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Bohemia's Last Frontier
Wilkie, Curtis | October 3, 2005 issue

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Comments on New Orleans' historical tendency towards tolerance. Observation that gay people found refuge in New Orleans and racially mixed couples were accepted even in a time when laws existed banning miscegenation; Existence of a poor class in New Orleans, which is why the blues resonated so clearly there; View that Hurricane Katrina has exposed the racial inequalities in New Orleans.

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NEW Orleans (La.) -- History; TOLERATION; RACIALLY mixed people; GAYS; POVERTY; HURRICANE Katrina, 2005; EQUALITY; NEW Orleans (La.)
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