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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Fieseler, Robert W., author.     Subjects     Gay people -- 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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Fieseler, Robert W., author.       by title:      Tinderbox : the unto...         MARC Display

Tinderbox : the untold story of the Up Stairs Lounge fire and the rise of gay liberation / Robert W. Fieseler. by Fieseler, Robert W., author. New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2018] Subjects Gay people -- 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. ISBN:  9781631491641 (hardcover) : 1631491644 (hardcover) Description:  xxxviii, 343 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Introduction: History reclaimed -- Act I: Fire -- Brotherhood of men -- Sunday service -- Gay liberation -- United we stand -- Act II: Fallout -- Mayhem -- Call for aid -- Liberation descends -- Visions -- Fun house -- Firetraps -- In memoriam -- Act III: Legacy -- Deliverance -- Downfall -- Rally forth -- Last resort -- Coda: Second line. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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. Awards:  Edgar Award, 2019: Best Fact Crime.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 364.15234 Fi Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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