Capo has uncovered astonishing finds that recover the remarkable past of a city that too many people believe has no history to speak of.- The Gay & Lesbian Review, This engaging and densely researched book stretches the very idea of what queer history can be. Capo Jr.'s work is an extraordinary contribution that offers innovative ways for understanding the role of gender and sexuality in shaping the social, cultural, and urban landscape of Miami.- Black Perspectives, One of the most innovative and important recent works in LGBT history. Capo has uncovered astonishing finds that recover the remarkable past of a city that too many people believe has no history to speak of.- Gay & Lesbian Review, Demonstrates the centrality of queer and transnational analysis to understanding the 'instant city' of Miami and provides an important model for future scholarship in queer, urban, and southern histories.- Journal of Southern History, Welcome to Fairyland eschews the earlier scholarly impulse in lesbian and gay studies to produce histories of same-sex desire and community-building without grappling with how gender, race, and class inequities structured differential access to spaces of leisure and transgression where those formations might have emerged.- Los Angeles Review of Books, Grapples with important questions such as under what historical circumstances norms get shaped, bifurcated, and become hegemonic. One of the most innovative and important recent works in LGBT history.

Welcome to Fairyland by Julio Capó, Jr.