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.
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- FORTY FIVE YEARS AGO A FIRE NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR TOOK 32 LIV – AND WAS MET WH APATHY
- BOOK REMEMBERS VASTATG 1973 FIRE AT GAY NEW ORLEANS BAR
- WATCH: ARSONIST SETS FIRE NYC GAY BAR
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 set on 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.
BOOK REMEMBERS VASTATG 1973 FIRE AT GAY NEW ORLEANS BAR
”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.
WATCH: ARSONIST SETS FIRE NYC GAY BAR
Bettmann via Getty ImagWhat happened the aftermath of the fire mak clear the pervadg homophobia at the time.