The title is misleading. This book is not so much about Stonewall but about the history prior to Stonewall. I would estimate the stonewall takes up the last 25% of the book. There is missing history in this book that I read about from other, better books. I really just feel like the author hated the people involved. Stonewall was definitely a secondary or tertiary part of this book, he probably should've named it something else.

Massive Trigger warnings for just about everything sexual abuse, child abuse, emotional abuse, violence on and on. I really wanted to read about Stonewall, I wish I'd picked another book.

So far this book goes into the collective stories of the early childhoods of people in the LGBTQ+ community who grew up before and during stonewall. Their stories mention growing up different and how often these people were oppressed, beaten, and abused (emotionally and physically) growing up. Though these are mentioned, the book in the beginning does respond to these trauma's and make these instances of rape, molestation, and abuse to youth from adults seem like the norm for this community. I DO NOT like how this can make it seem that there is a causation of being gay and exploring that after being SA'ed. 

As you progress into the book, it explores more of coming of age as a person who physically know but doesn't always emotionally understand their sexuality. It explores secrecy as an adult and being closeted or open with people from different classes of life. It also explores the acts of how we conducted relations within the gay community pre-stonewall and civil rights. This book also discusses political ideologies of how to overcome the stigma and homophobia of the time through the perspective groups and collectives of the day. It also briefly discusses the intersectional struggles within the LGBTQIA+ population when you were not a white cis gendered man.