most didn't even bother to learn the name roger dell nÚÑez, who was in violation of probation the nighte drunkenly entered, provoke a fight and have jaw broken and dragged on front stair, screaming, i'm going burn you all out. right that was 30 minutes before the fire began. so the deadliest fire on record in new orleans history, the worst mass murder of homosexuals, record to withstand pulse worth more to the city than days of front page headlines and proverbial headline, let's be real. no one wanted to talk about the deadliest event to strike new orleans in 1973 even six months later and this seems fitting to the average citizen working hard to make this event and its legacy and trauma of this event, pressure cooker event to disappear for years, it was too confusing, too sad, it was too gruesome into the aids crisis of 1980 when more upstairs lounge survivors and witnesses would die before they could tell stories, no public memorials would mark the anniversary of this event in that decade, then in 1995 the 22nd anniversary, gay minister named dexter made controversial choice, dexter w