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This newscast is updated weekdays at 6am, 9am, noon, 3pm, and 6pm. InClayton Delery-Edwards was living just outside New Orleans in Metairie, going to high school and- as he puts it - wrestling with "the G question. But other people were already picking up on the I was, I fit a lot of stereotypes.

WWL TV had an anchor on, saying, "Police arson squads are investigating the ruins of a bar where a fire last night killed 29 persons and injured 15 others. I will say that what was done, was done intentionally. The bar, on. The bar was packed john MCC members and fires celebrating the 4th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York, extended protests against police raids in New York City gay bars.

Around 8 p. Thirty-two people burned to death. Many more were severely injured. Royd Anderson was just a baby in New Orleans when the fire happened. The only reason he did hear about the fire is because his dad was a historian, and used to take his kids on walking tours. This baffles Royd, since there gay a main suspect, Roger Nunez, a patron that night bar the bar.

He got in a fight at the bar, he got kicked out. Ten minutes later the place is on fire. He failed a lie detector test. He would get drunk a lot and make confessions to friends. He'd befriended a nun, Sister Mary Ladette.

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Roger Nunez. Roger Nunez committed suicide one year after the fire. The case permanently closed. Royd made it his mission for people to talk about it, and keep talking about it. That prompted his self-made documentary released in 3. That same year, historian Jim Downs was also thinking about how to get the UpStairs Lounge tragedy on.

Forty-nine people were shot and killed at The Pulse in Orlando, a popular gay club. It took days to identify the UpStairs Lounge victims. Not only were they so badly burned, but many had fake IDs to protect themselves from being outed as gay.