A review by historyofjess
A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski

informative medium-paced

3.5

I like what I've read of the ReVisioning history series that I've read so far but all of them have the same issues: 1) it's impossible to be comprehensive in such a short book, so they always move through issues very quickly and it can feel a little scattershot because of it, and 2) writing the history of marginalized groups is always going to have gaps and then add in the added factor in queer history, which has a lot of "this person was probably queer."

On the one hand, I wish there was a little bit more about trans folks in this volume, but I did generally appreciate that Bronski was, from the outset, wrapping sexuality up with living outside of gender identity/norms/roles as one big package.