Arson At The UpStairs Lounge




TriPod: New Orleans At 300 show

Summary: Tripod New Orleans @300 revisits the UpStairs Lounge Fire in the wake of last month’s Orlando Pulse Night Club shooting. In 1973, Clayton Delery-Edwards was living just outside New Orleans in Metairie, going to high school and- as he puts it - wrestling with "the G question." “You know by that point I figured out what it was, and I still wasn't sure how it was done, but I knew what it was.” Clayton’s talking about being gay. “I was fifteen years old, I had been gay bashed pretty relentlessly and