Upstairs Lounge (Historic New Orleans Gay Bar/1970-1973) vintage horror shirt and the nightclub stage

and the nightclub stage

: 100% Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton (fiber content varies for different colors)

Operating from roughly the 1970s through the 2000s

Urkel wasn’t supposed to take over pop culture

the portrait endures as both mystery and monument: part author photo

Upstairs Lounge (Historic New Orleans Gay Bar/1970-1973) vintage horror shirt and the nightclub stageUpstairs Lounge New Orleans, LA (1970 1973) In the early 1970s, Upstairs Lounge stood on the second floor of a French Quarter building at 604 Iberville Street as one of New Orleanss few openly queer bars a gathering place, refuge, and social hub for gay, lesbian, and queer people at a time when safe spaces were rare. It was more than a bar: it was community and sanctuary in an era of pervasive discrimination. On June 24, 1973, during a crowded Sunday