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Author Fieseler, Robert W., author.

Title Tinderbox : the untold story of the Up Stairs Lounge fire and the rise of gay liberation / Robert W. Fieseler.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1855133~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  364.1523409 FIE    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  364.1523409 FIE    AVAILABLE
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Description xxxviii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-314) and index.
Summary 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.
Subject Gays -- 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 9781631491641 (hardcover)
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