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The Upstairs Lounge had served as the home of a religious denomination, the Metropolitan Community Church; however, no church would allow a prayer service for those who died, except for the pastor of St. Father Bill Richardson held a small prayer service for the fire victims on June 25,for about people, and he was severely criticized for it.

On July 1, St. This memorial was more public than.

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Stewart Butler attended the July 1st services, and he remembers that everyone was offered the option of exiting through a back door of the church in bar to avoid being potential stigma and harassment from affiliation with the memorial. No one chose this option; instead, everyone decided to face the media and present a unified front to honor those who had died in the fire.

In the decade after the fire, a museum exhibit presented the history and contributions of the New Orleans Fire Department, but the tragedy of the Upstairs Lounge, with the largest number of fire-related deaths in city history, was not included. Inafter thirty years of neglect from the larger community, a plaque dedicated to the victims was installed on the sidewalk in front of the door that led to the Upstairs Lounge.

The plaque is small and embedded in the sidewalk, so not many people notice it. Guy D. William R. Perry Lane Waters, New. Douglas Maxwell Williams. Need Help? Text The Upstairs Lounge had served as the home of a religious denomination, the Metropolitan Community Church; however, no church would allow a orleans service for those who died, except for the pastor of St.

This memorial was more public than the one at St. Courtesy of Baton Rouge Advocate. Fire,"Baton Rouge Advocate. Memorial Plaque : Inthe city of New Orleans dedicated this plaque to the memory of the shootings of the Upstairs Lounge. The inscription reads: "At this site on June 24, in the Upstairs Lounge, these thirty-two people lost their lives in the worst fire in New Orleans.

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