Remembering the gay bar inferno that most people have forgotten [View all]
The 2016 massacre at Pulse in Orlando was, at the time, the worst mass shooting in US history. Most of those killed were members of the LGBTI community. Gay people across the world remember and mark the tragedy.
However, it wasn’t the first time that dozens of people have been killed in a gay bar in the US.
The arson attack on the Upstairs Lounge in New Orleans in 1973 killed 32 people. Despite this, outside of Louisiana, the world has largely forgotten about it.
It happened at a time when politicians were far less likely to condemn the deaths of LGBTI people. Indeed, decades passed before the city of New Orleans erected a permanent memorial to this tragic event.
February is LGBT+ History Month in the UK. To coincide with this, a documentary, Upstairs Inferno, is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. The award-winning film explores the full, tragic story – including interviews with former bar regulars and survivors.
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