Another one that took me a moment to get into, but ultimately I enjoyed it. I think Maupin is, undeniably, an incredible writer and the credit of it being a queer classic is well deserved. The characters were definitively interesting and I love the found family theme. However, the book obviously has not aged well. Racism and fatphobia, to name a few of the problems with these book, are all over the pages and I unfortunately can not see past that enough to read more.