GAY NEW ORLEANS REAL ESTATE

Attracted by New Orleans open-mindedness, fabulous architecture, Southern hospitality and warm weather, many gay and lesbian visitors have come to New Orleans on vacation and never left. Area New Orleans REALTORS can help you find your perfect piece of real estate in New Orleans. 

Gay and lesbians have been calling New Orleans home since the city was founded in 1718. In the late 1800's and early 1900's New Orleans was known as  home to a literary and artistic scene where the gay aesthetic was right at the surface. Such was its reputation that New Orleans purportedly attracted none other than former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who, according to one biographer, was arrested in New Orleans on a morals charge in the late 1920s. 

Faubourg Marigny, the first community in the city founded outside the cramped confines of the Quarter in about 1810. Many of the area's French colonial mansions have been restored by gay couples (witness the numerous rainbow flags) and yuppies, although the restoration isn't complete -- there are still a few crumbling mansions in neglected pockets.