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SUMMARY:Upstairs Lounge Fire\, New Orleans\, LA (1973)
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DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, June 24\, 1973\, a group of members of the Metropo
 litan Community Church\, a pro-LGBT Protestant denomination\, had held ser
 vices inside the club\, after which the club had hosted free beer for 125 
 patrons. At the time of the evening fire\, some 60 people were listening t
 o pianist George "Bud" Matyi's music and discussing an upcoming MCC fundra
 iser for the local Crippled Children’s Hospital.\nAt 7:56pm\, Bartender 
 Buddy Rasmussen asked Luther Boggs to answer the door\, anticipating a tax
 i cab driver. Boggs opened the door to find the only staircase for regular
  entrance engulfed in flames initiated by the lighter fluid[1] (and not a 
 Molotov cocktail\, as commonly believed). Rasmussen immediately led some t
 hirty patrons out of the back exit to the roof until the group could climb
  down from another building's roof to the ground floor. Some thirty others
  were left inside the second-floor club\, and some attempted to squeeze th
 rough barred windows in order to escape. One man managed to squeeze throug
 h the 14-inch gap\, only to fall to his death while burning. Reverend Bill
  Larson of the MCC clung to the bars of one window until he died\, his cha
 rred remains being visible to onlookers for hours afterwards. MCC assistan
 t pastor George “Mitch” Mitchell managed to escape\, but then returned
  to the fire in order to attempt a rescue of his boyfriend Louis Broussard
 \; both died in the fire\, their remains having shown them clinging to eac
 h other.[2] Matyi also escaped\, but also returned to bring out more patro
 ns from the fire\; his charred remains were embracing those of two other v
 ictims under the piano.[3]\nAt least 29 people died in the 16-minute fire\
 , with three others (including Boggs) dying afterwards from their wounds. 
 15 were injured.\nAftermath\nThe official investigation failed to turn up 
 a conviction for the crime. The likely suspect who was arrested in relatio
 n to the attack was Rogder Dale Nunez.[1] When questioned\, Nunez went int
 o convulsions and was taken to Charity Hospital\, where he eventually slip
 ped out from doctor's watch and was never picked up again by police\, desp
 ite frequently appearing in the French Quarter afterwards. A friend later 
 told investigators that Nunez confessed to the deed while drunk on at leas
 t four occasions. He had told a friend\, Miss Fury\, that he squirted the 
 bottom steps with Ronsonol bought at a local Walgreens and tossed in a mat
 ch. He didn't realized the whole place would go up in flames.[1] Nunez kil
 led himself a year later. In 1970 he was diagnosed with "Conversion Hyster
 ia\," and four months before the fire he had visited a psychiatric clinic.
  His autopsy revealed a brain tumor.\n\nhttp://www.alynepustanio.com/UPSTA
 IRSLOUNGE.php\n
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