343 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 2018
Tinderbox
the untold story of the Up Stairs Lounge fire and the rise of gay liberation
Robert W. Fieseler: Tinderbox (2018)
- ISBN:
- 978-1-63149-164-1
- OCLC Number:
- 1005117932
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"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
Places
- New Orleans
- Louisiana