A review by beeostrowsky
Peaceful Neighbor: Discovering the Countercultural Mister Rogers by Michael Long

5.0

The author gives deep, inspiring insights into Fred Rogers and his deliberate activism for peace and justice. I didn't know, for example, that when he told Francois "Officer" Clemmons that he loved him exactly as he is but that Franc couldn't be seen at gay bars and stay on the program, the conversation happened before Stonewall, before most straight people had any idea of what life was really like for queer people. And the book doesn't absolve him of his failure to include gay people in the Neighborhood, either--but the timing was news to me.