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(More customer reviews)I am a gay teen, and when I first picked up this fascinating book I was in the library, searching for a missplaced encyclopedia. I picked it up (gingerly enough, there was a rather abrasive looking...person...nearby), and thumbed through it. I came upon images of physicue magazines from the forties, pride parades, AIDS awareness, sepia toned photos of 19th century couples. It was strangely inviting, it's blinding pink cover I mean (it's even worse in person, like BLIN-DING!). Taking it home and reading it with my Mom was a strange experience. I kept the book overdue for seven months, it had become such a part of me. Recently I ordered a used copy off of here (they are fantasticly new-looking), I just got it yesterday. If you are interested in a broad, ecclectic, and less plitically centered piece on gay history (after Stonewall), this is a great book. It's "no sides" approach on issues is a change of pace from radical and pointless ramblings in scattered encyclopedias. Buy it. BUY IT! BUY IT!!!!
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