“An important work of memory…finally giving the account its rightful place in America's national story.” - Los Angeles Timesīooks & Anthologies Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation “This was a book which reaffirmed and renewed in my own heart the quest, the yearning for dignity and justice in my homeland.” - Walter Holland, LAMBDA Literary “Loving, sensitive, and diligent.” - The New York Times “Fieseler unflinchingly recounts the fire and sets it firmly in the context of the times.” - Chicago Tribune
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. In revelatory detail, 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. Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement.
Fieseler's Tinderbox mesmerizingly reconstructs the 1973 fire that devastated New Orleans’ subterranean gay community. An essential work of American civil rights history… Winner of the Edgar Award and Louisiana Literary Award, shortlisted for the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, Robert W.
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