A fascinating survey of Hollywood's homosexual community covers all the high-profile gay talent, from Charles Laughton to Ellen DeGeneris, exploring the initial taboo and growing acceptance surrounding gay men and women in the business. Reprint. (view table of contents)

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An entertainment journalist explores the changing attitudes of Hollywood toward gay members of its community, tracing the lives and careers of some of film's most famous gays and lesbians and examining the changing social landscape of homosexuality in the film capital. 30,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

From cabarets and candlelight vigils to full-scale Broadway productions such as Angels in America and Rent, over the past 15 years public performances and dramatic texts have shaped, and been shaped by, the history of AIDS. Author David Roman examines the ways that gay men have used alternative, activist, and mainstream theater and performance to intervene in the AIDS crisis. He considers solo performance, community-based projects, mixed-media events, activist demonstrations, and AIDS educational theater initiatives.Roman shows how performance and theater have participated in the cultural politics of race, sexuality, citizenship, and AIDS in the United States. Not only has the theater provided a forum for gay male response to the epidemic, Roman contends, but it has also determined the degree to which those responses have shaped the ideological formulation of AIDS. Acts of Intervention provides a new method for discussing the relation between AIDS and representation, combining ideas from performance theory, gay and lesbian studies, critical race discourse, and cultural studies.

An autobiography of the poet, model, artist, songwriter, and porn star covers his thirty years in the Los Angeles gay community and the memorable men in his life

The writer, a model, porno actor, and homosexual, tells of his life of sex, drugs, and disco among the celebrity scene in Los Angeles in the 1970s and his later career as Hollywood's 'Naked Poet.' 20,000 first printing. Tour.