Jake Shears is helping a once lost piece of LGBTQ history reach a wider audience, with the Scissor Sisters singer boarding Tinderbox as a producer.
The film tells the story of the 1973 Up Stairs Lounge fire, which was the worst mass murder of LGBTQ people in America until the Pulse Nightclub shooting in 2016. Author Robert Fieseler brought attention to the tragedy in his 2018 book, Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation.
In addition to producing, Shears will lend music from his albums Jake Shears and B-Sides.
The project has had Hollywood interest for years and is now getting off the ground under filmmakers Colby Holt and Sam Probst, who will write and direct. The duo previously helmed the indie horror movie Ganymede, about a wrestler who develops a crush on his openly gay classmate.
Colby Holt and Sam Probst
