The Stonewall uprising and AIDS epidemic are most frequently cited as the two most influential moments in gay American history. But as the author and journalist Charles Kaiser outlines in his award-winning book The Gay Metropolis, first released in 1997, there’s a lot more the story of the gay liberation movement. “Originally, I wrote the […]
The Damron Address Book, a Green Book for Gays, Kept a Generation of Men in the Know
The story of Bob Damron’s The Address Book begins, like so many others, with one guy and a full tank of gas cutting down the California coast. Picture him pulling out of the Castro in San Francisco, a notebook seated next to him, sun glinting off the rims of a wood-paneled station wagon. Maybe he […]