After the 2016 massacre of 49 people at Orlando's Pulse dance club, fresh attention landed on a tragedy in the gay community decades earlier. On June 24, 1973, an arsonist set fire to the UpStairs Lounge, a gay bar in New Orleans' French Quarter, killing 32 people. The crime was never officially...
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune at 01:00PM on July 6, 2018