This isn't the kind of book you "read." I mean, sure you read it but not like you rad a novel or a history, and this IS sort of a history--the history of the struggle for gay rights from the perspective of a lesbian photographer who also knows how to write prose. Her personal history, included almost as "extra" in this book of photographs, is beautifully told and sometimes even more compelling than the pictures which are hard to see outside their historic context. I also suffer fro being old enough to have lived through the decade and thus am burdened with distracting nostalhia.