PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewStructurally audacious ... The story of Greenwell and the Sweet Gum Head, one of 10,000 American discos opened by the decade’s midpoint, pulses with energy — more so than the sections on Smith, whose struggles with The Barb can occasionally be repetitive ... Throughout, the book is shot through with elegant digressions about songs integral to the drag scene, and the story of how disco, with the aid of \'Saturday Night Fever,\' helped mainstream queer life ... It’s a fizzy tale of civil rights, quaaludes and music ... The historical record suffers mightily because of the AIDS epidemic. People who would have lived to tell glorious tales rapidly died, and the number of survivors continues to shrink. That vast absence means that chronicles of queer life vanish before there’s a chance to document them at all. When stories such as these get told, it is a cause for celebration.
