RaveGay and Lesbian Review[A] sweeping history ... Secret City flips a light switch on, illuminating over six decades and eleven presidential administrations, from Roosevelt to Clinton. What\'s shown is an epic story with a cast of thousands--well-known and forgotten, villains and victims ... Kirchick is a good storyteller, and some of the episodes, when they are not tragic or filled with cruelty, are quite entertaining ... For a work so focused on politics and politicians, Secret City is not a polemic, even though support for gay rights has for many decades been skewed toward Democratic politics.
