I needed to read this work.  I needed to find out what actually happened back in 69.  Let me explain: My 8th birthday was supposed to be at Shea Stadium  up in Queens.  After Stonewall my parents cancelled the ball game and we had a pool party.  I didn't understand then but I heard mom and dad talking about those riots in N.Y..  also how those "gay people" had stared it.  How they didn't want the potential of the riots moving to Queens getting them involved with a Station Wagon full of eight/nine year olds.  

 OK today my mother actually supports the LGBTQ community but only after education from both my daughters  and me.  My father, less said the better.  I

I now understand what the LGBTQ pathfinders had to deal with.  Many of their dealings got caught up in the Anti Vietnam Movement, or Panthers.  Because of this, a chunk of this work is how the early LGQTB groups interacted and supported or chose not to support, the other anti - establishment groups.  This was also enlightening since those movements were the political and social backdrop to my formative years.  Yea, if you want a well documented work that will throw light on the early LGQTB struggle for acceptance.  A struggle that today is even more threatened by the religious RT than even back in 68/69.  But, if you were in Elementary back then this is also a good primer on the debates that were going on and the back round of those dinner conversations that you heard around the dinner table.