A review by emjay24
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States by Andrea J. Ritchie, Kay Whitlock, Joey Mogul

3.0

This was a book club selection at my office, and it took me a while to read. Part of the time, I ended up reading both this and Fairyland at the same time, so I was getting LGBT history from two different formats, which was very complimentary. I read a little bit of this every day on the way to work, which was a depressing, yet informative, start to the day. The book is very dense with cases and facts, so it doesn't flow very well at all, making it hard to read, but the information that was presented made up for the readability factor. The title of the book is self-explanatory as to what it is about, and I wasn't very shocked to read what's been going on. I live in a big city where things are more accepted, but I know that's not the case overall. Reading this just gave more concrete examples of how far we still have go go.