LOUD: New Orleans Queer Youth Theater

Hey Y'all! Programming starts in the fall and we need your help! We're hiring a co-director, company manager, and apprentices. If you think you are good fit or know someone who would be a good fit. Please apply!!! We are looking for unapologetic, Loud, Young Black Q***r folks in New Orleans! Links in bio! Reach out to [email protected] if you have any questions. 🌈🤎🦋

LOUD GAYLA '24
Thank you to the attendees, performers,
our Faerie council, volunteers and our fabulous donors! Couldn't do it without you! We had a blast and brought in some COINS. A wonderful way to celebrate 10 years! You can always donate via our website linked in bio. We are so full and can't wait to launch into this New Season!

Meet the extraordinary performers who are bringing all the GAY to the Gayla! Make sure to bring some dollars to make them Holla. This is going to be an event you don’t want to miss!
Let’s dance, mingle, and show your pride while raising funds for LOUD’s 2024/2025 season. Tickets include light refreshments, amazing performances and a beer/wine open bar. The perfect closing event for the end of pride month! Link in Bio ***ryouththeater

Ross (They/Them/Dey/Dem) Incoming Co-Director of Theater Production

Ross (24) is a q***r, creative, radical anarchist ,
New Orleans native with a mindset for a change. They have roots in interdisciplinary
performance art, visual art, dramaturgy, poetry, photography, creative writing and event planning. This is
coupled with a strong love, passion and background for elevated education through art and
organizing for other black q***r creatives. While usually found on the run crew, they are not
afraid to step out and perform.
“My being here is a manifestation of the many dreams my mentors and predecessors had. I am excited to be the catalyst in which their dreams and mine converge for a brilliant new and exciting chapter of LOUD’s existence.”
With an Abundance of Gratitude - Ross

📣Black Q***r and Trans youth under 25! In honor of 10 Years of LOUD we are hosting a Pride Masquerade GAYla on June 28th at the André Cailloux Center (2541 Bayou Rd) and its FREEEEE for Ex LOUD Members and Black Q***r and Trans youth under 25. To receive your free ticket, please fill out the link in our Bio!
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FreeQuency (pronouns Free) the Director of Youth Learning and Liberatory Propoganda at LOUD. Free is a storyteller, organizer, speaker, host, workshop leader, chaos collagist, youth worker & performance artist, FreeQuency is a gender renegade Kenyan e|immigrant who self identifies as masculine off center, femme adjacent, an AunTea and|or a prettyboi. FreeQuency’s anti-disciplinary work interrogates and occupies the in between while exploring the nuances and stark contradictions of existence under racialized capitalism. This humanoid is the 2018 Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion, the founder of Paza Sauti: Kenya & has been featured in or written for The Independent, the New York Times, OkayAfrica & many other outlets. Recently, FreeQuency has been awarded the Louisiana Worldmakers Grant (2020), the National Performance Network Take Notice Grant (2020) as well as residencies from A Studio in the Woods (2021) & The SIPP Cultural Center (2021). Their poetry & performances have amassed over 2 million views online including a TED talk that almost didn’t get released.

Harlem Balls- They were a place where young black artists could explore s*x, s*xuality and gender. A beginning of a new drag ballroom scene. It was an era of reinvestment and loud experimentation! Joins us in shaking a tail feather! Let’s dance, mingle, and show your pride while raising funds for LOUD’s 2024/2025 season. Tickets include light refreshments, amazing performances and a beer/wine open bar. The perfect closing event for the end of pride month ***ryouththeater

It’s giving GAYla! Help us celebrate our 10 year anniversary!
Get ready to dance, mingle, and show your pride while raising funds for LOUD’s 2024/2025 season. Tickets include light refreshments, amazing performances and a beer/wine open bar. Let’s make this GAYLA the loudest and proudest one yet! Link in Bio! ***r
*MASKS ARE MANDATORY! There will be masks available at the event, and we encourage folks to decorate and bring their own. We will be honoring the person with the best mask with a super special and secret surprise💚

A great service provided by please join us! Also shout out to .xix and who are in the fierce and free cohort with

Jimmy Dainels was a q***r performing artist during the Renaissance era. He was born in Texas and was an electric fan favorite in the New York harlem scene. Jimmy owned a nightclub in Harlem that hosted actors, singers, socialites, and athletes. Jimmy’s performance style and night club allowed for other artists to be inspired and create new inspirations of art.

🚨THIS 💪🏿IS 💪🏾NOT 💪🏽A 💪🏿DRILL🚨on Sunday May 12th, 2024 is hosting a fundraiser for LOUD and one of the competitors is our former CoDirector (known affectionately as “SirLADY CryBaby, defender of the mother-less children” when their bare arms 💪🏽are 💪🏽out 💪🏽read on for the formal invitation ••• Friends & Comrades,

In honor of all the martyred mothers of Gaza, you are cordially invited to cheer on the unofficially official Free People’s Champ—SirLady CryBaby at ••• Tomorrow night at Saturn Bar it’s going down at the Crescent City Ladies Arm Wrestling Mother’s Day Brawl! Doors open at 8, Match starts at 9. Proceeds go towards LOUD Q***r Youth Theater. Come dressed to impress in Red, Black, White & Green with your keffiyehs and flags! From the party to the streets, Palestine will be free!”

Ma Rainey The mother of blues! The woman who was the precursor to a whole cultural movement because of her original lyrics that explored her life as an independent openly bis*xual African American woman. Her artistry has inspired writers like Angela Davis and August Wilson. A true, renaissance woman! She is the definition of LOUD. Singing the blues! Turning heads with her voice and with her rumored lover Bessie Smith. She will forever ever be the definition of a renaissance woman!

SUPPLIES NEEDED ON SITE
- pillows and camping mats
-lots of ice and coolers
-handfans or other wireless cooling tools such as cooling packs
-bandanas or cheap sun hats
-bodies especially as the sun goes down

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ever see LOUD's posts and wonder... who all there 👀? we're about to show you! over the next few weeks we'll be highlighting our team, starting this week with our Operations & Development Director (ODD) - laura ekua.

In a cinematic return! We bring to you the return of the 10 year 10K campaign. Give Nola day is fast approaching and we need your support! Join us as we claim this LOUD Renaissance, a resurgence of Black and Q***r excellence as we emerge from our metamorphosis! Get your bacon, bread, cabbage, cheddah, cold hard cash ready for early giving on April 22nd and GiveNola Day on May 7th. Link in the bio darlings!
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There were an abundance of Q***r artists during the Harlem renaissance. This led to an influx of new networks for q***r artists. This included performer’s like Ma Rainey, Jimmie Daniel’s, and Gladys Bentley. Harlem Balls also became a space for liberation for Black q***rs at the time. In preparation for Give Nola join as we celebrate the LOUD Proud and in color Black Q***r artists of the Harlem Renaissance! It's gonna be the gag of the season, so stay tuned - you wouldn't wanna miss this 🩷🧡💛💚💙🩵💜🤎🖤
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Yesterday we marched. Today we strike