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BOOK REVIEW: The Up Stairs Lounge Arson

March 26, 2015

This grim but absorbing read covers the events of June 24, 1973, when a fire in a New Orleans gay bar killed 32 people. On Gay Pride Day in 1973, an arsonist set the entrance to a French Quarter gay bar on fire. In the terrible inferno that followed, 32 people lost their lives, including a third of the local congregation of the Metropolitan Community Church, their pastor burning to death halfway out a second-story window as he tried to claw his way to freedom. This is a riveting account of a forgotten moment in gay history.

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BOOK REVIEW: Camp Carnage

November 15, 2014

Every now and again a book drops into my slot with perfect timing and I got this one for Halloween. Local boy Joshua Winning and his co-author Elliot Cross have conspired on this book based in a 1980s American summer camp where gay teens are sent to be straightened out but- as is the gore-norm for summer camps and teens- there’s also a crazed killer on the loose.

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