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5 cities where retirement is great (and one you may not have thought of)
Whether you’re a couch potato or disco napper, the world is at your doorstep in these five world-class cities.
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CDC officials urge calm after Texas reports its first monkeypox-related death
There have only been 12 reported deaths of people with the virus among the nearly 50,000 cases reported worldwide.
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Exclusive: New White House monkeypox strategy targets Pride events
A pilot program rolls out this weekend at Charlotte Pride with pop-up vaccination sites before moving on to Atlanta Pride and New Orleans for Southern Decadence.
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New Orleans braces for superspreader event as monkeypox vaccine remains scarce
Labor Day weekend’s Southern Decadence circuit party attracts 100,000-300,000 participants from around the world.
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Small farewell party transforms into huge gay celebration
“It’s a celebration of gay culture that’s fun and held in a city that’s very welcoming. It’s a unique, one-of-a-kind event. I don’t know if any other city could handle it.”
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Southern Decadence lures gays to hopeful ‘honeymoon haven’ New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — Thousands of visitors rolled into New Orleans this week for Southern Decadence: five days of celebration of gay culture in a city now being promoted by tourism officials as a honeymoon site for same-sex newlyweds – despite the state’s constitutional ban on gay marriage.
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Televangelist Rick Joyner: God sent Katrina because of the gays
Apparently, one unnamed U.S. senator has been going to televangelist whackjob Rick Joyner for advice. On one occasion, Joyner told the unnamed senator that Hurricane Katrina was God’s judgment for homosexuality, because Katrina came just before New Orleans was scheduled to have its annual gay “Southern Decadence” celebration.
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Anti-gay pastor arrested for masturbating near children’s playground
A conservative, anti-gay pastor who has staged protests against New Orleans’ Southern Decadence Festival, calling the predominantly gay event “perversion,” has been arrested for allegedly masturbating in a park adjacent to a children’s playground.
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Revelers descend on New Orleans for annual ‘Southern Decadence’
Thousands of tourists, gay and straight, are descending on New Orleans this weekend for the annual Southern Decadence Festival, which organizers says is “one of the gay world’s major annual events.” In the almost four decades since it started, Southern Decadence has become a traditional Labor Day weekend, end-of-summer, event. But for two of the […]