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Gay Appreciation Awards Gala Announces WinnersSaturday, July 19 at Marigny Theatrebenefiting Buzzy's Boys & Girls

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Rouge, Bobby Blue/New Orleans, HeadQuarters/New Orleans, Mickey Nolan/NewOrleans, Salon D'Malta/New Orleans;

Gay Carnival Ball of the Year-Krewe ofAmon Ra/New Orleans, Krewe of Apollo/Baton Rouge, Krewe of Armeinius/NewOrleans, Lords of Leather/New Orleans,Mystic Krewe of Satyricon/New Orleans;

Neighborhood Bar of the Year-CafeLafitte in Exile/New Orleans, Cowpokes/New Orleans, Friendly Bar/New Orleans,George's Place/Baton Rouge, GoldenLantern/New Orleans;

Buzzy Fanning AIDS Award-Gay Eas-ter Parade/New Orleans, Greg T. Bell AIDSFoundation/Baton Rouge, Michael "Fish"Hickerson/New Orleans, Toby Lefort/NewOrleans, NO/AIDS Task Force/New Or-leans;

Bitch of the Year-Mia Bonet/BatonRouge, Electra City/New Orleans, Gia/Baton Rouge, Rusty Laroux/New Orleans,Brittney O'Bryan/New Orleans;

Show Bar of the Year-Cowpokes/NewOrleans, Oz/New Orleans, Parade/NewOrleans, Splash/Baton Rouge, StarlightBy The Park/New Orleans;

Performing Arts Award-Glitz/New Or-leans, La Femme Rouge/Baton Rouge,Naked Boys Singing/New Orleans, NewOrleans Gay Men's Chorus, To Do Pro-ductions-Marigny Theatre/New Orleans;

Restaurant/Deli of the Year-CloverGrill/New Orleans, Mestizo's/BatonRouge, Mona Lisa/New Orleans, Quar-termaster: The Nellie Deli/New Orleans,Tomatillo's/New Orleans;

Dance Bar of the Year-Cowpokes/New Orleans, Oz/New Orleans, Parade/New Orleans, Sound Factory/Lafayette,Splash/Baton Rouge;

Bartender of the Year-Aletha Bryant/Cafe Lafitte in Exile, Stephen Murrell/Cow-pokes, Jeff Palmquist/Cafe Lafitte in Exile,Lance Pippin/Golden Lantern, LanceYoung/Splash;

DJ of the Year-Karen Baker/Splash,Johnny Love/Cafe Lafitte in Exile, TimPflueger/Oz, Myke/Cafe Lafitte in Exile,Richie Rich/Cowpokes,

Leather Bar of the Year-Cowpokes/New Orleans, JohnPaul's/New Orleans,Phoenix/New Orleans, Ramrod/Ft. Lau-derdale, Rawhide 2010/New Orleans;

GLBT Business of the Year-Alterna-tives, Hit Parade, Queen Fashions, RabDab, Wood Enterprises/all New Orleans;

Leather Person of the Year-MinaHernandez/New Orleans, George Hester/New Orleans, Denny Summors/New Or-leans, Solitaire/Baton Rouge, GaryVandeventer/New Orleans;

Transgender of the Year-Regina

New Orleans celebrity SavannaDeLorean will guest emceethe 21st annual Gay Appre-

ciation Awards (GAA) Gala at Marigny The-atre, 1030 Marigny St., New Orleans, Sat-urday, July 19. Beginning at 8pm sharp,doors will open at 7pm. Admission is $10at the door. Members of the GAA Board ofDirectors will join Savanna on stage topresent the award winners throughout theevening including Lisa Beaumann, Teryl-Lynn Foxx, Toni Pizanie, and Rip andMarsha Naquin-Delain. GAA FounderMarcy Marcell and last year's Entertainerof the Year, Princesse Stephaney, are slatedto perform. Additionally, all GAA Top 5 ShowBar of the Year Finalists are scheduled toperform a production number for the event.All proceeds from the event benefit theWilliam Fanning Foundation, better knownas Buzzy’s Boys & Girls, including VIPTable sales, door admissions and stageperformance tips. Ambush sponsors theevent covering all expenses.

Mary L. Lathouwers has been cho-sen unanimously by the Gay AppreciationAwards (GAA) Board of Directors to re-ceive the 21st Lifetime AchievementAward, the highest honor bestowed eachyear at the GAA Gala. Mary is a detective atthe New Orleans Police Department(NOPD) 8th District working on propertycrimes including burglary and fraud. Sheis also the liaison from NOPD to the GLBTcommunity and has worked extensively inensuring the safety of the community atevents including the annual SouthernDecadence celebration Labor Day Week-end. Working for thirteen years in lawenforcement, Mary has been with NOPDfor the past ten years.

Mary and her partner of 19 years,Darlene Gaudin, flew to San Franciscoand legally married on July 7. Californiaallows same sex couples to celebratetheir new found freedom to marry withoutdiscrimination under the law as of June17, 2008.

Past Lifetime Achievement Award re-cipients include Jimmie Callaway, the lateDan Fountain [Betty Buttons], the late AndyBoudreaux, the late Buzzy Fanning, the lateDirty Dottie, the late Miss Fury, Rip & MarshaNaquin-Delain, the late Dan Romero, thelate Miss Do, the late Louise McFarland,Miss Dixie Fasnacht, Alice Brady & JohnDodt, Gene Adams, the late CharleneSchneider, Steve Mettner, Marty Curtin &Koo Gaffney, Donnie Jay, Kitty Blackwell,Michael "Fish" Hickerson, and MarcyMarcell.

The award category winners, thosereceiving the most public votes June 3-9(already one of the Top 5 Finalist), will beannounced at the gala.

The Top 5 Finalist in the public awardvoting categories include:

Circuit Party/Event of the Year-Big GayMusical 2/Baton Rouge, Gay Days/Or-lando, Gay Easter Parade/New Orleans,Halloween/New Orleans, Southern Deca-dence/New Orleans;

Hair Salon of the Year-Avallon/Baton

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Adams/New Orleans, Mia Bonet/BatonRouge, Dee Cooley/New Orleans, Jas-mine SX/Baton Rouge, Marcy Marcell/NewOrleans;

Lesbian of the Year-Karen Baker/Ba-ton Rouge, Marty Curtin/New Orleans,Chansley Dykes/Baton Rouge, MaeFalgout/New Orleans, Mina Hernandez/New Orleans;

Gay Man of the Year-Richard Dykes/Baton Rouge, Robert Gibson/New Or-leans, Ken Grandpre/New Orleans, TobyLefort/New Orleans, Cory Wise/BatonRouge; and

Entertainer of the Year-Elizabeth Bou-vier/New Orleans, Electra City/New Or-leans, Coca/New Orleans, Nicole Foxx/Baton Rouge, Donnie Jay/New Orleans.

The GAA Board of Directors chose theTop 5 Finalist in the following categories:

Cheridon Comedy Award in honor of

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