Whitney Strub, editor. Queer Newark: Stories of Resistance, Love, and Community . Rutgers University Press, 2024. I don’t remember exactly how my Georgia-born Nanna recalled the 1967 uprising in Newark. But her daughters—my mother and my auntie—always tell a story of sleeping in the bathtub, out of sight of windows for fear of stray bullets, and gawking at the troop-filled Humvees rolling down the streets. Meanwhile, as this quasi-military occupation was unfolding at home, the man who would become my father was already stationed in Vietnam, working in the martial courts. He returned to find a city still reeling from racial strife and beginning its decades-long decline. He went on to serve in the government of the city’s first Black mayor, Kenneth Gibson, in the planning department. Gibson’s election as the first Black leader of a big East Coast city was a historic victory, representing the hopes attached to Black electoral success in the post-civil rights era.…