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Reginald Eugene Adams, Jr., MCC member, former Jesuit scholastic, partner of Ricky Soleto.

Joseph Henry Adams, 51, partner of Sid Espinache.

The official General Case Report of the New Orleans Police Department is filed on August 30, two months after the fire. The report lists the names of 28 persons who died. Joe Adams and Reginald Adams are mistakenly identified as the same person.

Memorial service program in Los Angeles and in New York plus a report on the service in San Francisco along with information about auctions there being organized to raise funds and a blood drive.

Letter from MCC San Francisco Pastor Jim Sandmire to his congregations draws the MCC connections to the New Orleans tragedy.

The Times-Picayune also produced a thoughtful account of the July 1st memorial service.

The Morning Advocate’s Eric Newhouse writes sympathetic account of the July 1st memorial service.

Interior & exterior of St. Mark’s United Methodist Church (shown in 2013). Community memorial service was held here on July 1, 1973. The Rev. Edward Kennedy was pastor at the time.

Flyer that circulates in New Orleans announcing plans for July 1 memorial service at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church.

In an open letter to the congregation, Richardson states pointedly his reasons for permitting the memorial service at St. George’s and offers to resign if opposition is too great.

Richardson writes a 1991 letter to the Voice of Integrity, newsletter of the national LGBT Episcopal group, telling the story of the June 25th memorial service and its aftermath.

Rev. Richardson, rector of St. George’s Episcopal Church, opened the doors of the church for the memorial service on the night following the fire.

A memorial service, led by the Rev. Troy Perry, was held in the sanctuary at St. George’s Episcopal Church on the night following the fire.

The story in the Bay Area Reporter about the initiation of this national memorial fund lays out, in some detail, the financial needs of persons in New Orleans, as well as the mechanics of who will oversee the fund and how it will operate.

MCC founder Troy Perry, Morris Kight of the Los Angeles Community Services Center and Morty Manford of Gay Activists Alliance New York launch national fund raising efforts to support the injured as well as the families of those who died.

Brief story in the Seattle Times addresses questions of why this tragedy occurred as well as memorial service led by Troy Perry at St. George’s Episcopal Church.

The coverage in the Boston Herald-American illustrates the sensationalizing aspects of media coverage of gays at this time.

The Oregonian picks up wire stories about the fire on the following day also. 

The wire service story about the Upstairs Lounge fire is picked up by The Oregonian, largest newspaper in the Pacific Northwest.

This archived report from the CBS Evening News is followed by an NBC news bulletin.