{"product_id":"2940170186358","title":"Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation","description":"\u003cp\u003eBuried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, Robert W. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRelying 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 that destroyed an entire community. The aftermath was no less traumaticamp;mdash;families ashamed to claim loved ones, the Catholic Church refusing proper burial rights, the city impervious to the survivors' needsamp;mdash;well past Stonewall. Yet the impassioned activism that followed proved essential to the emergence of a fledgling gay movement. \u003ci\u003eTinderbox\u003c\/i\u003e restores honor to a forgotten generation of civil-rights martyrs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HighBridge Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47115046289648,"sku":"2940170186358","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170186358_p0.jpg?v=1763704221","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170186358","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}