Tinderbox

By Robert W. Fieseler, Paul Heitsch

Subjects: Gay liberation movement, Homophobia, collection:randy_shilts_award=finalist, Violence against, Mass murder, Gay bars, New orleans (la.), social conditions, Stonewall Book Awards, Arson, History, LGBTQ history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Gays

Description: "Fieseler chronicles the ... 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 ... access to survivors and archives, Fieseler creates [a] ... portrait of a closeted, blue-collar gay world that flourished before an arsonist ignited an inferno that destroyed an entire community"--Amazon.com.