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Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
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Veröffentlichung: |
Juli 2019
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Genre: |
Geschichte / Politik / Kultur |
ISBN: |
9781631495953 |
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9781631495953 |
Verlag: |
WW Norton & Co |
Einband: |
Kartoniert |
Sprache: |
English
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Dimensionen: |
H 142 mm / B 211 mm / D 25 mm |
Gewicht: |
400 gr |
Seiten: |
384 |
Illustration: |
16 pages of illustrations; 1 Map |
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Inhalt: |
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. Tinderbox restores honor to a forgotten generation of civil-rights martyrs.
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