No, we started it right after the 1992 presidential race. The reason it took so long was that there was a lot to do. We cover 20 years, we did like 700 interviews, the book in the end is 650 pages I think, we cut out thousands and thousands of words. So we had to, the way we approached reporting it was to cast a very wide net and do tons and tons of work so that we could figure out what it was that we wanted for the book. The answer is no.
People come and go.
There are a number of reasons for this. One is that, at the outset, the kind of people who were attracted to the gay rights movement were, by definition, a little quirky. It took a little, you know, zaniness or boldness or weirdness, all that, to declare yourself gay and get involved in gay politics in 1969. We wrote this book intending it to be a book for a mainstream audience. It is written for people who are intellectually curious, people who are interested in the culture and history of this country.