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

Contents:

• BEFORE ORLANDO SHOOTG, AN ANTI-GAY MASSACRE NEW ORLEANS WAS LARGELY FOTTEN
• A ‘FOTTEN TRAGEDY’ AT A NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR AND A NEW EFFORT TO HONOR VICTIMS’ REMAS
• IN 1973, AN ARSON KILLED 32 PEOPLE AT A GAY BAR. FOR YEARS, IT WAS FOTTEN

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

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.

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.

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

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.

IN 1973, AN ARSON KILLED 32 PEOPLE AT A GAY BAR. FOR YEARS, IT WAS FOTTEN

On December 31, 2013, an attempted arson attack at a Seattle gay nightclub threatened to burn 750 people alive. Three men threw chunks of ncrete to a gay bar Galvton, Texas, March 2009. A man opened fire a Roanoke, Virgia, gay bar September 2000, killg one and jurg six.

Eric Rudolph, the famo Olympic Park bomber, was behd a Febary 1997 bombg of a gay and lbian nightclub Atlanta. And the woman he married soon after the attack later told the fire marshal their relatnship had never been nsummated and that he’d admted he was gay.

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.