the political landscape of gay Britain over the last 30 years. Through an analysis of these choices, I argue that Pride offers contemporary audiences a story of radical LGBTQ activism that they can enjoy and celebrate, while side-stepping uncomfortable questions regarding identity politics, single issue politics and the demise of collectivist politics.