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On entering the first of the chambers, to which these doors lead, you will see a large chest, standing in the middle of the floor, and upon it a dog12 seated, with a pair of eyes as large as teacups.13 But you need not be at all afraid of him I will give you my blue checked apron, which you must spread upon the floor, and then boldly seize hold of the dog, and place him upon it. “Get money,” she replied “for you must know that when you reach the ground under the tree, you will find yourself in a large hall, lighted up by three hundred lamps 10 you will then see three doors,11 which can be easily opened, for the keys are in all the locks. “But what am I to do,9 down there in the tree?” asked the soldier. I will tie a rope round your body, so that I can pull you up again when you call out to me.” “Well, it is quite hollow inside, and you must climb to the top, when you will see a hole,8 through which you can let yourself down into the tree to a great depth. “Do you see that large tree,”7 said the witch, pointing to a tree which stood beside them. “Thank you, old witch,” said the soldier. Her under-lip hung quite down on her breast, and she stopped and said, “Good evening, soldier you have a very fine sword, and a large knapsack, and you are a real soldier 6 so you shall have as much money as ever you like.” Website: Johnmarszalek3.A SOLDIER2 came marching along the high road:3 “Left, right-left, right.” He had his knapsack on his back, and a sword at his side he had been to the wars,4 and was now returning home.Īs he walked on, he met a very frightful-looking old witch5 in the road. He is clinical faculty of the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program at Southern New Hampshire University. John Marszalek III is author of Coming Out of the Magnolia Closet: Same-Sex Couples in Mississippi (2020, University Press of Mississippi). His blog, "Parenthetically Speaking," about the food and culture of Louisiana and his life as a New Yorker, can be found at. Morris Ardoin is the author of Stone Motel - Memoirs of a Cajun Boy, published in April 2020 by the University Press of Mississippi. Born and raised in Chicago, Fieseler now lives with his husband and dog in New Orleans. Queer literary icon Andrew Holleran reviewed Tinderbox 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" and the acclaimed debut author of Tinderbox- winner of the Edgar Award and the Louisiana Literary Award, shortlisted for the Saroyan International Prize for Writing. 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.
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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.
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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. An essential work of American civil rights history, Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation (Liveright, 2018) mesmerizingly reconstructs the 1973 fire that devastated New Orleans’ subterranean gay community.