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1 online resource (1 audio file (11hr., 26 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Paul Heitsch. |
| 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. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Gays -- Violence against -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century.
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Mass murder -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century.
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Gay bars -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century.
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Arson -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century.
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Homophobia -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century.
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Gay liberation movement -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Heitsch, Paul, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781684413096 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1684413095 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12152335 |
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