These images of many of the denizens of Baltimores gay underground in the1970s are often deeply disturbing. The literal nakedness of many of thesubjects provide... » 

These images of many of the denizens of Baltimores gay underground in the1970s are often deeply disturbing. The literal nakedness of many of thesubjects provides only a minimal index of how painfully exposed and vulnerablesome of them are. I feel grateful to Amos Badertscher for having produced andpreserved these images and to Tyler Curtain for the responsive generosity ofhis vision of them.Michael Moon author of A Small Boy and OthersImitation and Initiation in American Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol «