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:
- FIRST LOOK: THE TRIANGLE — A LEGENDARY GAY BAR — IS RURRECTED
- A ‘FOTTEN TRAGEDY’ AT A NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR AND A NEW EFFORT TO HONOR VICTIMS’ REMAS
- WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE
- FLT GAY BAR ADAPTG TO CHANGG SCENE AS POPULARY GROWS AMONG STRAIGHT PATRONS
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
FIRST LOOK: THE TRIANGLE — A LEGENDARY GAY BAR — IS RURRECTED
The Triangle Bar opens on Friday, December 15, returng a gay bar, fe and nightclub to the triangle-shaped buildg at 2036 Broadway. * the triangle gay bar *
One of Denver's legendary gay bars, the Triangle, stood s ground for s on the edge of downtown. 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. “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.
A ‘FOTTEN TRAGEDY’ AT A NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR AND A NEW EFFORT TO HONOR VICTIMS’ REMAS
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LeBlanc was a 50-year-old gay man who was loved and accepted by his fay.
WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE
The scene at Club Triangle is changg. Once known for servg an almost exclively gay clientele, a more diverse crowd is g through the door, and owner Mike Contos is tryg to figure out the new bs mol for a gay bar that’s no longer jt a gay bar. * the triangle gay bar *
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. His book tails the aftermath of the fire, which was no ls trmatic – fai ashamed to claim loved on, the church this eply Catholic cy refg proper burial rights, and a botched vtigatn all reflected a world of toxic prejudice and rampant homophobia that thrived after the fire.
FLT GAY BAR ADAPTG TO CHANGG SCENE AS POPULARY GROWS AMONG STRAIGHT PATRONS
In New Orleans, lol verage has been scribed as sensive, llo, and homophobic wh ltle foc on the vtigatn. He tracked down survivors of the fire and relativ and iends of those killed to pile an acunt of a fotten moment gay history his book, “Let the Faggots Burn: The UpStairs Lounge Fire. The Abbey, arguably the untry’s biggt and most famo gay bar Wt Hollywood, is officially on the market.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
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