Tinderbox - The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Liveright Publishing Corporation
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2019
Authors:	Robert W. Fieseler
Dimensions:	211 x 140 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	384
ISBN-13:	978-1-63149-595-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gay & Lesbian studies > Gay studies (Gay men) Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN:	1-63149-595-X
Barcode:	9781631495953

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