What Sean and Vince captured was remarkable and quite moving." As an addendum to my book Tinderbox, I recently brought two renowned street photographers Vince DeSantiago and Sean Hopkins to New Orleans to document the last remaining local survivors and witnesses of the infamous fire the rest have died or been displaced. Robert wrote to us, "I was inspired by your recent photo feature on my dear friend Skylar Fein's exhibit at NOMA. The book details the lives of the people who attended the bar, the changing views about LGBTQ life at the time, and the most likely suspect of the crime in that bar in the French Quarter in New Orleans. Norton/Liveright entitled Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation. Fieseler is the author of a nonfiction book recently released by W.W. ![]() Since then, the Pulse shooting has eclipsed that. ![]() On June 24, 1973, 32 people died in what was then the largest mass murder of LGBTQ people in history. ![]() This became the site of the deadliest fire in New Orleans history. Corner of Iberville and Chartres, where the UpStairs Lounge ran as a secretive gay establishment on the building’s second floor.
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