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York, Michael.
Travelling Player.
London: Headline, 1991.

Young, Allen.
Gay Sunshine Interview
with Allen Ginsberg. Bolinas, Calif.: Grey Fox, 1974.

Zadan, Craig,
Sondheim & Co.,
2d edition, updated. New York: Harper and Row, 1989.

Index

Aarons, Roy,
104
–6,
144
–45,
213

abortion,
67
,
252

Abrams, Robert,
220
,
221
,
256
,
264
–65

Abzug, Bella,
221
,
256
,
317

Achtenberg, Roberta,
331
,
337

ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power),
109
,
269
,
306
,
320
–25,
329

“Adjustment of the Male Overt Homosexual, The” (Hooker),
124

adolescents, gay: behavior of,
127

coming out by,
xii
,
270

AIDS and,
315

organizations for,
329

school for,
330

advertisements: gay, in straight media,
213

window,
271

mainstream, in gay magazines,
339
–40

Advise and Consent
(film),
155

Advocate
(Los Angeles)
149
n,
171
–72,
288

AIDS: early coverage of,
278
–85

New York Times
coverage of,
279
–81,
286
–87,
307

estimates of rate of infection,
283
,
284
–85

drug therapy for,
284
,
318
,
324
–25

gay activism and,
284
,
290
–92,
320
–25

toll of,
284
,
300
,
301
,
302
–6,
329
,
330

government expenditures on,
285
,
300

Shilts reports on,
288
–90

Kramer activated by,
290
–94

gay media coverage of,
292
–93

GMHC and,
293
,
298
–300

Krim and,
296

theories on origin of,
296
–97

Koch and,
299
,
307
–8

quilt project,
302

isolation of virus,
302
–3

survivor's guilt and,
307

immunity to,
307

lack of publicity on,
307
–8

New York Times Magazine
on,
308
–9

Koop and education on,
309
–10

gay identity and,
310
–17,
325

AZT and,
318
,
322
,
343

ACT UP and,
320
–25

Catholic Church and,
323
–24

Republicans exploit as campaign issue,
332

advances in combination drug therapy for,
343

contributing to sense of gay community,
329
–30,
343
~44

Albee, Edward,
7
,
89
,
165
,
166
,
175
,
180
n

Alfred, Randy,
271

Allen, Jay Presson,
97
,
100
,
210

Allen, Woody,
296

Alsop, Joseph,
80
–82

Altman, Lawrence K.,
279
–81,
343

American Civil Liberties Union,
140
,
221

American Composers League,
17

American Express,
339

American Family, An
(TV documentary),
208
–9

American Field Service,
34
–35

American Psychiatric Association:
See also
psychiatrists on homosexuality;

Military Mobilization Committee,
28
–29

reverses “illness” definition of homosexuality,
235
–40

American Psychoanalytic Association,
318

American Red Cross,
310

Amster, James,
171

anal intercourse: and AIDS,
309
,
309
n,
310
,
313

Andersson, Jon,
43

And the Band Played On
(Shilts),
288
–90

Annan, Lord,
212

Answered Prayers
(Capote),
110
,
175

Anthony, Robert J.,
323
–24

Anvil (bar),
244
–45,
294

Army, U.S.
See
military, U.S.

