{"product_id":"tinderbox-robert-w-fieseler-9781631495953","title":"Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation","description":"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. \u003cem\u003eTinderbox\u003c\/em\u003e restores honor to a forgotten generation of civil-rights martyrs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert W. Fieseler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 163149595X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781631495953\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liveright Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/04\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.10d","brand":"Robert W. Fieseler","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44051761496319,"sku":"9781631495953","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1c2a6919-c596-4bd6-8a67-78b0d741878a.jpg?v=1685015012","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tinderbox-robert-w-fieseler-9781631495953","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}