Last Saturday I mentioned the terrible Pulse Nightclub tragedy and said remember them with action. I want to repeat that because it is so important and today is the anniversary of that massacre. When I wrote about it back in 2016 here in this space, I said we should never forget and I wrote something on the subject for several days in a row. Any loss of life is terrible and it becomes that much worse when it is motivated by hate. Remember the forty-nine souls who perished that day because of hatred and learn some of the things you can do by going to https://honorthemwithaction.org/ too.
Sadly, this was not the only hate crime against the LGBTQ community. Another horrible attack occurred during the month of June, this one in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana way back on June 24, 1973, at a gay bar called the UpStairs Lounge. Thirty-two people died as a result of fire or smoke inhalation. The exact cause was never proven, but that does not change the fact that people died a horrible death. Not much publicity surrounding that incident either.
I listed the names here on Saturday of the victims of the Pulse massacre. I'd like you to also know the names of those who lost their lives in New Orleans. Sadly, two of them were never identified. Say their names.
Willie Inez Warren
Eddie Hosea Warren
James Curtis Warren
Luther Boggs
Rev. William R. Larson
Dr. Perry Lane Waters, Jr.
Horace “Skip” Getchell
Leon Richard Maples
George Steven Matyl
James Wall Hembrick
Larry Stratton
Joe William Balley
Clarence Joseph McCloskey, Jr.
Adam Roland Fontenot
Ferris LeBlanc
Donald Walter Dunbar
Kenneth Paul Harrington
Gerald Hoyt Gordon
John Thomas Golding, Sr.
Douglas Maxwell Williams
Robert “Bob” Lumpkin
David Stuart Gary
Guy D. Anderson
Duane George “Mitch” Mitchell
Louis Horace Broussard
Reginald Adams, Jr.
Joseph Henry Adams
Herbert Dean Cooley
Glenn Richard “Dick” Green
Larry Norman Frost
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Unidentified White Male
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