The Sons Of Tennessee Williams

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My name is Tim Wolff and I am approaching the release of my movie The Sons Of Tennessee Williams. It tells the story of the first public gay culture in the US, a flamboyant non-political but organized group of men that broke through the barriers of early 1960s anti-gay laws. Please take a moment to be introduced to this unknown and very inspirational 50 year old culture that thrives to this day.

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The Sons Of Tennessee Williams is the story of the gay men of New Orleans who created a vast and fantastic culture of “drag balls” starting in the late 1950s. These men worked with the traditions of Mardi Gras to bring gay culture into public settings in the early 1960s. By 1969, there were four gay Mardi Gras krewes, legally chartered by the state of Louisiana, throwing yearly extravaganzas at civic venues around the city. “Society matrons begged for ball tickets from their hairdressers”.

They succeeded in bringing down the “Jim Crow” laws that targeted gay people for offenses such as public assembly, same-sex dancing and cross-dressing. They staged a flamboyant costumed revolution without politics and won freedoms during a time, as now, when laws and people fought against them.

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