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It was really nice to hear all of these letters. I was in love with the documentary so I knew I was going to love the book. It was so amazing!! I love history and since the 1950s marked the precursor to the start of the gay liberation movement, it was so fun to hear the words of so many iconic queens!!!!

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3.0

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This was both wonderful and sad to read: the first because it celebrates the lives and struggles of the pre-Stonewall generation of drag queens; the latter because of the inevitable history of prejudice, oppression and trauma.

Olsen intersperses the letters written by a group of sisters to each other in the '50s with modern testimony from those he was able to find and interview, and with examples of similarities and differences of his own experiences of growing up post-Stonewall.

Olsen's finding of Daphne, now an elderly man who had left his drag identity behind, and his opening up to a listener who was eager to hear the stories of his youth and the found family who mutually supported each other, was really moving. 5🏳️‍🌈

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hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.25

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emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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