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

4.0

Not exactly a history book, at least in the method I was expecting. The book focuses on putting LGTB (written in 2011) back into the historical record, which was very active in silencing their existence. So the beginning chapters rest heavily on "this could be or might not be proof of an intimate friendship, or more" type commentary. The section on cowboys and the homosocial groupings also possibly being homosexual was the most interesting part of the early book. Because of these types of situations there is a lot of laying the groundwork on the movement of the whole (with its major major explosion with Stonewall). This being said the religious/conservative backlash sections were the most interesting parts of the later half of the book.