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Before Orlando: The Gay-Bar Massacre You Probably Never Heard About

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Before Orlando: The Gay-Bar Massacre You Probably Never Heard About

The Upstairs Lounge fire was the deadliest massacre of LGBT people up until the 2016 Orlando, FL, shootings. So why doesn't anyone know about it?
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