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🗓️ 5 June 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone and welcome to the stacks. I'm your host Tracy Thomas and today on the show we're talking about |
| 0:13.7 | tinderbox the untold story of the upstairs lounge fire and the rise of gay |
| 0:17.9 | liberation by Robert a feisler. We've brought back author and former book publicist Joseph Papa to help us break down this book. |
| 0:26.6 | There aren't really going to be spoilers today though if you haven't read the book and you're |
| 0:30.3 | not familiar with the upstairs lounge fire, there's going to be a lot of new information. |
| 0:34.4 | If you want more of Tinderbox without any spoiling at all, you can listen to our episode from May 20th |
| 0:39.8 | where we interview author Robert Feistler about Tinderbox. |
| 0:43.6 | As a reminder, everything we talk about on today's show can be found in the link in the show |
| 0:47.1 | notes. |
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| 1:28.4 | All right now it's time for my conversation with Joseph Papa for the Stax Book Club, we're dissecting |
| 1:35.2 | Tinderbox by Robert W Feistler. Okay, everybody, we are back today with Joseph Papa. Joseph, welcome back. |
| 1:48.0 | Thank you so much. |
| 1:49.0 | Yay! |
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