A really solid collection. One of the real joys of this is that if you don't feel like you can commit to read the whole books from many of these authors, you can just read these essays and get a pretty good sense of at least some of the major points from their work, which is fun and easy if you're busy and on the go. It's also just good to return to these earlier community works and see just how different each one is, to draw out a larger picture of what gay history in the US has looked like over time.

I think my favorite chapter, for personal reasons, is the Flint chapter, though of course many are very good and interesting. There's just a lot in here for folks to explore, so I definitely recommend it from that perspective! I think also it could be very, very good for use in a classroom, again if you don't want to assign the whole books from many of the contributors. ( )