re: These Violent Facts About LGBT Couples Are So Real Even Biden's DOJ Forced to Admit It

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Gays have fights over 'the other guy'. When visiting a gay bar with my college roommate warned me about a pending fight.
The bartender picked up customer 'Bruce' Bruce's boyfriend jumped the bartender and a fight broke out. Bruce's boyfriend vowed to return that night.

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Another real world example is the infamous fire at the gay bar The Upstairs Lounge in the French Quarter of New Orleans in the early 1970s. Thirty-two people died gruesome deaths and at least fifteen were injured as a result of fire or smoke inhalation.

The incident has since talked about and remembered by LGBT folks, and apologies issued by the city and clergy for the response to the incident. Coverage of the fire by news outlets minimized the fact that LGBT patrons constituted the majority of the victims, while editorials and talk radio hosts made light of the event. No government officials made mention of the fire. As Robert L. Camina, writer/director of a documentary about the fire (Upstairs Inferno), said in 2013, "I was shocked at the disproportionate reaction by the city government. The city declared days of mourning for victims of other mass tragedies in the city. It shocked me that despite the magnitude of the fire, it was largely ignored.

Yet no one in the LGBT community seems to want to acknowledge that the fire was in fact, almost unquestionably caused by one of the bar's gay patrons. The only suspect in the attack was Roger Dale Nunez, who had been ejected from the bar earlier in the evening after fighting with another customer. After his arrest, Nunez escaped from psychiatric custody and was never picked up again by police, despite frequent appearances in the French Quarter. A friend later told investigators that Nunez confessed on at least four occasions to starting the fire. He told the friend he squirted the bottom steps with Ronsonol lighter fluid, bought at a local Walgreens, and tossed a match. He did not realize, he claimed, that the whole place would go up in flames. Nunez took his own life in November 1974.