Robert W. Fieseler is a lifelong Catholic and a National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association “Journalist of the Year.” The author of Tinderbox, he lives with his husband and two kittens in New Orleans.
… man who burned to death in a working-class gay bar nearly half a century ago, I pass an … in the infamous fire at the Up Stairs Lounge gay bar on June 24, 1973, an act of arson that … attention in its day because of the anti-gay bigotry that followed, and it remains …