Let The Faggots Burn

Author : Johnny Townsend
Publisher : Booklocker.com
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Arson
ISBN : 1614344531

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Let the Faggots Burn by Johnny Townsend Pdf

On Gay Pride Day in 1973, someone set the entrance to a French Quarter gay bar on fire. In the terrible inferno that followed, thirty-two people lost their lives, including a third of the local congregation of the Metropolitan Community Church, their pastor burning to death halfway out a second-story window as he tried to claw his way to freedom. A mother who'd gone to the bar with her two gay sons died alongside them. A man who'd helped his friend escape first was found dead near the fire escape. Two children waited outside of a movie theater across town for a father and step-father who would never pick them up. During this era of rampant homophobia, several families refused to claim the bodies, and many churches refused to bury the dead. Author Johnny Townsend pored through old records and tracked down survivors of the fire and relatives and friends of those killed to compile this fascinating account of a forgotten moment in gay history.

Author : Robert W. Fieseler
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631491658

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

Winner • Edgar Award (Best Fact Crime) Winner • Lambda Literary's Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers Finalist • Housatonic Book Award (Nonfiction) Finalist • Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction A Stonewall Honor Book in Nonfiction (American Library Association) Best Book of the Year: Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal and Shelf Awareness An essential work of American civil rights history, Tinderbox mesmerizingly reconstructs the 1973 fire that devastated New Orleans’ subterranean gay community. Buried 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. 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 that destroyed an entire community. The aftermath was no less traumatic—families ashamed to claim loved ones, the Catholic Church refusing proper burial rights, the city impervious to the survivors’ needs—revealing a world of toxic prejudice that thrived well past Stonewall. Yet the impassioned activism that followed proved essential to the emergence of a fledgling gay movement. Tinderbox restores honor to a forgotten generation of civil-rights martyrs.

Author : Clayton Delery-Edwards
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786479535

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The Up Stairs Lounge Arson by Clayton Delery-Edwards Pdf

On June 24, 1973, a fire in a New Orleans gay bar killed 32 people. This still stands as the deadliest fire in the city's history. Though arson was suspected, and though the police identified a likely culprit, no arrest was ever made. Additionally, government and religious leaders who normally would have provided moral leadership at a time of crisis were either silent or were openly disdainful of the dead, most of whom were gay men. Based upon review of hundreds of primary and secondary sources, including contemporary news accounts, interviews with former patrons of the lounge, and the extensive documentary trail left behind by the criminal investigations, The Up Stairs Lounge Arson tells the story of who used to go to this bar, what happened on the day of the fire, what course the investigations took, why an arrest was never made, and what the lasting effects of the fire have been.

Author : Jim Downs
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465098552

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Stand by Me by Jim Downs Pdf

From a prominent young historian, the untold story of the rich variety of gay life in America in the 1970s Despite the tremendous gains of the LGBT movement in recent years, the history of gay life in this country remains poorly understood. According to conventional wisdom, gay liberation started with the Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village in 1969. The 1970s represented a moment of triumph -- both political and sexual -- before the AIDS crisis in the subsequent decade, which, in the view of many, exposed the problems inherent in the so-called "gay lifestyle". In Stand by Me, the acclaimed historian Jim Downs rewrites the history of gay life in the 1970s, arguing that the decade was about much more than sex and marching in the streets. Drawing on a vast trove of untapped records at LGBT community centers in Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia, Downs tells moving, revelatory stories of gay people who stood together -- as friends, fellow believers, and colleagues -- to create a sense of community among people who felt alienated from mainstream American life. As Downs shows, gay people found one another in the Metropolitan Community Church, a nationwide gay religious group; in the pages of the Body Politic, a newspaper that encouraged its readers to think of their sexuality as a political identity; at the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookstore, the hub of gay literary life in New York City; and at theaters putting on "Gay American History," a play that brought to the surface the enduring problem of gay oppression. These and many other achievements would be largely forgotten after the arrival in the early 1980s of HIV/AIDS, which allowed critics to claim that sex was the defining feature of gay liberation. This reductive narrative set back the cause of gay rights and has shaped the identities of gay people for decades. An essential act of historical recovery, Stand by Me shines a bright light on a triumphant moment, and will transform how we think about gay life in America from the 1970s into the present day.

Author : Clayton Delery-Edwards
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476615103

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The Up Stairs Lounge Arson by Clayton Delery-Edwards Pdf

On June 24, 1973, a fire in a New Orleans gay bar killed 32 people. This still stands as the deadliest fire in the city's history. Though arson was suspected, and though the police identified a likely culprit, no arrest was ever made. Additionally, government and religious leaders who normally would have provided moral leadership at a time of crisis were either silent or were openly disdainful of the dead, most of whom were gay men. Based upon review of hundreds of primary and secondary sources, including contemporary news accounts, interviews with former patrons of the lounge, and the extensive documentary trail left behind by the criminal investigations, The Up Stairs Lounge Arson tells the story of who used to go to this bar, what happened on the day of the fire, what course the investigations took, why an arrest was never made, and what the lasting effects of the fire have been.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433003018383

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The Baltimore Underwriter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0819628638

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Aristophanes, Five Comedies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher Wordsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Christian biography
ISBN : NYPL:33433087366500

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Ecclesiastical Biography by Christopher Wordsworth Pdf

Author : Christopher WORDSWORTH
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BDM:13020100031283

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Eclesiatical biography connected with the history of religion in England by Christopher WORDSWORTH Pdf

Author : Arthur Zieger
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0819627941

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Plays of the Greek Dramatists by Arthur Zieger Pdf

Presents English translations of eleven plays by Greek dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes, including "Agamemnon," "Antigone," "The Cyclops," and "The Clouds."

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994-10-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780486282251

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Lysistrata by Aristophanes Pdf

This classic comedy — from the 5th century BC — concerns the vow of Greek women to withhold sex from their husbands until the men agree to end the disastrous wars between Athens and Sparta. An exuberant battle of the sexes with underlying anti-war theme.

Author : John Wesley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : Christian literature
ISBN : BL:A0027122491

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A Christian Library by John Wesley Pdf

Author : Alfred Biese
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734095382

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The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese

Author : Larry Kramer
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802136915

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Faggots by Larry Kramer Pdf

Thirty-nine-year-old Fred Lemish had always hoped that love would find him by the age of forty, and with four days to go, he begins a compulsive, yet humorous, search for that love and commitment, in a classic novel of gay life. Reprint.

Author : Sir Thomas Dick-Lauder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015063923281

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The Wolfe of Badenoch by Sir Thomas Dick-Lauder Pdf