Tinderbox book8/27/2023 To be honest, none of these accolades massage his existential dread or impress his husband.Īs a little boy in flat flat Chicago, Fieseler’s favorite movie was The Wizard of Oz, and he thought he lived in Kansas. He currently lives with his husband and kittens in New Orleans.įieseler graduated co-valedictorian from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and is a recipient of the Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship. He was the 2019 NLGJA (National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association) Journalist of the Year and won the Columbia Journalism School Alumni Association’s First Decade Award. Fieseler is a journalist who investigates marginalized groups and an author who excavates forgotten histories. (The Atlantic's "Roughly 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism" 2014) Taste the Action (The superhero saga of Brooklyn's weirdest burger joint) This Mass Murder Of Gay People Sparked A Movement 43 Years Before Pulse Its Legacy Still Haunts Black Gay New Orleans The UpStairs Lounge Fire Killed 32 People. Inside The Metropolitan Community Church, Which Has Been Telling LGBTQ People God Loves Them For 50 Years OPINION: HISTORY SHOWS US WHY THE FIGHT FOR LGBTQ EQUALITY IS FAR FROM OVERĪBC News / Good Morning America, J(winner of 2021 NLGJA Excellence in Opinion/Editorial Writing Award) OPINION: Roy Reed was first to report the truth of the Up Stairs lounge (Finalist, nonfiction 41st New Millennium Literary Awards)Ħ4 Parishes, Decem(Winner of 2022 Green Eyeshade Award Best of Division: Magazine winner of 2021 Sigma Delta Chi Award in Magazine Writing) (nominated for the Pushcart Prize) One Hostage in Play My Gay New Orleans Anthology, July 1, 2016 Markowitz Award for Emerging Writers winner of 2019 NLGJA Excellence in Book Writing Award winner of 2019 Nautilus Book Award (Silver) in Journalism & Investigative Reporting finalist for 2019 Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction finalist for 2019 Housatonic Book Award in Nonfiction 2019 American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book and Over the Rainbow selection Best Book of 2018 Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal and Shelf Awareness Notable Selection, Best True Crime of the Decade CrimeReads Best Book by Emerging Writers Book Riot) (Winner of 2021 Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award, Winner of 2020 Louisiana Literary Award winner of 2020 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award in Nonfiction Prose shortlisted for 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing winner of 2019 Edgar Award in Best Fact Crime winner of 2019 Lambda Literary Judith A. “An important work of memory…finally giving the account its rightful place in America's national story.” - Los Angeles Timesīooks & Anthologies Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation “This was a book which reaffirmed and renewed in my own heart the quest, the yearning for dignity and justice in my homeland.” - Walter Holland, LAMBDA Literary “Loving, sensitive, and diligent.” - The New York Times “Fieseler unflinchingly recounts the fire and sets it firmly in the context of the times.” - Chicago Tribune Relying 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. In revelatory detail, 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. Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. Fieseler's Tinderbox mesmerizingly reconstructs the 1973 fire that devastated New Orleans’ subterranean gay community. An essential work of American civil rights history… Winner of the Edgar Award and Louisiana Literary Award, shortlisted for the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, Robert W.
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