PositiveThe New York Times Book Review... lively, encyclopedic ... serves as a 900-page case study of what the sociologist Tina Fetner refers to as the \'symbiotic\' relationship between conservatives and queer activists. The religious right told us we couldn’t have marriage, so we decided we needed it ... Issenberg doesn’t shy away from examining the role of race in electoral politics, but we don’t learn why, exactly, queer Black activists were such a rarity in the upper echelons of the marriage fight ... In the era of de-Trumpification, the L.G.B.T.Q. community has the opportunity to consider what it can and must accomplish now that marriage equality has granted tax and social privileges only to those able and willing to join that institution. Meanwhile, Issenberg leaves us with a valuable lesson: We must pick our battles wisely, for they dictate not just our rights, but also the limits of our political imagination.
