How Long to Read Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation

How Long Does it Take to Read Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 30 minutes to read Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W. Fieseler

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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.

How long is Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation?

Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W. Fieseler is 384 pages long, and a total of 97,536 words.

This makes it 130% the length of the average book. It also has 119% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 52 minutes to read Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation aloud.

What Reading Level is Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation?

Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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