

An edition of Tinderbox (2018)
The Untold Story of the up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
By Robert W. Fieseler
Publish Date
2019
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Language
eng
Pages
364
Description:
"Fieseler chronicles the ... 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 ... access to survivors and archives, Fieseler creates [a] ... portrait of a closeted, blue-collar gay world that flourished before an arsonist ignited an inferno that destroyed an entire community"--Amazon.com.
subjects: Violence against, Arson, Gay liberation movement, Gays, Gay bars, Homophobia, Mass murder, History, New orleans (la.), social conditions, LGBTQ history, Stonewall Book Awards, collection:randy_shilts_award=finalist, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LGBTQ true crime
Places: New Orleans, Louisiana
Times: 20th century