I think it would have helped to read All Boys Aren't Blue before picking up this one as that books is reference quite a few times.
Upon finishing this book I did think about what I learned in school as a child. None of these people were ever mentioned. I thought about how all the books I read for my Language Arts courses were written by white men. I think it is important to add in stories and histories of Black and queer communities.
I did want more from this book though. Less about the author and more about the people of the Harlem Renaissance.