In 1973, An Arson Killed 32 People At A Gay Bar. For Years, It Was Fotten : NPR

BEFORE ORLANDO SHOOTG, AN ANTI-GAY MASSACRE NEW ORLEANS WAS LARGELY FOTTEN

Until the mass shootg Orlando, the adlit attack on LGBT people the U.S. belonged to New Orleans. A 1973 gay bar arson attack killed 32. * gay club shooting new orleans *

Arnold/Associated PrsJune 14, 2016The terrorist attack that killed 49 and wound 53 Orlando, Fla., was the largt mass killg of gay people Amerin history, but before Sunday that grim distctn was held by a largely fotten arson at a New Orleans bar 1973 that killed 32 people at a time of pernic anti-gay stigma. “His mother refed to llect his ash bee she was too embarrassed that she had a gay son, ” Mr. People have a place at the table now that they did not have then, ” said Clayton Delery-Edwards, who wrote a book about the arson that was published fire was an open wound for the gay muny New Orleans for years.

A ‘FOTTEN TRAGEDY’ AT A NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR AND A NEW EFFORT TO HONOR VICTIMS’ REMAS

Survivors had to ny any nnectn to the fire, cludg the loss of loved on, bee they uld lose their jobs or apartments if boss and landlords spected they were gay. A history of attacks on gay nightclubs.

A June 24, 1973, arson attack on the Up Stairs Lounge, a gay bar, killed 32. A fire termed to be arson tore through the Up Stairs Lounge, a gay bar the French Quarter, killg 32 people. He wasn’t there at the Up Stairs Lounge on June 24, 1973, when igned lighter fluid a stairwell unleashed hell on New Orleans’ gay muny.

One patron featured Cama’s film said those the bar beme his fay; he no longer felt fortable wh his own bee he was gay. Lnched 1968, was the world’s first Christian church to offer an clive mistry to the gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr muny. Three years before the Up Stairs Lounge arson attack, Perry helped plan the first Gay Pri Para Los Angel.