A review by ddillon154
Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W. Fieseler

3.0

This is a solid book, and a tragic history that continues to be unknown by too many. Fieseler tries too hard to tie the fire and the following events to a framework of queer liberation that just doesn't fit. Even his own telling of the story acknowledges that at times, before trying anyway to recover the dead as incidental martyrs for justice.