The Horror Upstairs.

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    • Subject Terms:
      METROPOLITAN Community Church
    • Subject Terms:
      LARSON, Bill; NUNEZ, Roger
    • Abstract:
      The article discusses the still-unsolved massacre of several gay people when a fire consumed the Upstairs Lounge gay bar in the French Quarter section of New Orleans, Louisiana on June 24, 1973. It states that 29 people burned alive in the bar's fire, while three other individuals died in the aftermath of the blaze. According to the article, a fireball burst into the bar after a patron answered the facility's ringing doorbell. Pastor Bill Larson of the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) was one of the victims who became trapped while trying to escape the fire. Arson suspect Roger Nunez is also mentioned.