I really enjoyed this book. I listened to it as an audiobook, and the narrator did a wonderful job. The length of the book can make it dense at times, and I found myself rewinding often as I lost track of who was who. I found the section about the lavender scare especially interesting. I'd been taught in history classes and read about the red scare and McCarthyism, but up until reading this, I'd never heard of the lavender scare nor the way both scares and fanatical devotion to McCarthy and his beliefs took hold of the United States government. My only major complaint is that the trans women who were pivotal to the events at the Stonewall inn were referred to as drag queens. If I read this again, it will be in print so I can take copious notes and possibly color code people.