Queer Places:
UpStairs Lounge, 604 Iberville St, New Orleans, LA 70130
111 N 4th St, Baton Rouge, LA 70802
Mimosa-Pines South Cemetery Carlyss, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, USA

Luther Boggs (March 1, 1926 - June 24, 1973) was among the 32 victims of the UpStairs Lounge fire. Boggs was one who came through the window in flames after pushing his female friend through the gap, the flames put out by the owner of a neighboring bar, Gene Davis, but his injuries were too severe to survive. Boggs, a computer programmer, died within a week, after treatment for third degree burns over 50% of his body, not knowing that he had been terminated from his teaching job while fighting for life.

Luther Thomas Boggs was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the son of Allan Boggs (1893–1952) and Agnes Hilda Blanchard (1896–1976). He is buried with his mother in Mimosa-Pines South Cemetery, Carlyss, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.

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1. {{cite book|last1=Dickinson|first1=Robert Latou|last2=Beam|first2=Lura|title=A Thousand Marriages: A Medical Study of Sex Adjustment|date=1931|publisher=Greenwood Press|url=https://books.google.it/books/about/A_Thousand_Marriages.html?id=mr8ycgAACAAJ&redir_esc=y|accessdate=7 January 2018}}
2. {{cite book|last1=Beam|first1=Lura|title=A Maine Hamlet|date=2000|publisher=Tilbury House Publishers|url=https://books.google.it/books/about/A_Maine_Hamlet.html?id=KpgDAAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y|accessdate=7 January 2018}}
3. {{cite book|last=Terry|first=Jennifer|title=An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C6pGoWWLfhEC&pg=PA439|year=1999|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-79367-2|page=439}}
4. {{cite web|url=http://www.maine.gov/msl/maine/writdisplay.shtml?id=94749|title= Beam, Lura (1887–1978)|publisher=Maine State Library|accessdate=June 6, 2016}}
5. {{cite book|last1=Terry|first1=Jennifer|title=An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society|date=1999|publisher=University of Chicago Press|page=439|url=https://books.google.it/books?id=qRMJ_d-yUWYC&pg=PA439&lpg=PA439|accessdate=7 January 2018}}
6. {{cite web|title=Beam, Lura, 1887-1978. Papers of Lura Beam, 1900-1969: A Finding Aid|url=http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00218|website=Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University|accessdate=7 January 2018}}{{PD-notice}}