Browse Items (123 total)

The colorful Rev. Mike Stark, who established services for troubled youth and for gays in the French Quarter during this period, also operated the Sphinx Coffeehouse, the first office for the GLF. Obituary on second page.

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.

Robert K. Lumpkin, 29, from Mississippi.

Firemen give first aid to survivors of a French Quarter fire that swept through a second story bar leaving 29 dead and 15 injured. Several persons leaped to safety before the entire bar was engulfed in flames in New Orleans.

Solomon protests against public boat policy that bans rentals to two men.

Solomon is a candidate for delegate to Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1973.

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.

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.

Street map indicating the location of the Upstairs Lounge on the corner of Chartres and Iberville.

The August 15th edition of The Advocate includes a detailed account of events around the U.S. raising funds for the New Orleans Memorial Fund as well as the slow progress of the official investigation.

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.

Native Louisianan Clayton Delery-Edwards brings together his decades-long research into the tragedy into this new book.

by Joseph Ross

Three men who died in the fire were never identified.

Bodies burned as bar patrons tried to escape through the barred windows facing Chartres Street.

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

Logo for the Upstairs Lounge File exhibit.

A fire department snorkel was used to remove the body of man, one of 20 killed Sunday night when fire raced through the Upstairs, a French Quarter bar.

Wanda Long lists two bars for sale at 604-608 Iberville.