Books like The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions

I read this last summer and regret not collecting/ sharing my thoughts sooner when they were fresher....What a gem that's been polished and brought back to us! The reprinting of this is one of the strongest and best characteristics of small, radical presses: unearthing, reproducing, and distributing incredible, forgotten texts.Something that really struck me while reading The Faggots was the use of identity, specifically idealized identity. At best, it can be a casual, playful, energizing idea that gives us strength and encouragement--definitely a lot of that in The Faggots (fueled by the various revolutions still playing out in the 1970s, I imagine!) At worst though, identity can be this ideal we're forced to live up. There was some throw away line at some point about how Faggots must always fulfill the sexual needs of each other (yikes!) that points to this slippery slope of when radical ideas and behavior become prescribed. At the same time, The Faggots was filled with so many amazing observations (specific to the time it was written, and in that sense a invaluable window into the past, but also in general) and so many wonderful quotes! Like, just so many of them.Glad to see this back in print!