Now an exhibition by the artist Skylar Fein is shedding light on this macabre and overlooked episode. As time passed, little attention was paid to the victims.
(The Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Fla., which killed 49 people, took that grim title in 2016.) Long considered arson, the case remains unsolved the prime suspect, who was never charged, committed suicide a year after the fire. Thirty-one men and one woman died in what was then the largest mass killing of gay people in American history.
NEW ORLEANS - In 1973, the UpStairs Lounge, a bar in the French Quarter here, went up in flames one hot summer night.
