Until now.įieseler spoke with Eric Marcus about how he discovered the story and the surprising and disturbing avenues down which his research led him. The 1973 mass murder dragged a closeted, blue-collar gay community into the national public eye-and then the story all but disappeared. Author Robert Fieseler sets the largely overlooked tragedy of the arson that killed 32 people in its rightful historical place.
Before the Pulse Nightclub shooting in 2016, there was The Up Stairs Lounge fire.
