So many of my recent profiles have been of guys from New Orleans that it seemed apropos to post a photo collection. I've been three times, once for spring break, once for a conference at Tulane University, and once for Halloween, so I've actually met two or three of these guys. I'm not saying which.
The Halloween visit was my favorite.
This dude is actually from Donaldsonville, about 60 miles west. Close enough.
I'm interested in the Afro-Caribbean religions, the religions that enslaved West Africans brought with them and kept hidden under their forced Christian practices. When they were forced into Roman Catholicism, as in New Orleans and Haiti, they found a lot of statues of saints that could be used for venerating their orishas. The result was what we now call voodoo.
But avoid the tourist-trap voodoo shops.
A cute naked guy, lapsed Pentecostal.
An actor, mostly in local theater, not nearly as big has his photo suggests.
More after the break. Caution: explicit.