Tinderbox : the untold story of the Up Stairs Lounge fire and the rise of gay liberation /
Fieseler, Robert W.
Tinderbox : the untold story of the Up Stairs Lounge fire and the rise of gay liberation / Robert W. Fieseler. - 1st ed. - New York : Liveright Pub. Corp., a division of W.W. Norton & Co., [2018] - xxxviii, 343 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Photographs on endpapers.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-314) and index.
Library Journal Starred, May 2018 Publisher's Weekly, April 2018 Kirkus Starred, March 2018 Booklist, May 2018
Discusses the fire that destroyed the New Orleans' subterranean gay community in 1973, focusing on the toxic prejudice that came about in the aftermath, including hate from families, the Catholic Church, and the city; which brought the emergence of an impassioned gay movement.
Adult Follett School Solutions.
9781631491641
2018004765
Gays--Violence against--History--Louisiana--New Orleans--20th century.
Mass murder--History--Louisiana--New Orleans--20th century.
Gay bars--History--Louisiana--New Orleans--20th century.
Arson--History--Louisiana--New Orleans--20th century.
Homophobia--History--Louisiana--New Orleans--20th century.
Gay liberation movement--History--Louisiana--New Orleans--20th century.
HV6250.4.H66 / F54 2018
364.152/34/09763/35
Tinderbox : the untold story of the Up Stairs Lounge fire and the rise of gay liberation / Robert W. Fieseler. - 1st ed. - New York : Liveright Pub. Corp., a division of W.W. Norton & Co., [2018] - xxxviii, 343 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Photographs on endpapers.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-314) and index.
Library Journal Starred, May 2018 Publisher's Weekly, April 2018 Kirkus Starred, March 2018 Booklist, May 2018
Discusses the fire that destroyed the New Orleans' subterranean gay community in 1973, focusing on the toxic prejudice that came about in the aftermath, including hate from families, the Catholic Church, and the city; which brought the emergence of an impassioned gay movement.
Adult Follett School Solutions.
9781631491641
2018004765
Gays--Violence against--History--Louisiana--New Orleans--20th century.
Mass murder--History--Louisiana--New Orleans--20th century.
Gay bars--History--Louisiana--New Orleans--20th century.
Arson--History--Louisiana--New Orleans--20th century.
Homophobia--History--Louisiana--New Orleans--20th century.
Gay liberation movement--History--Louisiana--New Orleans--20th century.
HV6250.4.H66 / F54 2018
364.152/34/09763/35