Two children waited outside of a movie theater across town for a father and step-father who would never pick them up. A man who'd helped his friend escape first was found dead near the fire escape. A mother who'd gone to the bar with her two gay sons died alongside them. In the terrible inferno that followed, thirty-two people lost their lives, including a third of the local congregation of the Metropolitan Community Church, their pastor burning to death halfway out a second-story window as he tried to claw his way to freedom. On Gay Pride Day in 1973, someone set the entrance to a French Quarter gay bar on fire. 3rd Place: Best LGBT Nonfiction - Rainbow Awards
