The first Wednesday of every month, including today, July 7, is our OPEN MEETING! It’s at 8pm. Please join us– bring food & drink if you’d like to– at the New Orleans LGBT center, 2114 Decatur Street, between Frenchmen and Elysian Fields. Since our French Quarter reopening the Rail has been inundated with love. It [...]
I bet it depresses the hell out you to have those unreturned Iron Rail library books weeping like paper-pulp orphans in the shelves of your household. The earnest stamps on the title page, the out-of-date phone number, the 2007 “date due” penciled on the rear inside cover… but even though the Rail is temporarily closed, [...]
The Iron Rail will be closed Tuesday, March 8th
Last week New Orleans lost a pillar of the community, one of the people building and supporting our city’s more hopeful future. Boris Scott, 53 years old, was born and raised here; his family ran a neighborhood corner store. Mr. Scott was (among very many other responsibilities and accomplishments) an organizer for STAND with Dignity, [...]
February 26, 2011 – 5:48 am
this essay by Jules Bentley was originally written at the request of the excellent & rightly beloved slingshot collective in california. unfortunately, it missed the deadline for publication. So here it is, while it’s still at least even a tiny bit timely… by Jules Bentley from the forthcoming 2nd issue of the Raging Pelican intro: [...]
December 24, 2010 – 11:45 pm
“…any of us can die any damn minute of any damn day of our lives. If you’re ever lucky enough to belong somewhere, if a place takes you in and you take it into yourself, you don’t desert it just because it can kill you. There are things more valuable than life.” – Poppy Z [...]
November 13, 2010 – 3:05 pm
This date will always belong to honoring the memory of Eddie Guerrero. RIP vato… we love you, and we miss you.
the Iron Rael now has its own custom wordpress implementation. This took way too long but it’s about done. Now err’body can edit err’thing theyself.
Second Line for Healthcare & Education!Friday, April 9, 5:30 pm, Lafayette Square Park in New OrleansPlease spread the word… re-mail & forward! More press = betterrrr There’s going to be a big, crazy second line in the CBD on Friday: the Stooges Brass Band, the Free Agents Brass Band, and a level of ass-shaking the [...]
Have you heard about the SRLC Welcoming Committee? We are a coalition of New Orleans individuals and groups (including the Committee to Save Charity Hospital) coming together to welcome the Southern Republican Leadership Committee to New Orleans by letting them and the world know what we think of Republican governor Bobby Jindal’s ruthless assaults on Louisiana [...]
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