UpStairs Lounge arson attack

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On June 24, 1973, an arson attack occurred at the UpStairs (or Up Stairs) Lounge, a gay bar on the 2nd floor of 604 Iberville Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. 32 people died and 15 were injured as a result of fire or smoke inhalation. The official cause is still listed as "undetermined origin". The primary suspect, a gay man with a history of psychiatric impairment named Roger Dale Nunez who had been ejected from the bar earlier in the day, was never charged and died by suicide in November 1974. Until the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting, in which 49 people were killed, the UpStairs Lounge arson attack was the deadliest attack against LGBTQ people in US history.

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