Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W. Fieseler

1 review

rynstagram's review against another edition

4.5

Damn. This is an emotionally difficult book to read, but also a necessary one. Tragedy often precedes progress, unless it is buried. I also think it's important to note that this book was written in the context of the Pulse shooting in Orlando in 2016, which was a similar tragedy to this fire but one that the entire nation talked about instead of ignoring.

This story is rife with injustice and all sorts of tragedies. Everyone is humanized in this story, even the probable fire starter, which is not always the case in journalism. This book's review of the fire's media coverage is proof of that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Transphobia, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Outing

Moderate: Cancer, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Police brutality, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Ableism, Forced institutionalization, and Abandonment