Arnaz, Desi,
67
,
68

Arnaz, Desi, Jr.,
68

Arthur (club),
180
–81,
180
n,
196

Artie's (bar),
104

artistic community: in the fifties,
88
–104

in the sixties,
165

Ashbery, John,
89
,
97

Ashworth, Tucker,
243
,
306

Astor Bar,
14
,
83

Atcheson, James (pseudonym),
16
–17,
37
,
57

athletes, gay,
52
,
339

Atkinson, Brooks,
94

AT&T,
270
,
339

Auden, W. H., ii,
43
,
99
,
123
,
210

Auletta, Ken,
76

Aymar, Brandt,
125
,
126

AZT,
318
,
322
,
343

Bacall, Lauren,
174

Bacevich, A. J.,
336
–37

Bachardy, Don,
123

Baker, Russell,
173

Balanchine, George,
42

Baldwin, Alec,
257

Baldwin, James,
xi
,
3
,
73
,
107
,
145
,
173

Bali (bar),
105

Ball, Lucille,
67
,
68

Bankhead, Tallulah,
17
,
173

Bankhead, William Brockman,
17

Barkley, Alben,
19

Barnes, Clive,
187

Barnett, Judy,
194
,
212

Barr, Richard,
7
,
186
,
186
n

bars: banning gays from,
19
,
83
–84

New Jersey ends ban on gays in,
145

bars, gay: in the forties,
8
,
13
,
14
,
15

in the fifties,
82
–83,
104
–7,
121
–22

in the sixties,
157

Stonewall Inn,
197
–202

in the seventies,
240
–48

bars, lesbian: in the fifties,
86

Bartlett, Charles,
81
,
82

Bartolomi, David,
313
–14

baths: in the forties,
41

in the fifties,
119
–20

in the seventies,
248
,
251

and AIDS epidemic,
289
–90,
294
,
297
,
300
–301,
308

Beame, Abraham,
250
n

Beatles, the,
150
–52,
196
,
259

Beaton, Cecil,
35

Beats,
98
–100,
135
,
137
,
152

Beatty, Warren,
296

Bell, Arthur,
216
n

Benecke, Marc,
256

Bennett, Michael,
318

Bennett, William,
272

Benton, Bill,
74
–75

Berger, Meyer,
21

Berkeley student movement,
136
–37

Berlin, Germany:
See also
Weimar Germany;

gay life in,
210

brothels in,
19
n.

Berlin, Irving,
37

Berlin Stories
(Isherwood),
61
,
209
–10

Bernheimer, Max,
25

Bernstein, Felicia,
91
,
183
–84,
214

Bernstein, Leonard,
65
,
89
,
107
,
112
,
182
–84,
188
,
196

relations with Copland,
17

and the creation of
West Side Story
,
89
–94

bisexuality of,
214

Berry, Chuck,
135

Bérubé, Allan,
28
,
29
,
33
,
47
,
48

Bible: on homosexuality,
xiii
,
19
,
338
–39

Bieber, Irving,
238
,
249

Bigelow, Otis,
5
–14,
25
,
49
,
54
,
103

Billings, Lemoyne,
14
–15

Billings, Robert J.,
273

Billingsley, Sherman,
15

Bingham, Jonathan,
220

Bird Circuit,
106
–7

bisexuality,
209
–11,
213
,
217
–21

in the fifties,
95

Studio 54

and,
253
–55

Black, Roger,
339

Black Cat Bar, Los Angeles,
171

blackmail: and gays as security risks,
69
,
72
,
79
,
82
,
237

in the fifties,
84

in the sixties,
146

Victim
critiques,
152
–55

Blackmun, Justice Harry,
319
–20

blacks,
101

civil rights movement for,
xii
–xiii,
135
,
136
,
145
,
147
,
335
–46

gay life in Harlem,
40
–41,
122

gays emulating tactics of radicals,
147
,
147
n–148n

lesbians,
231
–35

civil rights movement for,
335
,
346

integration in military,
335
–36

Blair, James (pseudonym),
283

Blick, Roy E.,
71

blood supply: and AIDS epidemic,
289
,
310

Blue Parrot (bar),
106

Bogarde, Dirk,
153
–54,
192

Bolan, Tom,
277

Bond, Helen Judy,
57

Bon Soir (bar),
42

Book Seller,
126

Boswell, John,
340
–41

Bourscheidt, Randy,
200

Bowers
v.
Hardwick
,
319
–20

Bowles, Paul,
17

Boy Bar,
295

Boys in the Band, The
(Crowley),
7
,
185
–92,
229

film of,
190

suburban straight casts for,
190
–91

Bradlee, Ben,
70
,
71
,
75

Bramson, Harold,
145

Brandeis, Justice Louis,
319
–20

Brando, Marlon,
135
,
151
,
259

Braun, Judge Arthur,
145

Breakfast at Tiffany's
(Capote),
172

Brennan, Justice William J., Jr.,
252
,
319

Brewster, R. Owen,
18

Bristol-Myers,
324
–25

Brody, Jane,
229
–31

Bronx United Gays (BUG),
220

Brown, Francis,
179

Brown, Howard,
250
–51

Brown, Jerry,
276

Brown, Willie,
93

Broyard, Anatole,
177
,
178
,
179
n

Bruce, Lenny,
135

Bryant, Anita,
269

Buchanan, Patrick J.,
332
,
333

Buchwald, Art,
81
,
82

Buckley, Charlie,
220

Buckley, William F., Jr.,
148

Bull, Chris,
334
n,
336

Bullitt, William,
18

Burger, Chief Justice Warren,
252
,
319

Burke, Tom,
209

Burroughs, William,
98
–100

Burroughs Wellcome: ACT UP and,
322

Burton, Humphrey,
17

Burton, Patricia,
20
–21

Burton, Philip,
285

Burton, Sybil,
180
,
181

Burton, William Anthony,
20
,
25

Buse, George,
32

Bush, George,
331
,
332
,
333

Butler, Michael,
95
–96

By Jupiter
(Broadway musical),
16

Cabaret
(film),
61
,
209
–11

Cadmus, Paul,
10
,
15
–16,
43
–44,
46
,
54
–55,
89
,
110
,
168
n,
174
,
210
,
211

Caen, Herb,
174

café society,
9
–10

Cage, John,
89

Cain, James M.,
116

California:
See also
San Francisco;

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