Arson at Upstairs Lounge

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Four years after the Stonewall Inn Uprising, and 49 years ago today, there was an arson attack at Upstairs Lounge, a gay bar in New Orleans, LA. The event was the worst fire in New Orleans' history, and the deadliest attack on the LGBTQIA+ community in American history until the mass shooting at Pulse Orlando in 2016. Thirty-two people were killed and many more gravely injured as the Upstairs Lounge burned in 1973.

Writing and research by Aurora Cady.

Original music and audio production by Louis Levesque.
For inquiries: louis14levesque@gmail.com

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LINKS + SOURCES:

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/36236137-tinderbox

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14548906-let-the-faggots-burn?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=VZhzOoKXYR&rank=1 

Upstairs Inferno:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3088882/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots#:~:text=The%20Stonewall%20riots%20(also%20known,the%20Greenwich%20Village%20neighborhood%20of 

https://www.history.com/topics/gay-rights/the-stonewall-riots 

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/louisiana-police-sting-gay-men-anti-sodomy-law_n_3668116

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/26/us/marsha-p-johnson-biography/index.html

https://stevenwarranresearch.blogspot.com/2014/08/where-is-mother-paupers-grave-is-near.html

https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/exhibits/show/upstairs-lounge-fire

https://southernspaces.org/2022/beer-prayer-and-nellydrama-impossibilities-max-vernons-view-upstairs/ 

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