"My God, we're Americans now."

by Jen GravesSkylar Fein's Remember the Upstairs Lounge. Photograph by Mike Smith/Courtesy Jonathan Ferrara Gallery
Until Orlando, the deadliest known mass murder of LGBTQ people in American history happened when an arsonist set fire to the New Orleans gay bar the Upstairs Lounge in 1973.
All 32 men inside died.
The crime was never solved. A gay man who'd been ejected from the club earlier that day was suspected, but not charged.
Worse, the incident was swept under the rug by the public, by inst