Frank Perez

Frank Perez is a writer, teacher, tour guide, and public speaker who also serves as the executive director of the LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana. He is also the editor of Ambush Magazine. He has authored several books on New Orleans queer history and written hundreds of articles on the same topic. His publications also include a number of scholarly articles in academic journals as well as a number of poems and short stories in various literary journals. His latest book, Café Lafitte in Exile: Queer New Orleans and the Story of America’s Oldest Gay Bar, is forthcoming from the LSU Press.