After nearly 50 years, New Orleans issued a formal apology for s rponse to an arson at the popular gay bar UpStairs Lounge and renews the search for the remas of four victims.
Contents:
- AT SPEAKEASY, AN INTERSECTN OF MORN AND '70S GAY CULTURE
- A ‘FOTTEN TRAGEDY’ AT A NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR AND A NEW EFFORT TO HONOR VICTIMS’ REMAS
- UPSTAIRS LOUNGE: GAY CULTURE & THE METROPOLAN COMMUNY CHURCH
- A DEADLY ARSON AT A GAY BAR WAS NEVER OFFICIALLY SOLVED. A NEW PODST EXAM WHY.
- REVIEW: A GAY NIGHTCLUB TRAGEDY, DES BEFORE ORLANDO, ‘THE VIEW UPSTAIRS’
AT SPEAKEASY, AN INTERSECTN OF MORN AND '70S GAY CULTURE
"The View UpStairs" is a mil celebratg the history of gay liberatn, but also emphasiz the human need for nnectn. * gay upstairs *
Sunday marks the 45th anniversary of the UpStairs Lounge arson, a flash fire that killed 32 people the New Orleans gay bar on June 24, 1973. ”But the UpStairs wasn’t jt a space for the New Orleans gay muny to e together and socialize.
A ‘FOTTEN TRAGEDY’ AT A NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR AND A NEW EFFORT TO HONOR VICTIMS’ REMAS
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Some of those who were intified went unclaimed by fai who were too ashamed to llect the remas of their gay sons and brothers. Bettmann via Getty ImagWhat happened the aftermath of the fire mak clear the pervadg homophobia at the time.
“It took a good five or six years before I would fally walk to a gay bar, ” he said.
UPSTAIRS LOUNGE: GAY CULTURE & THE METROPOLAN COMMUNY CHURCH
Robert L. Cama's new documentary tak an unflchg look at "the largt gay mass murr U.S. history," the 1973 UpStairs Lounge fire New Orleans. * gay upstairs *
” Click below to see more pictur of the UpStairs Lounge before the earlier versn of this article was published June You GoGay Pri Around The World. " (Courty Nile Stt Stud)One summer eveng 1973, a blazg fire ripped through a vibrant gay bar New Orleans. The fire was set by lighter fluid and s stctn took the liv of 32 people jt mut, makg the arson attack on the UpStairs Lounge the adlit attack on a gay bar U.
Director Pl Daignelt was first drawn to the mil for s celebratn of the history of gay liberatn, but found that the bety of the story li s emphasis on the human need for muny. “The View UpStairs” tersects two generatns: the prent moment and the 1970s era on the precipice of the gay liberatn, a lennial up-and-g fashn signer wh an Instagram followg of 40, 000, buys a shabby buildg the French Quarter. The nstant fight for survival and the fear of ridicule, ostracizatn, and ath erned the liv of many, like the character Buddy, a closeted gay man wh a wife and kids, played by Will McGarrahan.
It’s an “effort to honor those who have ma our liv fiercer, ” says mil theater, “we rarely get to see a gay black lead; one that go on a journey of self-acceptance and self-love.
A DEADLY ARSON AT A GAY BAR WAS NEVER OFFICIALLY SOLVED. A NEW PODST EXAM WHY.
The creator of a new mil about New Orleans's UpStairs Lounge fire says gay tragedi too easily fa om our llective memory. * gay upstairs *
This Saturday, June 24 marks the 50th anniversary of the UpStairs Lounge Fire, an arson attack on a gay bar that claimed 32 liv 1973. Ana Bryant the 1970s wh the ‘save our children’ mpaign is an absolute precursor and parallel to Ron DeSantis today wh the ‘don't say gay’ nonsense, ” Gray explas. NEW ORLEANS – For nearly a half-century, the remas of gay World War II veteran Ferris LeBlanc have been hidn away an overgrown potter’s field on the far east si of New Orleans.
Fifteen people, mostly men, were also jured at the popular New Orleans gay bar, which served as one of the cy’s ma LGBTQ safe spac at the time. Until the Pulse nightclub shootg 2016, the UpStairs Lounge fire was the adlit known attack at a gay club U. “The entire intifitn [of the remas] was summarily dismissed by cy ernment bee they simply did not want to go through the effort of notifyg his fay and also bee they simply didn’t re about another ad gay man, ” Morrell said.
REVIEW: A GAY NIGHTCLUB TRAGEDY, DES BEFORE ORLANDO, ‘THE VIEW UPSTAIRS’
“We are a cy that is seen as one of the most welg ci to the LGBTQIA+ muny, but we were also a cy that was horrifilly homophobic, ” he add. The popular French Quarter gay bar was one of the cy’s ma LGBTQ safe spac at the time. LeBlanc was a 50-year-old gay man who was loved and accepted by his fay.
Robert Fieler, journalist and thor of “Trbox: The Untold Story of the UpStairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberatn, ” chronicled the tragic event not jt his book but to the cy uncil and “anyone who would listen.