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Jake Shears Produces ‘Tinderbox,’ Film Revisits 1973 LGBTQ Tragedy

7/10/2026

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Jake Shears joins “Tinderbox” as producer and supplies music from his “Jake Shears” and “B-Sides” albums.
The film dramatizes the 1973 Up Stairs Lounge fire, the deadliest LGBTQ mass murder before the 2016 Pulse shooting.
It adapts Robert Fieseler’s 2018 book “Tinderbox”.
Colby Holt and Sam Probst write and direct while Cory Thompson produces via Rewind Artists, which also represents the directors.

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Story summary

Jake Shears joins “Tinderbox” as producer and supplies music from his “Jake Shears” and “B-Sides” albums.
The film dramatizes the 1973 Up Stairs Lounge fire, the deadliest LGBTQ mass murder before the 2016 Pulse shooting.
It adapts Robert Fieseler’s 2018 book “Tinderbox”.
Colby Holt and Sam Probst write and direct while Cory Thompson produces via Rewind Artists, which also represents the directors.