Bodies in the street were being covered with towels, bloody men with terrifying screams were rolled to ambulances and people tried to force their way out of windows at the gay nightclub, which was ...

The late journalist and New Orleans resident Roy Reed, who passed away in 2017, is perhaps best known for his enterprising Civil Rights-era coverage in The New York Times, including a March 1965 ...

Since then, the event has been memorialized in at least two other books (Johnny Townsend's Let the Faggots Burn and Clayton Delery's The Up Stairs Lounge Arson), two documentaries (The Up Stairs ...

THE smell of burning flesh filled the nostrils of people on the street watching the Up Stairs Lounge nightclub burn. It’s the attack on the gay community we forgot. Bodies in the street were being ...

Earlier this month, Mayor LaToya Cantrell hoisted a rainbow flag at the entrance to New Orleans City Hall, where it would hang next to the city, state and American flags throughout Pride Month. A ...