Ma Rainey, the “Mother of the Blues,” who also helped shape what would become rock ’n’ roll, launched her career from New Orleans. Rainey was one of the few out lesbians in music at the time and ...

Club My-O-My was a West End institution known for its female impersonators. It thrived for four decades until a Jan. 5, 1972, fire destroyed the club and Kirsch's Seafood Restaurant next door.

The amazing mini-documentary ‘Club My-O-My: New Orleans Vintage Drag’, produced by the New Orleans Historical Society, includes interviews with the now retired Bobby Lane and Jimmy Callaway.