This book provides as many reasons to disagree with the author as to agree; but every point it makes is worth considering. Starting from the 40's, and running through to the present day (or as near as dammit) it dissects the gay experience in America over the last fifty years. But this is not a single issue book. It's a book about what it means to be alive, a book about embracing the truth of how-however- one is born, and working out how to live with it; and as such, it should be read by gay, straight, undecided and dead people alike.