It’s the kind of story that could only take place in New Orleans: A lesbian couple move into a former bakery/saloon/hair salon, raise their kids in it, and only sell it when another lesbian couple—who want to turn it into a snowball stand, performance space, antique shop, and home base for their nomadic drag careers—put down an offer.

The likelihood of all this happening, even in New Orleans, is, roughly, a snowball’s chance in hell—which, not entirely coincidentally, is the name new owners Kitten LaRue and Lou Henry Hoover gave the frozen-treat shop that now occupies a bright corner of the property. Larue and Hoover fell for the building, its owners fell for their ambitions for it, and soon enough the property was theirs, along with the empty lot next door.

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