Beyond shame : reclaiming the abandoned history of radical gay sexuality / Patrick Moore.

"Commission by the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS (a project of the Alliance for the Arts)."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The great experiment -- Theater of pleasure : the Mineshaft -- Another world : San Francisco and the Catacombs -- The Saint and the beginning of the end -- Gathering darkness -- The life and films of Fred Halsted -- What might have been -- The rise of the East Village -- New role models : Cookie Mueller and David Wojnarowicz -- The sexual flâneur -- Act up -- Owning AIDS -- Hope and caution : Assotto Saint and Felix Gonzalez-Torres -- "Contact" and the dangers of assimilation -- The Estate Project for Artists with AIDS.