Format:
Book
Author:
Fieseler, Robert W., author.
Title:
Tinderbox : the untold story of the Up Stairs Lounge fire and the rise of gay liberation / Robert W. Fieseler.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2018]
©2018
Description:
xxxviii, 343 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Summary:
The Up Stairs Lounge tragedy 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 a 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. The impassioned activism that followed proved essential to the emergence of a fledgling gay liberation movement.
Subjects:
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 255-314) and index.
LCCN:
2018004765
ISBN:
9781631491641 (hardcover)
1631491644 (hardcover)
Other Number:
1005117932
System Availability:
10
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3610274
Call Number:
364.152/340976335
Course Reserves:
0
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