Tinderbox: the untold story of the Up Stairs Lounge fire and the rise of gay liberation
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Author:
Published:
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2018].
Format:
Book
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Desc:
xx, 343 pages : illustrations, 25 cm
Status:
Norwich/Otis Adult Nonfiction
364.15234 FIE
Description
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.
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Arson -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century.
Gay bars -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century.
Gay liberation movement -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century.
Gay people -- Violence against -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century.
Homophobia -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century.
Mass murder -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century.
Gay bars -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century.
Gay liberation movement -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century.
Gay people -- Violence against -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century.
Homophobia -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century.
Mass murder -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century.
More Details
Street Date:
1806
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781631491641
Notes
General Note
Release date: June 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Fieseler, R. W. (2018). Tinderbox: the untold story of the Up Stairs Lounge fire and the rise of gay liberation. First edition. New York, Liveright Publishing Corporation.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Fieseler, Robert W.. 2018. Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation. New York, Liveright Publishing Corporation.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Fieseler, Robert W., Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation. New York, Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2018.
MLA Citation (style guide)Fieseler, Robert W.. Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation. First edition. New York, Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2018.
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