Items related to Let the Faggots Burn: The UpStairs Lounge Fire
On Gay Pride Day in 1973, an arsonist set the entrance to a French Quarter gay bar on fire. In the terrible inferno that followed, 32 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. A mother who'd gone to the bar with her two gay sons died alongside them. A man who'd helped his friend escape first was found dead near the fire escape. Two children waited outside of a movie theater across town for a father and step-father who would never pick them up. During this era of rampant homophobia, several families refused to claim the bodies, and many churches refused to bury the dead. 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.
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"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." Jesse Monteagudo, The Bilerico Project
In Let the Faggots Burn, "Townsend's heart-rending descriptions of the victims...seem to [make them] come alive once more." Kit Van Cleave, OutSmart Magazine
In Let the Faggots Burn, "Townsend's heart-rending descriptions of the victims...seem to [make them] come alive once more." Kit Van Cleave, OutSmart Magazine
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- PublisherBooklocker.Com Inc
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1614344531
- ISBN 13 9781614344537
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages333
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