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020    9781631491641 (hardcover) 
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100 1  Fieseler, Robert W.,|eauthor. 
245 10 Tinderbox :|bthe untold story of the Up Stairs Lounge fire
       and the rise of gay liberation /|cRobert W. Fieseler. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bLiveright Publishing Corporation, a division 
       of W.W. Norton & Company,|c[2018] 
300    xxxviii, 342 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-314) and 
       index. 
520    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.  
650  0 Gays|xViolence against|zLouisiana|zNew Orleans|xHistory
       |y20th century. 
650  0 Mass murder|zLouisiana|zNew Orleans|xHistory|y20th 
       century. 
650  0 Gay bars|zLouisiana|zNew Orleans|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Arson|zLouisiana|zNew Orleans|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Homophobia|zLouisiana|zNew Orleans|xHistory|y20th century.
650  0 Gay liberation movement|zLouisiana|zNew Orleans|xHistory
       |y20th century.