[2] Bell returned to New York City in 1960 and found a job writing jacket copy for children's books.
After the first Christopher Street Liberation Day, which celebrated the previous year's Stonewall riots, Bell began to write under his surname.
In response he received a telephone call from someone claiming to have been the killer who, while generally appreciative of the piece, objected to being characterized as a "psychopath".
[9] Bell wrote additional columns condemning Friedkin and Cruising after reading a leaked early screenplay, deploring what he viewed as its negative depiction of gay people and claiming that it would inspire violence against homosexuals.
[2] They parted on bad terms in 1971, and Bell included an unflattering portrait of Evans in his book Dancing the Gay Lib Blues.