TIME’S RAINBOW: Writing Ourselves Back Into American History Volume One
2July 21, 2017 by kitmoss
TIME’S RAINBOW: Writing Ourselves Back Into American History
Volume One
The First Book in
The Time’s Rainbow Series
Edited by Lori L. Lake and
Christopher Hawthorne Moss
Release Date:
Summer 2017; Kindle version available in August.
Contributors: Jess Faraday, Jon Michaelsen, Jane Cuthbertson, Judy M. Kerr, Lori L. Lake, E.J. Kindred, Sue Hardesty, Lee Lynch, Patty Schramm, Victor J. Banis, Kate McLachan, Christopher Hawthorne Moss, Nann Dunne, Ethan Stone
Our Story GLBTQ Historical Fiction 
Nice blog, Kit!!
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Just finished it and it was excellent! Here’s my official review:
The authors of Time’s Rainbow have done a lovely job with a wonderful idea: write stories to illustrate the possible lives of LGBTQ people in all eras of American history. For the most part these aren’t romances (though a few might qualify as such), just stories of certain times in the past, with lead characters who happen to be lesbian or gay, and, due to the nature of social attitudes at the time, often have to hide it, or face terrible consequences.
The time settings and characters include an accused woman in the Salem witch trials, a slave joining the Underground Railroad, a criminal in Portland in the 1880s, an FBI agent working the D.B. Cooper case in 1971, teenagers in the 1950s in New York City, and pioneers and cowboys of the Old West, among others. I loved the variety, was impressed with the quality of writing, and most of all I appreciated how the book accomplished its aim in making me think about what it would really be like to be an LGBTQ person in each of these time periods. I admire them all—the real people whose lives are represented by these fictional protagonists—for their courage and endurance, and for paving the way to our much brighter present.
I hope to see other similar volumes with more historical settings! I think this is a fabulous idea for short story projects.
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