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Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W. Fieseler
3 reviews
paperd's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
sad
tense
slow-paced
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Homophobia
Minor: Suicide, Violence, and Outing
rachbake's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
4.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Suicide, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
laurenleigh's review
challenging
emotional
informative
sad
slow-paced
4.0
This is the second group read choice for this round of the Queer Lit Readathon, which tells the story of the UpStairs Lounge Fire in New Orleans. In 1973, this act of arson took the lives of 32 people. It’s the second deadliest attack on a gay night club, after the 2016 Pulse shooting. My biggest takeaway from this piece was how criminalized homosexuality was in the 60’s and 70’s. Being gay was considered a mental disease. You could lose your job, your home, your possessions, all through legal means. You could even be put in prison. I didn’t realize that homosexuality wasn’t decriminalized until 2003. Yes, 2003! And it was a 6-3 vote in the Supreme Court! This makes me want to scream into the void. Definitely lots of content warnings for this book, but I’m really glad I got a chance to learn this vital piece of queer history.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Racial slurs, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Gaslighting
Minor: Suicide
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