Read about the cisn of New Orleans to seek the intifitn and lotn of four people who died the 1973 arson at the gay bar UpStairs Lounge.
Contents:
- FORTY FIVE YEARS AGO A FIRE NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR TOOK 32 LIV – AND WAS MET WH APATHY
- NEW ORLEANS SEARCH FOR REMAS OF 4 VICTIMS OF 1973 GAY BAR FIRE THAT KILLED 31
- BOOK REMEMBERS VASTATG 1973 FIRE AT GAY NEW ORLEANS BAR
- INTIFITN EFFORTS RENEWED FOR FOUR VICTIMS OF 1973 ARSON THAT TARGETED NEW ORLEANS GAY CLUB
- NEW ORLEANS GAY MAP
FORTY FIVE YEARS AGO A FIRE NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR TOOK 32 LIV – AND WAS MET WH APATHY
Book chronicl 1973 arson at gay club that barely ma to the papers, or even to the nscns of the muny * gay club fire new orleans *
An oasis for the cy’s sizeable but, for the most part, strictly closeted gay male populatn, a lack of visibily was many ways s most valuable 1973 when the club was set ablaze an act of arson that st a staggerg 32 liv, that lack of attentn endured, the news barely makg to the papers or, seemed, even to the nscns of the lol muny. “An ordary reactn New Orleans society would have been effive sympathi and a large outpourg, ” said Robert Fieler, whose new book Trbox: The Untold Story of the UpStairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberatn, chronicl the blaze and s aftermath.
“Homosexualy was not supposed to be talked about openly, and when was thst to the open ma a lot of people panic, ” he told the Guardian an the time, New Orleans was a place of strange dualy for LGBT people.
“A gay man uld, 1973, live a very full life that he might not be able to enjoy other plac.
NEW ORLEANS SEARCH FOR REMAS OF 4 VICTIMS OF 1973 GAY BAR FIRE THAT KILLED 31
On Sunday June 24, 1973, dozens of patrons had gathered at the Up Stairs Lounge, a gay bar New Orleans when an arsonist set fire to the buildg. * gay club fire new orleans *
Acrdg to Fieler, unrver police would regularly nduct stg operatns to tch gay men solicg for sex public spac, and if ught and arrted on a dread “crim agast nature” charge, the ramifitns the wir world were absolute. You’d lose your job, your home, everythg, ” Fieler the time, a rince occupied by two spected gay men (or two “spsters”) uld be clared a hoe of ill-repute and seized wh ltle to no due the relatively safe space of the UpStairs lounge, a quietly well-known place where gay men (Fieler not that durg this era, the lbian scene was polilly and socially isolated om the gay scene) uld openly be themselv.
“It almost highlights even more the gree of opprsn that many homosexuals lived this time perd.
” Fieler were reports 2016 that, like Nunez, the Pulse shooter was a sexually nflicted man who may have been engaged gay relatnships prr to his rampage.
BOOK REMEMBERS VASTATG 1973 FIRE AT GAY NEW ORLEANS BAR
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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.
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.
INTIFITN EFFORTS RENEWED FOR FOUR VICTIMS OF 1973 ARSON THAT TARGETED NEW ORLEANS GAY CLUB
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“It took a good five or six years before I would fally walk to a gay bar, ” he said. ” 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.
NEW ORLEANS GAY MAP
Nearly a half-century after arson killed 32 people a New Orleans gay bar, the Cy Council has renewed the search for the remas of four victims, cludg three who were never intified.