4.5 stars. Goodreads, puh-LEEZ add half star options.
As the blurb indicates, this is the story of an LGBTQ task force in small-town USA, and its impact on the people there. The book is a series of vignettes, each chapter from the perspective of a different character. I thoroughly enjoyed the way it was told, as it reflects the spread of the task force's influence and how it makes people reconsider. There is certainly some darkness and hard topics, depicted unflinchingly. (To write anything otherwise would be pandering, disingenuous, and unfair.) But ultimately, this is a story of redemption. Even the worst of the residents is written with a bit of sympathy, and even the most diligent of the activists has their flaws that make them human, rather than Rainbow superheroes. This book isn't perfect, but it might be necessary.