The fire remained the deadliest assault on the LGBTQ+ community in the United States until the 2016 mass shooting at the ...

NEW ORLEANS - This weekend marks 50 years since the deadliest fire in New Orleans history ripped through a French Quarter gay bar, killing 32 people. The Up Stairs Lounge arson is the second ...

Tinderbox' author Robert W. Fieseler on moments of loss and recovery for the queer community — and a stolen bronze monument.

Forgotten 1973 LGBTQ Mass Murder Explored in New Book An interview with 'Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation' author Robert W. Fieseler about ...

The Up Stairs Lounge in the French Quarter was gutted by a fire that killed 32 people June 25, 1973. Most of the victims were found near the windows in the background.

Thirty-two people perished in the Up Stairs Lounge fire in 1973 in New Orleans. This was the worst mass attack on the gay community until the mass shooting at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub last year ...

On June 24, 1973, an arson attack at the Up Stairs Lounge, a gay bar in the French Quarter, claimed 32 lives in what was then the largest mass killing of LGBTQ people in U.S. history. In a time of ...

The Up Stairs Lounge arson is the second deadliest attack on gay people in U.S. history, surpassed in 2016 by the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. No one was ever charged in connection with ...

NEW ORLEANS - This weekend marks 50 years since the deadliest fire in New Orleans history ripped through a French Quarter gay bar, killing 32 people. The Up Stairs Lounge arson is the second ...

A municipal display of LGBT support would have been unlikely a generation ago, but to the patrons of the Up Stairs Lounge, a gay bar on the second floor of a building at the corner of Chartres and ...