The Washington Post, February 18th, 1994
I still remember the terror in the pit of my stomach when "The Mayor of Castro Street," Randy Shilts's biography of slain and openly gay San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk, was published in 1982. Randy - who died yesterday at 42 - and I were friends and fellow journalists in San Francisco at the time. We were both gay, but there was a difference: Randy was as open about his sexuality as I was closeted. What terrified me about Randy's book speaks volumes about the pathology of the closet. What terrified me was the sight of my own name, tucked far down on the "Acknowledgments" page, where Rand...
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