These are obviously a little rough around the edges, though I wouldn't exactly call them dangerous. I recommend it, though.) I'd hesitate to call them neighborhood bars, per se, because they're in the French Quarter and therefore susceptible to all sorts of random skeevy people coming through.Īlso around the bottom of the Quarter is Rawhide and The Roundup. (Don't confuse Lafitte's Landing with Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop, which is right around there and isn't specifically a gay bar.
Within a few blocks of there is Good Friends and Lafitte's Landing, which are a lot less crazy and not nearly as loud.
These are really clubby.they're pretty much like any other Bourbon St club, except the drunken 20-year-olds dancing on the bars are skinny dudes instead of sorority girls. Ann and Bourbon is Parade (which most people still call The Pub) and Oz. The bottom end of the French Quarter-that is, the one closest to the Marigny-has a pretty high density of gay clubs and bars. I'm not gay, but I do drive a cab in New Orleans, so I might have a little insight here.
