90. When Hell Came Up To The 2nd Floor: The UpStairs Lounge Arson

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🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Listener Discretion on this one, kids! Derogatory slang amongst other things.

On the night on June 24, 1973, around 8 pm, someone set fire to the UpStairs Lounge a gay bar located in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Thirty-two people lost their lives.

Many think the police failed to really investigate the arson. The official cause is still listed as "undetermined origin", but many believe it was a man that was thrown out of the bar earlier that night.

Almost 50 years later is it still one of New Orleans' deadliest fires. Up until the Pulse Nightclub shooting in 2016, it was the deadliest incident in the history of violence against the LGBTQ community.

Join Jen and Cam as we discuss the UpStairs Lounge Arson.

Sources

https://www.amazon.com/Tinderbox-Untold-Stairs-Lounge-Liberation/dp/163149595X/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=tinderbox&qid=1594848681&sr=8-2

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=the+upstairs+lounge&crid=1E2DRXVUDFLRS&sprefix=the+upstairs+loun%2Caps%2C198&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_17

https://www.amazon.com/Upstairs-Inferno-Christopher-Rice/dp/B07DM51YX4/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1E2DRXVUDFLRS&dchild=1&keywords=the+upstairs+lounge&qid=1594848714&sprefix=the+upstairs+loun%2Caps%2C198&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.com/Let-Faggots-Burn-Upstairs-Lounge/dp/1614344531

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/07/24/upstairs-lounge-arson-ferris-leblanc

https://zagria.blogspot.com/2018/11/regina-adams-1952-widow-performer.html#.Xw92lihKi01

http://beyondbourbonst.com/fire-at-the-up-stairs-lounge-episode-66/

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0:00.0	How do you do? Jen and Kam feel it would be unkind to present this program without a friendly word of warning.
0:07.0	We are about to unfold our true crime podcast, a podcast of lifelong friends who seek to examine crimes which were committed
0:16.7	without reckoning upon God. The discussion will be frank and the subject matter will be of a grim and violent nature.
0:25.1	I think it will thrill you.
0:26.9	It might even horrify you.
0:29.4	So if there are young children listening, or if you feel unwilling to subject your nerves to such
0:34.8	a strain, now is your chance to.
0:37.0	Well, we've warned you. I'm going to. Hey, Kim, how are you?
0:53.0	I'm, you know, good question. Yeah, how are you? Right? I'm doing great. I finally finished this episode by the skin of my teeth and it's kind of a long one and I
1:17.6	thought I cut it down as much as possible but I don't think I did it enough
1:21.6	but anyway I think we should probably delve in so we don't like lose people.
1:26.4	I got you I got you. Yeah I can't wait you ready. All right. Let's go. Let's go
1:30.8	I'm ready. Philisteve, a new Orleans,
1:39.0	Philisteve, a New Orleans resident, was 39 years old in 1970.
1:44.0	He was looking to invest $15,000 of inheritance his mother had left him.
1:49.0	He was deciding on possibly opening a gift shop in the French quarter and he was talking to a
1:54.7	friend one night at a bar and his friend commented well if someone has a
1:59.8	dollar they will buy a drink before they buy a gift.
2:04.0	So then and there, Phil decided that he was going to open a bar.
2:08.6	Not just a regular bar.
2:10.1	He was going to open a gay bar. But just not any gay bar.
2:14.0	He wanted the gay bar,
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