There’s a terrific article by Herbert Muschamp in today’s Times’s Arts & Leisure section about 2 Columbus Circle, gay men, New York in the 60s, culture, architecture, and Modernism. Pretty brilliant. “There’s no such thing as a bad drag act. There are only bad drag-act audiences.” I retract part of this.
The Tin Man
Fascinating piece. THE book to read about all of this is Queer Street by my darling James McCourt.
Some of the very first avant-garde film screenings I attended were in the basement auditorium of the Huntington Hartford back in 1963. Never saw the place as a partifularly gay hang out, back then, but I didn’t run with Henry’s crowd. I know Randy Borscheidt in passing as he was a friend of my friend Warren Sonbert the filmmaker.