"A clear winner . . . this book is a model of how to do ethnography in a modern context." (Leonard Plotnicov, author of American Culture: Essays on the Familiar and Unfamiliar) "A important book." (Jewish Journal of Sociology) "Shokeid is skillful in conveying the ideological, gender-based, and religious cleavages that make the establishment of a lesbian and gay congregation a complicated endeavor." (Journal of Contemporary Ethnography)
