tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33855769.post1852700031685987345..comments2024-03-27T17:40:18.022-07:00Comments on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters: Know Your LGBT History - Soap and Billy CrystalBlackTsunamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02349560427762283170noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33855769.post-29520940945887796942013-06-23T18:41:10.215-07:002013-06-23T18:41:10.215-07:00Jim. If you look at the long list, it is narrowly ...Jim. If you look at the long list, it is narrowly geared to media and entertainment events in our history. Something I think is overlooked as well.<br /><br />Many of us look forward to this post every week (and were somewhat devastated when Alvin said not long ago that he was considering dropping it).<br /><br />The Upstairs Lounge tragedy is something that is and has been covered on many sites, and I agree not enough. For more history in that vein I'd suggest a site like Box Turtle, which does a chronology of history every day.<br /><br />Garynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33855769.post-4053552429957987662013-06-22T04:38:12.760-07:002013-06-22T04:38:12.760-07:00Maybe I missed it on your long list -- but you see...Maybe I missed it on your long list -- but you seem to have missed America's largest unsolved mass murder -- 32 gay men burned to death on June 24th, 1973 in New Orleans' Upstairs Lounge, which doubled as an MCC Church the day it was torched. I know a few of the survivors, all in their 70s and 80s now.<br /><br />No investigation was done -- one news report was given -- one pastor came to console the survivors, and he was chastised by his bishop. There's a tiny plaque, size of a desert plate, from the 1990s. Only six or seven websites seem to have an article about it. <br /><br />Of the 32 gay men, 7 were claimed by their families, the rest buried in a potters field where there's not even a stone --- and several guys were never even identified. <br /><br />No one gave a damn; seems no one gives a damn today, either. <br />Seems not to be much known in the LGBT community, either.<br /><br />and now the Supremes are going to hand down their decisions on us on the 40th Anniversary.<br /><br />But if you're going to do a history wrap of of gay events - surely this one should make the cut. <br /><br />After all, as I say: it is America's largest unsolved mass murder.Jim Hlavachttp://www.thedailymush.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com