Mardi Gras isn’t until March and a flight to New Orleans is a little costly; however, you can get a taste of Bourbon Street at 

I recently learned about this fundraiser for the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland and I’m really excited to help spread the word by giving away two tickets.

With the Gay Games coming to Cleveland in 2014, the LGBT Community Center has been working with the City of Cleveland, businesses and other groups to nurture a strong and supportive community for LGBT Clevelanders and visitors.  Programs like Project 180 provide educational and training presentations to increase awareness of issues affecting the LGBT community and create safe work and school environments.

This is in addition to the counseling, special programming for LGBT youth and seniors, free and anonymous HIV testing, and discussion groups they have provided for decades.

To continue providing these services, the LGBT Community Center is throwing the Bourbon Street Ball from 6 to 10 pm on October 27.

When the red carpet is rolled out at the Cleveland House of Blues, attendees will enjoy cajun food, drinks from Southern Comfort, and entertainment that will have you laughing and dancing throughout the night.

Your hosts for the evening will be Kory of Cleveland’s New 102 Radio and Veranda L’Ni, the tallest drag queen in Cleveland and hostess of Drag Bingo at TWIST Social Club.

They’ll be joined by comedian Suzanne Westenhoefer and percussionist/dancer Elec Simon, a former cast member and still occasional tour member of the Broadway production of STOMP.

General admission to the Bourbon Street Ball costs $95, which includes drink coupons, cajun bites, the live performances, photo ops and an auction. VIP tickets and discounts for low income seniors and students are available at bourbonstreetball.com.

You can also enter my giveaway for a pair of general admission tickets. How to enter: Do one, some, or all five of the entries. A separate comment is needed for each.

There are 5 Easy Ways to Enter the Giveaway
**You must leave a separate comment on this post for each entry**

1) Check out the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland’s programs and services and leave a comment on this post with one thing you learned about their offerings.

2) Follow @BourbonStBall and @ADHicken on Twitter and leave one comment on this post telling me you did both.

3) If you’re a fan of Clue Into Cleveland and Bourbon Street Ball on Facebook, leave one comment on this blog post letting me know. If you’re not yet a fan, you can become one here and here.

4) Tweet the following and leave one comment letting me know you tweeted:

I want to win a trip to the #CLE @BourbonStBall. Enter @ADHicken’s giveaway for your chance to win tickets: http://wp.me/p2Ukr0-2fI

You can tweet once per day for additional entries. Just leave a separate comment each time you tweet.

5) Subscribe to Clue Into Cleveland via a feed tracker like Bloglovin’ or Feedly and leave one comment letting me know you did. This can also include signing up to receive email notifications in the top-right “Subscribe” section of this page.

You have until Thursday, October 17 at 11:59 PM to enter. Random.org will select the winner, which I will announce on Friday, October 18. Remember to leave a separate comment for each entry – good luck!

Disclosure: I was invited to attend Bourbon Street Ball with a guest in exchange for hosting a giveaway. My choice to post about this event and opinions are 100% my own.