Lonely Hunters

This book was both great and frustrating. It was good because I didn't know much of the what was said in there and I don't know where else you'd get this information. And the Chapel Hill chapter was simply great.

However four out of the seven chapters are about Florida, which while obviously an important state in queer history at this time, is not really typical of a southern state now or at the time. The author should have made a book just about Florida during this time. He also has a hard time stringing together any kind of cohesive narrative which makes following the stories he's telling in each chapter incredibly difficult. The final chapter jumps back and forth in time with no warning and with little theme.

While I'm glad I read it, in all fairness it's a story of Florida, with some interludes about Chapel Hill, Charleston, and DC, and is far from a history of southern life during these times.