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Upstairs Inferno is a 2015 American documentary film written, produced, and directed by Robert L. Camina. It chronicles the events surrounding the UpStairs Lounge arson attack on June 24, 1973, in New Orleans , Louisiana and the city's response to the tragedy.
The View UpStairs is a musical with music, lyrics and book by Max Vernon based on the real-life events of the 1973 arson attack at the UpStairs Lounge, a gay bar in New Orleans. This attack resulted in the deaths of 32 people, the deadliest attack [1] on a gay club in U.S. history before the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting. The show is inspired ...
While New York was beset by rain, temperatures in New Orleans hovered in the mid-50s, with a breeze. At midnight, fireworks lit up the sky , rising a thousand feet above the Mississippi River ...
The UpStairs Lounge arson attack, sometimes called the UpStairs Lounge Fire, occurred on June 24, 1973, at a gay bar called the UpStairs (or Up Stairs) Lounge located on the 2nd floor of the 3-story building at 604 Iberville Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States. [2]
New Orleans’ famed Bourbon Street devolved into a grisly crime scene just hours into the new year as a driver plowed a pickup truck through crowds of holiday revelers, killng at least 15 people ...
A young mother teaching her son to read. A former college football player "on top of the world" living in New York City. An 18-year-old aspiring nurse. A father of two remembered as the "life of ...
An edited-for-TV version of the documentary (58 mins.) was aired on Cox 4 in three Louisiana regions: New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Acadiana. Anderson's 4th film, The Upstairs Lounge Fire, documents the 1973 UpStairs Lounge arson attack in New Orleans. The documentary was released on June 24, 2013, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the fire.
UpStairs Lounge arson attack: New Orleans, Louisiana: United States 1973 32: 15 arson Ronsonol lighter fluid Deadliest arson attack in New Orleans at that time, and one of the deadliest attacks on LGBT people in United States history Gulliver's nightclub fire: Port Chester, New York: United States 1974 24: 32 arson