Sukupuoli: male
Kansalaisuus: USA
Asuinpaikat: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Lyhyt elämäkerta: Clayton Delery is a retired faculty member of The Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts. His book, The Up Stairs Lounge Arson, was named Book of the Year by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities in 2015. His new book, Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice, tells the story of an anti-gay hate crime that took place in New Orleans in 1958. In addition, Delery is a contributor to collections such as My Gay New Orleans (Frank Perez and Jeffrey Palmquist, editors), and Fashionably Late: Gay, Bi, and Trans Men who Came Out Later in Life (Vinnie Kinsella, editor). He is also the editor of The Witlings, a play written in the eighteenth century by Frances Burney. Clayton Delery lives in New Orleans, where he is currently working on a book which does not involve autopsies or homicide.

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The Up Stairs Lounge Arson: Thirty-Two Deaths in a… Tekijä: Clayton Delery-Edwards

This concise, well-written, and meticulously researched volume focuses on a little-known but significant event in the queer history of the US.

Delery-Edwards carefully reconstructs the narrative of the fire that consumed the Up Stairs Lounge, a small but popular gay bar in New Orleans in the early 1970s. He tells the story of the owners, employees, and patrons who frequented the bar and succeeds in humanizing a tragedy that was in danger of becoming an historical footnote.

Furthermore, Delery-Edwards examines the facts with fresh eyes and questions the surviving records of the arson. Although the case remains officially unsolved, Delery-Edwards makes a strong argument for the guilt of the most likely suspect. Perhaps most importantly, he situates this awful tragedy within the cultural and political context of its time, offering astute and persuasive analysis of the local response to the fire and the seeming official indifference to the massive loss of life. He even manages to find some hope in the aftermath of the fire, showing how it served to galvanize the LGBTQ community in New Orleans.

This book should find a place on the reading list of anyone interested in the queer history of America.… (lisätietoja)

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