Skylar Fein’s Remember the Upstairs Lounge, which debuted in 2008 during Prospect 1, is a multimedia installation that pays homage to the 32 victims of the 1973 arson fire at the Upstairs Lounge, a gay bar in the French Quarter. In Let the Faggots Burn, author Johnny Townsend restores this tragic event to its proper place in LGBT history and reminds us that the victims of the blaze were not just 'statistics,' but real people with real lives, families, and friends. Other installations are part of NOMA’s permanent collection.
Author Johnny Townsend pored through old records and tracked down survivors of the fire and relatives and friends of those killed to compile this fascinating account of a forgotten moment in gay history. During this era of rampant homophobia, several families refused to claim the bodies, and many churches refused to bury the dead.
Two children waited outside of a movie theater across town for a father and step-father who would never pick them up. A man who'd helped his friend escape first was found dead near the fire escape. A mother who'd gone to the bar with her two gay sons died alongside them. As of Wednesday, November 10, Louisianas hospitalization rate is the lowest in the U.S.
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Forty years ago on Monday, massive panic broke out when the. Then: I have always been a person of serial passions. Click here to find the best gay bars in the French Quarter. New Orleans this week remembers the victims of an attack on a gay bar the tragedy has been dubbed the Stonewall of New Orleans. The famed Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop was built between 17 by Nicolas Touze, making it the oldest bar in New Orleans. In the terrible inferno that followed, thirty-two people lost their lives, including a third of the local congregation of the Metropolitan Community Church, their pastor burning to death halfway out a second-story window as he tried to claw his way to freedom. The French Quarter has always embraced the New Orleans LGBT and Gay community. The Napoleon House is one of New Orleans most-visited restaurants and decorations and classical music from the 18 th century. On Gay Pride Day in 1973, someone set the entrance to a French Quarter gay bar on fire. The term shotgun originates from the idea that when standing in. Some have a camelback a second story set at rear of house. Many feature charming Victorian embellishments beneath the large front eve.
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