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'View UpStairs' goes back in time to tragic fire in the gay community of 1973 New Orleans by Kerry Reid

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

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