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New Orleans activists have launched a fundraising campaign to replace the marker honoring those killed in the Upstairs Lounge fire. The group’s aim is to make sure the memory of what happened in 1973 isn’t forgotten.
Heated debate among key investigators continues over the identity of a victim of a 46-year-old hate crime.
Learn about the 1973 fire at the UpStairs Lounge in this film from ABC News Features.
The creator of a new musical about New Orleans's UpStairs Lounge fire says gay tragedies too easily fade from our collective memory.
Defending my decision to name Larry Frost one of the unidentified victims of the 1973 UpStairs Lounge fire, the largest mass killing of gay people prior to the Pulse massacre.
Forty-five years after the UpStairs Lounge fire, the largest gay mass murder prior to the Pulse shooting, one of the "unclaimed" victims has finally been ID'd.Â
"I think it's wrong that we have a bunch of queers in our society," Kalvinn Garcia told police after being arrested.
The 1973 arson targeting the popular gay bar the UpStairs Lounge was the deadliest anti-LGBTQ+ attack until Pulse in 2016.Â
Frustrated at his own scant knowledge of queer events, Brad Dunshee took matters into his own hands and created The Mattachine Podcast.
The Times is making up for failing to carry obits on notable LGBTQ figures at the time of their passing, such as (from left) Emma Stebbins, Alan Turing, and Ma Rainey.
Forty years ago, dozens of people were trapped inside a New Orleans gay bar as it burned down. Now a new book, two films, an art installation, and a musical revisit the tragedy.
For LGBTQ+ History Month, we remember the victims of the 50-year-old massacre.
A dozen cities today honor those killed or wounded in acts of hate and violence.
FIFA continues to defend its choice to host the World Cup in Qatar, which follows antigay Sharia Law.
Making the designation, through a bill passed by Congress and expected to be signed by President Biden, is "absolutely the right thing to do," says U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla.
Orlando's LGBT community is united in grief -- and compassion -- following the mass murder in Las Vegas.
Our top 10 entertainment and events highlights this week include Robin Roberts, the New Jersey Symphony, Cam Gigandet, the Swedish siren Robyn, and that 'amazing' superhero who does whatever a spider can.
Thirty-two people were killed and Upstairs Inferno will be the first to interview a number of the survivors who have been silent all these decades.
Flames from the fire that burned down the popular gay club in the city's Seventh Ward could be seen for miles.
