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mesy_mark's review against another edition
informative
reflective
slow-paced
3.0
Boy is this a long volume. Covering mainly male homosexuality with the flare of bisexuality as occasion, the 20th century of USA presidents is looked through the queer eye. From president to president, we get exhaustingly detailed aspects of the administration and the climate of gays in America. This 26-hour audiobook is quite a lot to get through and did have me lulled with some boredom at points but I think that is more how political readings tend to bore me more so than the queer content. In the audiobook edition of this book, the narrator's masculine voice has an even and pleasant flow reading over the text. Overall, it was a good deep dive into the gay Washington for me though political reads can only have my interest to a point.
samagader35's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
sad
medium-paced
4.0
Cue Frodo: It is done.
This was a LONG one for me - granted the audio was very well done. Tough one to rate, but I'd say 3-4 stars depending on the section. So many of it I was like the gov't really didn't have anything BETTER to do? Other points - Reagan looking at you - DO SOMETHING MY GODS. You really run the gambit of emotions in this one.
This was a LONG one for me - granted the audio was very well done. Tough one to rate, but I'd say 3-4 stars depending on the section. So many of it I was like the gov't really didn't have anything BETTER to do? Other points - Reagan looking at you - DO SOMETHING MY GODS. You really run the gambit of emotions in this one.
finnthehuman217's review against another edition
informative
slow-paced
2.5
I never thought I would find a book that made my love of queer history seem like it was a lie. The point of the book was to deliver a nonpartisan narrative but it was heavily slanted right. And I like the way the author basically tried to humanize Reagan saying his speech writer was at fault for his not empathizing with the queer community, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE BROTHER OF HIS OTHER SPEECH WRITER DIED OF AIDS. Like that idea that the onus is on the inner circle is just fundamentally untrue. Yes, the right has a way of being fake as fuck. But he deserves his own place in hell for the things he did during his presidency. This book was such a weird way of talking about the history of the government and actively leaves out the trans community out of all the content. Not even a single mention of trans people.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Homophobia, Outing, Body shaming, and Fatphobia