Tinderbox : the untold story of the Up Stairs Lounge fire and the rise of gay liberation
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Gay people > Violence against > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century. Mass murder > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century. Gay bars > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century. Arson > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century. Homophobia > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century. Gay liberation movement > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century. |
- ISBN: 9781631495953
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343 pages ; 21 cm - Edition First edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2019.
- Copyright ©2018.
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Tinderbox : The Untold Story of the up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
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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 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.