Children of Stonewall

Gay people battle homophobes in modern-day San Francisco and ancient Sodom and Gomorrah in this debut fantasy thriller.When gay programmer Arthur Stevenson joins his co-workers at San Franciscos Tech2AI Company for a group meditation session after the 2016 presidential election he has a strange vision of a burning town which he identifies as the biblical city of Sodom. But contrary to the Genesis story in which God destroyed Sodom for deviancy Arthurs subsequent visions portray it Gomorrah and the three other cities in the plain as utopias of peace prosperity abundant leisure time and acceptance of LGBTQ lifestyles. In the visions King Chedorlaomer of the powerful hill city of Elam teams up with homophobic patriarch Abraham to try to conquer gender-nonconforming peoples. Back in modern times San Franciscos residents are captivated by accounts of Arthurs visions when a newspaper publishes them--as is John Wesley the Third the antigay leader of the fundamentalist Baptodist Church who mobilizes all his resources including a minion in President Donald Trumps White House and a spy at Tech2AI to destroy Arthur his friends and his gay-positive message. Fortunately Arthurs vision quest gives him superpowers including the ability to immobilize people which he uses against various bad guys including a terrorist and alt-right thugs. --Kirkus Reviews