Title:
Tinderbox : the untold story of the Up Stairs Lounge fire and the rise of gay liberation / Robert W. Fieseler.
ISBN:
9781631491641
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2018]
Physical Description:
xxxviii, 343 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Awards Note:
Honor book for Stonewall Book Award (Nonfiction / 2019)
Contents:
Introduction: History reclaimed -- Act I: Fire -- Brotherhood of men -- Sunday service -- Gay liberation -- United we stand -- Act II: Fallout -- Mayhem -- Call for aid -- Liberation descends -- Visions -- Fun house -- Firetraps -- In memoriam -- Act III: Legacy -- Deliverance -- Downfall -- Rally forth -- Last resort -- Coda: Second line.
Summary:
"Fieseler chronicles the ... 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 ... access to survivors and archives, Fieseler creates [a] ... portrait of a closeted, blue-collar gay world that flourished before an arsonist ignited an inferno that destroyed an entire community"--Amazon.com.
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OCLC Number:
on1005117932
Availability:
Eagan - Wescott~1
