A review by cranea653
A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski

2.0

This just really wasn't what I expected. I was hoping to trace queer heritage throughout American history, similar to Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, but this just wasn't it. Learning queer history is important, but this felt like going over American history as we're taught in high school with the occasional "this person may have been gay but there's no way to definitively tell" thrown in. Bronski's work lacks insight, nuance, and any but the briefest mentions of any identity other than gay men or lesbians. Basically, this was just disappointing.