Beneath the Skin: The Collected Essays of John Rechy Book

	Foreword
	El Paso del Norte	3
	The city of lost angels	17
	"Conduct unbecoming ... " : lieutenant on the peace line	36
	The army fights an idea	49
	"All it does is make you hate"	58
	The sunshine girl's homophobic pitch	67
	Common bonds and battles	70
	Masters and Johnson focus on homosexuality	74
	A case for Cruising	77
	Hollywood and homosexuality : heterosexual films in drag	85
	Twenty years of Gore Vidal : a candidate for canonization?	94
	Burroughs strokes again	97
	Memory babe	101
	AIDS : mysteries and hidden dangers	104
	The dean from Dublin : a truly civilized man	108
	City of night remembered	111
	Less than zero	123
	A high court decision and a sense of betrayal	126
	Carson McCullers' Reflections in a golden eye	129
	Muscles and mascara	136
	Sixty years later a gay classic enters (almost) the mainstream	145
	The outlaw sensibility	150
	A tough guy from L.A.	168
	Letter to Gore Vidal	172
	Letter to the New York review of books	177
	Sets and reps	181
	Sergei Eisenstein : a life in conflict	187
	Places left unfinished at the time of Creation	191
	Brother Paul, Sister Jan, Brother Hinn, God, and the folks	197
	Lay of the land : Christopher Isherwood's Lost years	205
	Randy Dandy : Liberace, American boy	212
	Holy drag!	219
	The horror, the horror : thoughts on the aftermath of September 11	222
	Beatin' around the Bush	231
	Sins of the fathers	234
	Cruise not gay! : the judge has spoken	238
	Blonde	242
	Lawrence brings it all back home	251
	From Sunset Boulevard to Mulholland Drive	257
	A star is killed	272
	A spirit preserved in Amber	277
	On writing : the terrible three rules	282
	Our friend the comma	286
	Fragments from a literary life	290
	He hugged moms and dads	296