Ep. 62 Tinderbox by Robert W. Fieseler — The Stacks Book Club (Joseph Papa)

Today on The Stacks we’re discussing Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W. Fieseler. Author (Elizabeth Taylor, A Life for Passion ) and former book publicist, Joseph Papa, is our guest and he helps us break down this book. We discuss the use of the acronym LGBTQIA+, how society criminalizes human beings, and some of the most incredible ten pages of writing we’ve ever read.

There are no spoilers on this episode.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.

• Tinderbox by Robert W. Fieseler
• “The Short Stacks 13: Robert W. Fieseler//Tinderbox” (The Stacks)
• Google
• The Negro Motorist Green Book by Victor H. Green
• Bob Damron’s Address Book
• Metropolitan Community Church
• Matthew Shepard (The New York Times)
• Michael Brown

• RAICES
• Brock Turner
• The Twinkie Defense
• Anita Bryant
• When We Rise by Cleve Jones
• Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2009)
• When We Rise (ABC)
• Queer Clout by Timothy Stewart-Winter
• Tomorrow Will Be Different by Sarah McBride
• And the Band Played On by Randy Shiltz
• When Brooklyn Was Queer by Hugh Ryan
• The View Upstairs (Max Vernon)
• Green Book (Peter Farrelly, 2018)
• Brad Pitt
• Bohemian Rhapsody (Bryan Singer, 2018)
• Bryan Singer
• Manson by Jeff Guinn
• Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi

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