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The Sound and Fury over “Sound and Light”
A mayor’s three-year push to establish a garish tourist spectacle in the city’s historic heart united thousands of French Quarter lovers across New Orleans in the ‘70s, who fought back with protests, petitions and legal action.
– by Bethany Ewald Bultman
Bill Rushton: Journalist and Activist, Part Two
In the ‘70s, a young journalist writing for a small French Quarter newspaper broke one of the city’s most startling stories and helped organize one of the first gay protests in the South. This story includes a series of never-before-published images of the 1977 rally by Owen Murphy.
– by Frank Perez
Bill Rushton: Journalist and Activist, Part One
In the ‘70s, a young journalist writing for a small New Orleans newspaper in the French Quarter broke some of the city’s most important stories.
– by Frank Perez