![]() WWL TV had an anchor on, saying, "Police arson squads are investigating the ruins of a bar where a fire last night killed 29 persons and injured 15 others." This is the news story Clayton watched at WWL TV: “The regular programming was preempted because there was this horrible fire in the Quarter.” People’s perceptions of Clayton quickly turned his own confusion to fear, when he saw something on the evening news. ![]() He says he was small, had a high pitched voice, “just check, check, check on the stereotypes.” But other people were already picking up on the.I was, I fit a lot of stereotypes.” “I was fifteen years old, I had been gay bashed pretty relentlessly and I didn’t even know what gay was, you know. “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.” ![]() 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." Tripod New Orleans revisits the UpStairs Lounge Fire in the wake of last month’s Orlando Pulse Night Club shooting.
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