Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation

Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay LiberationBuried 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

historians Michael Barton and Charles Kupfer carefully assemble excerpts from the memoirs of key participants and weave them together to tell the story of the war in a single volume

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Rightful Heritage chronicles Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s essential yet undersung legacy as the founder of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and premier protector of America’s public lands