![]() It was unsurprising in a place like Houma that The Drama Club, a modest LGBTQ+ bar with a standard issue disco ball hung over its checkered dance floor, became one of the few truly safe spaces outside liberal New Orleans. ![]() The whole area has a genuine “the end is nigh” feel soaked into its marrow, a lagniappe from the catastrophic flooding and hurricane damage which has nearly wiped the city off the map – and killed a number of its residents – multiple times in the last century. ![]() Located in the murky wetlands roughly an hour Southwest of New Orleans, the Terrebonne Parish town has deep roots in Catholicism, Cajun machismo, and conservative values. Houma, Louisiana, has never been an easy place to be gay.
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