Biography Continued...

Staying in San Diego after he was discharged, he developed a deep love for what he felt at the time was a very exotic town. Going to New Orleans for Mardi Gras in 1964, he ended up staying there for the next fifteen years. Making his start there as a waiter, then owner of a gay bar, then a picture framer -- he was quickly drawn into Gay Mardi Gras, with its very structured, constant social scene, unlike any other gay community in the world. Finally meeting Gene with whom he would spend the next 38 years, he settled into the business world. They lived for awhile in Lafayette, Louisiana among the Cajuns before they would move to Seattle. Gay Mardi Gras as they knew it would change completely in the early 1980's because of AIDS. Eventually, Orlando would become home and was where under Gene's guidance, George began to write his stories.

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