Specification, estimation, and analysis of macroeconometric models Book

One often hears about the constant sex of the 70s (See the documentary "Gay Sex in the 70s", for one). What gay life was like during that period in other places in the US is harder to come by. Luckily this book tells it all. Beautiful travel recollections by Edmund White that each tell a quick story on the city at the time. Edmund adds his own observations and stops just short from making grand generalizations. It surely captures what is left of that odd decade between Stonewall and the start of the HIV crisis, along with the fiction of Faggots and Dancer from the Dance.

Also, I was amused by White's characterization of Camp on page 256. He says ".. Because camp is so arbitrary, it frightens the uninitiated or at least makes them uneasy. I would claim that the function of camp is to promote such uneasiness; it is a muted, irresponsible form of antagonism, one too silly to be held accountable, a safe way of subverting the system." I, a European from the other side of the Iron Curtain still struggle with recognizing camp in American culture, and this quote captures it beautifully.