Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Fieseler, Robert W.

Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation

Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of...
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Author: Robert W. Fieseler
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Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Fieseler, Robert W.

Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation

$63.33

Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation

$63.33
Author: Robert W. Fieseler
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, Robert W. Fieseler chronicles the tragic event that claimed the lives of thirty-one men and one woman on June 24, 1973, at a New Orleans bar, the largest mass murder of gays until 2016. Relying on unprecedented access to survivors and archives, Fieseler creates an indelible portrait of a closeted, blue- collar gay world that flourished before an arsonist ignited an inferno that destroyed an entire community. The aftermath was no less traumatic--families ashamed to claim loved ones, the Catholic Church refusing proper burial rights, the city impervious to the survivors' needs--revealing a world of toxic prejudice that thrived well past Stonewall. Yet the impassioned activism that followed proved essential to the emergence of a fledgling gay movement. Tinderbox restores honor to a forgotten generation of civil-rights martyrs.

Author: Robert W. Fieseler
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 06/05/2018
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9781631491641


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Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/01/2018 pg. 69
Publishers Weekly 04/16/2018
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2018 pg. 56
Library Journal 05/01/2018 pg. 78
Booklist 05/01/2018 pg. 52
Shelf Awareness 12/04/2018

About the Author
Fieseler, Robert W.: - Robert W. Fieseler is a recipient of the Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship and the Lynton Fellowship in Book Writing. A writer for Buzzfeed, Narratively, and elsewhere, he currently resides in New Orleans.

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