'My concerns are rooted not in suspicion, but in history.' On the anniversary of the 1973 Up Stairs Lounge arson in New Orleans—one of the worst mass killings of gay people in America—wordbobby warns the fight for LGBTQ equality is far from over.
Prejudice & Pride: Revisiting the tragic fire that killed 32 in a New Orleans gay bar
They will make trans and gender-queer citizens the test case in private hospitals, locker rooms and bathrooms – opportunistic locations, where exposed bodies can become the objects of ideological interrogation. There, trans and gender-queer students and patients now oddly lack the same protections as the average LGBTQ employee. And it would be naïve for gays and lesbians to think that such interrogations will end with their bodies.
Joseph Fons holds a Pride Flag as he walks back and forth in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building after the court ruled that LGBTQ people can not be disciplined or fired based on their sexual orientation, June 15, 2020 in Washington.My concerns are rooted not in suspicion, but in history. Forty-seven years ago today, on the night of June 24, 1973, fire struck a working-class gay bar called the Up Stairs Lounge on the ragged edge of New Orleans’ French Quarter.
A firefighter examines the remains of the UpStairs Lounge on June 24, 1973, after a fire that left 32 dead.
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