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

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

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime
Winner of Lambda Literary's Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers
Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal and Shelf Awareness
An essential work of American civil rights history, Tinderbox mesmerizingly reconstructs the 1973 fire that devastated New Orleansâ€™ subterranean gay community.

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 traumaticâ€•families ashamed to claim loved ones, the Catholic Church refusing proper burial rights, the city impervious to the survivorsâ€™ needsâ€•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. 16 pages of illustrations; Map
Country USA
Brand LIVERIGHT
Manufacturer Liveright
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2018-06-05
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781631491641

Country	USA
Brand	LIVERIGHT
Manufacturer	Liveright
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2018-06-05
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781631491641

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

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