BREAKING NEWS (New Orleans, LA) UPDATE: State of emergency declared in Louisiana as Gustav nears.  The hurricane has not made its way through the Cuba area but a State of emergency has been declared.  I would change plans now for Labor Day weekend. Could Hurricane Gustav Cancel Southern Decadence? Looks like Chi Chi LaRue may be moving her wigs to another city as the winds blow the direction of New Orleans disrupting the big gay Labor Day festivities. It was exactly this time three years ago that Southern Decadence was going through the same worries with a hurricane headed its way. They ...

I am going to New Orleans this weekend for Southern Decadence. I hope Hurricane Gustav isn't but the latest track looks like it will hit New Orleans on Monday or Tuesday. I may be able to fly in, but not fly out. Not sure what to do.We just got through Tropical Storm Fay, which I think is still churning up trouble somewhere and now Gustav.Next summer I am surely gonna go up to the mountains somewhere to get away.I noticed so many of my neighbors are away in the summer. One is in Maine, another couple ...

Hurricane Katrina could not sink New Orleans three years ago. The Big Easy is slowly rebounding once more. But on the horizon is a new hurricane called Gustav, which threatens to drown New Orleans after all the sinning and debauchery that is Southern Decadence.Is it a coincidence? An act from God? Or something else?! Please vote in my poll: ...

I always thought that the happiest people on Earth have boyfriends. That is so wrong as CB in a sarong. I am convinced mine is trying to drive me crazy just so we can break up and he'll be single for Southern Decadence.First let me confess my little obsession so you can understand the grievous nature of what the BF did wrong. I operate happiest in comfort zones. I spend so much of my time planning so unforeseeable things don't upset me in the future.It is not unlike me to pack two extra pairs of socks, an extra ...