October is Gay History Month. All throughout the month we'll revis stori that shed light on lser-known moments LGBT history. June 24, 1973 marked
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- IN 1973, AN ARSON KILLED 32 PEOPLE AT A GAY BAR. FOR YEARS, IT WAS FOTTEN
- NEW ORLEANS SEARCH FOR REMAS OF 4 VICTIMS OF 1973 GAY BAR FIRE THAT KILLED 31
- FORTY FIVE YEARS AGO A FIRE NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR TOOK 32 LIV – AND WAS MET WH APATHY
- SEARCH RENEWED FOR REMAS OF 4 VICTIMS OF 1973 GAY BAR FIRE
- ALMOST 50 YEARS LATER, ADLY ATTACK AT NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR REMAS UNSOLVED
- OUT OF THE PAST: 32 KILLED IN HORRIFIC FIREBOMBG OF GAY BAR (1973)
- A FIRE KILLED 32 AT A NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR. THIS ARTIST DIDN’T FET.
IN 1973, AN ARSON KILLED 32 PEOPLE AT A GAY BAR. FOR YEARS, IT WAS FOTTEN
Forty-five years after the UpStairs Lounge fire, the largt gay mass murr prr to the Pulse shootg, one of the "unclaimed" victims has fally been ID'd. * 1973 gay bar fire *
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.
NEW ORLEANS SEARCH FOR REMAS OF 4 VICTIMS OF 1973 GAY BAR FIRE THAT KILLED 31
Book chronicl 1973 arson at gay club that barely ma to the papers, or even to the nscns of the muny * 1973 gay bar fire *
“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.
FORTY FIVE YEARS AGO A FIRE NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR TOOK 32 LIV – AND WAS MET WH APATHY
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 — three of them never intified. * 1973 gay bar fire *
On June 24, 1973, a fire ripped through the Up Stairs Lounge — a gay bar the French Quarter of New Orleans.
SEARCH RENEWED FOR REMAS OF 4 VICTIMS OF 1973 GAY BAR FIRE
Much of the history was swept om memory due to homophobia.
The Tim-Piyune scrib the cy at the time as "extremely homophobic. " Police would raid gay bars equently and employment discrimatn agast gays was " rigr.
" Homosexualy was nsired a psychiatric disorr.
ALMOST 50 YEARS LATER, ADLY ATTACK AT NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR REMAS UNSOLVED
" The man spected of startg the fire, Roger Nunez, was gay himself and had been kicked out of the bar earlier.
The Tim-Piyune said the fire was "a turng pot for the cy's gay muny.
"By early fall, there was creasg evince that the tragedy had roed a dre of gay New Orleanians ways unthkable jt a season before, " thor Robert Fieler wr Trbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberatn.
OUT OF THE PAST: 32 KILLED IN HORRIFIC FIREBOMBG OF GAY BAR (1973)
About was six months after the adly fire, December 1973, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn clared homosexualy was not a mental disorr. Frost (above), cir 1962 or 1963This year marks the 45th anniversary of the UpStairs Lounge arson, an event that was the largt mass murr of gay people U. History for over four s -- until the Pulse June 24, 1973, an arsonist set fire to the popular gay bar loted on the edge of the French Quarter New Orleans.
A major source of nam was the New Orleans branch of the Metropolan Communy Church, a recently formed gay-affirmg Christian nomatn wh ngregatns around the untry.
A FIRE KILLED 32 AT A NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR. THIS ARTIST DIDN’T FET.
Troy Perry, the founr of the Metropolan Communy Church, Larson's mother didn't claim Bill's body for burial bee she was embarrassed that he was publicly intified as a gay man who died a gay bar. Nancy fend her mom, sayg, "I wouldn't say she was open-md and I'm sure my father fely was not, but 's not like I thk they would disown [Larry] or anythg like that [for beg gay].... In the wake of the adly fire, most people turned their backs on the victims and the gay muny.
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.