In this episode of Quiet Conversations…The Upstairs Lounge Arson Attack, a podcast cenered around a fire in New Orleans that killed 32 members of the LGBTI community and injured 14, I speak with Tree Sequoia about that night that the Stonewall riots started. Was Marsha P. Johnson the heroine everyone said she was? Who initiated the crowd in a riot?

I also go into what was happening in the world of treatments for the cure of homosexuality in New Orleans. Tulane Dr. Robert G. Heath thought so. His magic cure to turn one man from being gay into a “normal” heterosexual man was modes that were hooked into the brain creating an electrical shock effect and even hired New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison to hire a prostitute as part of the experiment.

Support the show