Robert Fieseler

Targeted Censorship and the Importance of Truth in the U.S.! YouTube video by Ivory Tower Boiler Room

Great time dishing historical queerness on Ivory Tower Boiler Room podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=FucC...

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Proud to be collabing with PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social March 7! #booksky

And now your Sunday morning message from Mo the Cat Lady, the authentic New Orleans eccentric

LGBTQ History Discussion with Robert Fieseler | Pride in Progress YouTube video by GENVAS

2025 will be remembered as the year of widespread erasure for queer programming, and so it was a supreme honor to travel to Broward County, Florida last September to share my book AMERICAN SCARE as part of the festival Pride in Progress. This is the talk I gave www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsOs...

Special news. American Scare has been named an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book in Nonfiction for 2026.

By George, A Life - Trailer YouTube video by By George, A Life

I’ve been working on several secret projects, and a big one is nearing its premiere. For the past 5 years, I’ve been working as co-directer on a feature-length documentary called By George: A Life. It’s about a Holocaust liberator who became a Civil Rights activist. Trailer: youtu.be/I5mUMQvYV2g

Decades Before DeSantis, Charley Johns Led Florida’s First War on Queer Lives — And Fell YouTube video by Queer News Tonight

Thank you Queer News Tonight for all the love and featuring my work youtu.be/MQLhEIBYtsM?...

Sunset, windswept, Mallory Square, Key West.

It ain’t a Key West pitstop until you’ve tried to pet a rooster or had the pork at El Siboney! Here for a reading at Key West Library

Throwaway Boy “I’ve decided to tell you all the bad side of my life first. And then after I tell you all my bad side, I’ll tell what I remember of the good. Because, with everybody’s life, there’s a little good.

Story here: www.southerncultures.org/article/thro...

How cool! Folks at the journal Southern Cultures named my story “Throwaway Boy,” about an HIV-positive New Orleans street kid who confronted outgoing President Ronald Reagan at the 1988 Republican National Convention, one of their “favorite reads from 2025.”

And now your Thursday morning message from Mo the Cat Lady, the authentic New Orleans eccentric

Now reading @wordbobby.bsky.social's deeply researched AMERICAN SCARE (2025).

Speaker Series: Robert W. Fieseler Robert W. Fieseler will speak about his book, American Scare: Florida’s Hidden Cold War on Black and Queer Lives, a history of how Black activists and gay teachers were targeted by a legislative in…

Looking forward to my first queer event of 2026. See you in Key West on MLK Day, Jan 19 friendsofthekeywestlibrary.org/event/speake...

King of Olympus - 64 Parishes Patrick "Skip" Kibodeaux was New Orleans's first public PWA (Person With AIDS), and an activist for gay rights in the 1980s.

Story here: 64parishes.org/king-of-olym...

Well, this is incredible. My story “King of Olympus,” about a forgotten New Orleans AIDS activist whose name is framed in pink triangles on the AIDS Quilt, is a GLAAD Media Award nominee!

Robert W. Fieseler, Author of American Scare — Writer's Bone Author and journalist Robert W. Fieseler returns to the show and chats with Daniel Ford about his latest book American Scare: Florida's Hidden Cold War on Black and Queer Lives.

Best of 2025: @wordbobby.bsky.social

Honored! What a great conversation

Stop, STOP it with the compliments 😏! Gay men don’t like attention #booksky

And now your Saturday message from Mo the Cat Lady, the authentic New Orleans eccentric. Tis (very much) the Season.

Long before Ron DeSantis, Charley Johns terrorized queer Floridians. We can learn from his downfall. - LGBTQ Nation "There's power in being part of the opposition, being part of the resistance."

Still glowing from these words from the LGBTQ Nation write-up: “With the publication of American Scare, Fieseler, who lives in New Orleans with his partner, Ryan, has joined the ranks of the nation’s top investigative reporters.” I mean, dayum! #booksky www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/long...

Long before Ron DeSantis, Charley Johns terrorized queer Floridians. We can learn from his downfall. - LGBTQ Nation "There's power in being part of the opposition, being part of the resistance."

A little interview of mine just hit on the homepage of LGBTQNation. The first line bowled me over: “No one can accuse Robert W. Fieseler of taking the easy road.” My pops would be proud www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/long...

Long before Ron DeSantis, Charley Johns terrorized queer Floridians. We can learn from his downfall. - buff.ly/9tpgGgR

Long before Ron DeSantis, Charley Johns terrorized queer Floridians. We can learn from his downfall. - buff.ly/Ez9YLSq

Or for *a* collapsing time

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Y’all my friends at Narratively just gave AMERICAN SCARE, and the beautiful except they published last week, a celebratory shoutout in a mega-email blast, and I am so darn grateful.

Thank you ❤️❤️

Gulp. Guys, AMERICAN SCARE was named one of Kirkus Review’s Best Books of 2025!