I did the audiobook and it was honestly the best thing to have graced me this summer.

The stories in this are hard hitting, no hold back first hand accounts from a wide range of individuals that make up the lgbtqia+ spectrum. Including saved audio interviews from some of the activists themselves.

For the first time, I felt excited reading and learning about history. As the chapters progressed closer to the events of Stonewall the more anxious I became because i could feel its build up. And even the repercussions and momentum it had on the movements following were laid out so well that it makes me thirsty for more.

Me? An avid fiction only reader now clawing through the library stacks for more non-fiction first hand accounts? Yes, please. I’m going deep.

What gets me is that you just can’t make this stuff up. It happened and that’s even wilder. The further I got, the more appreciative I became to these groups in the past and the angrier I became at the injustices that still exist.

Additionally, another thing going for this anthology is the juxtaposition of seeing the different generations next to each other. You have the older, more conservative gays on one side and the younger fed up gays on the other saying Judy Garland’s death had nothing to do with them and Stonewall in contrast to what others say. Plus the trans and gender fluid few spilling tea and showing the dirty underbellies of the mainstream gay and lesbian groups that play favorites and ignore the rest.

Just read this. Listen to it. Find yourself wanting to know more.