Tinderbox : : the untold story of the Up Stairs Lounge fire and the rise of gay liberation

Title Tinderbox : : the untold story of the Up Stairs Lounge fire and the rise of gay liberation
Names Fieseler, Robert W.
Book Number DB093950
Narrator Heitsch, Paul.
Annotation Chronicles the deliberately set fire that claimed the lives of thirty-one men and one woman at a New Orleans bar in 1973. The aftermath--including families ashamed to claim loved ones and the Catholic Church refusing proper burial rights--led to the emergence of a fledgling gay movement. Some strong language, some violence. Commercial audiobook. 2018.
Length 11 hours, 28 minutes
Title Status Active
Local Subject True Crime and Law Enforcement - CRI
Medium Length Book - MD
LGBT Interest - LGBT
History - HST
History - US - HUS
Civil Rights - CVR
Adult Nonfiction - AN
Edgar Award - AWAE
Greater than 10 hours - GR
Civil Rights - LGBTQ+ - CVLGB
LC Subject Arson - Louisiana - New Orleans - History - 20th century
Gay bars - Louisiana - New Orleans - History - 20th century
Gay liberation movement - Louisiana - New Orleans - History - 20th century
Gays - Violence against - Louisiana - New Orleans - History - 20th century
Homophobia - Louisiana - New Orleans - History - 20th century
Mass murder - Louisiana - New Orleans - History - 20th century
Nonfiction
Talking books
Downloadable books
Language English
Medium Digital Book
Released 2019
Publication Info Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 2019
Original Publication Reissue of: Unabridged. Minneapolis, MN : HighBridge, [2018] 9781684413096
Reissue of: Unabridged. Minneapolis, MN : HighBridge, 2018c 9781684413096
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