Before Pulse, The Upstairs Lounge arson was the largest murder of gays in the US

Front Page Story of the UpStairs Lounge Arson (Photo: Frank Perez Facebook)

Forty-nine years ago a horrific tragedy happened in the French Quarter.

Thirty-two people, mostly gay men, perished in a fire at the Upstairs Lounge at the corner of Iberville and Chartres after a patron who had been told to leave…