These men worked with the traditions of Mardi Gras to bring gay culture into public settings in the early 1960s. By 1969, there were four gay Mardi Gras clubs, legal ly char tered by the state of Louisiana, throwing yearly extravaganzas at civic venues around the cit y. "Society matrons begged for ball tickets from their hairdressers".

They succeeded in bringing down the “Jim Crow” type laws that targeted gay people during this period. For offences such as public assembly, same-sex dancing and cross-dressing you could go to jail, lose your job and worse. They staged a flamboyant costumed revolution without politics and won freedoms during a time, as now, when laws and people fought against them.

The release of the film is scheduled for May 2009.

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Contact: timwolffhouse@yahoo.com


Producer/ director Tim Wolff, received his education from the California Institute of the Arts Directing for Theatre and Film program, studying closely with director Alexander Mackendrick and two-time Oscar winning documentarian Terry Sanders. In 1999, he began the first of four productions at HBO as a producer.
He produced two segments for the adult magazine show Real Sex, working closely with “Wigstock: the movie” filmmaker Barry Shils. This is his first feature documentary with WOLFFHOUSE