![]() In addition to her academic work, Kristen has published essays in The Washington Post, and The Good Mother Myth. He lives with his husband and dog (a senior Cairn Terrier named Chompers) in New Orleans.Ī philosophy professor in the Humanities Department at Columbus State Community College, Kristen Oganowski is a feminist scholar whose research interests include issues related to autonomy, moral psychology and ethics. While not a fast-moving book, The Tinderbox deals with some of the strongest human emotions possible: intense human love, lust, (very tastefully dealt with). ![]() Queer literary icon Andrew Holleran reviewed the book as "far more than just a history of gay rights," and Michael Cunningham praised it as "essential reading at any time." Fieseler graduated co-valedictorian from the Columbia Journalism School and is a recipient of the Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship. ![]() Fieseler is the 2019 National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association "Journalist of the Year" for his acclaimed Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation, also winner of the Edgar Award in Best Fact Crime. Tinderbox restores honor to a forgotten generation of civil-rights martyrs. Yet the impassioned activism that followed proved essential to the emergence of a fledgling gay movement. 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. 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. 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. Columbus Bar Association is Gramercy’s Community Partner for this program.īuried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. His parents forced him to serve, as all good Indiran men should. Two worlds at war will bring them together. A General Admission ticket to access the event is $5 a ticket that includes a copy of Tinderbox waives the general admission fee and is $19. Iran Iran Is the Middle Easts Most Dangerous Tinderbox Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi (R) meets with Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud (L) in Tehran, Iran on June 17. 576 ratings162 reviews From the imagination of actor Lou Diamond Phillips (La Bamba, Prodigal Son) comes an epic and unforgettable Science Fiction Fantasy tale. Registration is on Eventbrite where attendees will receive login information and full instructions. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers and Tinderbox was named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal and Shelf Awareness. Fieseler was the winner of Lambda Literary's Judith A. However, readers preferring more political intrigue and great action in their romance will be willing to overlook that.Join author Robert Fieseler in conversation with feminist scholar Kristen Oganowski to learn more about Fieseler’s acclaimed book, Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation. An essential work of American civil rights history, Tinderbox reconstructs the 1973 fire that devastated New Orleans’ subterranean gay community. The scenes between Morgan and Pax are fine, but don’t really help build the relationship and feel a bit episodic. Grant’s greatest strength is her ability to write gripping suspense with a wonderfully brisk pace, but the romance can be clunky. Together they discover that the fossils are just a piece of a bigger political puzzle and that the warlord involved is desperate to get his hands on Morgan. Fortunately she’s saved by Pax Blanchard, head of a Special Forces team stationed in Djibouti. What she doesn’t know is that someone has attached a bomb to her car, planning to detonate it once she’s in the secure compound of Camp Citron, the local military base. Morgan Adler, a paleoanthropologist, knows that her discovery of a Lucy-like fossilized human will significantly change what people know about the predecessors of the human species. Set in the turbulent country of Djibouti, the first entry in Grant’s Flashpoint series works better as suspense than romance.
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