SOURCE: Time Magazine
7-1-13
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7-1-13
Jim Downs (with Elizabeth Dias): The Horror Upstairs
Roundup: Historians' Taketags: gay history, Time Magazine, Jim Downs, Elizabeth Dias
Jim Downs teaches history at Connecticut College.
Francis Dufrene lived for Sunday nights. tall and lean with a pile of blond hair, the 21-year-old would take two buses from his home in the New Orleans suburbs to make it to the Upstairs Lounge by 5 p.m., when the French Quarter bar held its weekly beer bust--two hours of all-you-can-drink drafts for $1.
From the outside, the Upstairs didn't look much different from the other gay bars on a particularly seedy stretch of Iberville Street. But up 13 steps on the second floor was a refuge....
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