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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.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2018]

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Location Call No. Status
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  364.152 FIESELER, ROBERT W.    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  364.1523 FIESELER    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  364.1523 FIE    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  364.1523 FIE    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  364.152 FIESELER    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  364.1523 FIESELER    DUE 10-04-23 Billed
 Southington Library - Adult  364.1523 FIE    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xxxviii, 343 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Subject 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.
Arson. (OCoLC)fst00815158
Gay bars. (OCoLC)fst00939063
Gay liberation movement. (OCoLC)fst00939104
Gays -- Violence against. (OCoLC)fst01765496
Homophobia. (OCoLC)fst00959727
Mass murder. (OCoLC)fst01011417
Louisiana -- New Orleans. (OCoLC)fst01204311
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9781631491641 hardcover
1631491644 hardcover
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