Tinderbox : the untold story of the Up Stairs Lounge fire and the rise of gay liberation / Robert W. Fieseler.
Material type:![Sound](/opac-tmpl/lib/famfamfam/MU.png)
- spoken word
- audio
- audio disc
- 9781684413089
- 1684413087
- Gays -- Violence against -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
- Mass murder -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
- Gay bars -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
- Arson -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
- Homophobia -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
- Gay liberation movement -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Audiobook | 364.1523 F467 | Available | 33111009107455 |
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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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Compact discs.
Read by Paul Heitsch.
The Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. Fieseler chronicles the tragic event that claimed the lives of 31 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.