His 1991 book Strange Bedfellows: The First American Avant-Garde was called "a chapter in our national biography" by Stefan Kanfer for the Los Angeles Times[1] and "a marvelous group portrait of a band of cultural renegades" by Publishers Weekly.
He majored in English at Stanford University and participated in anti-Vietnam War protests, including a guerrilla theater piece called Alice in ROTC-Land, co-starring with Sigourney Weaver.
He studied psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received his Ph.D. in 1976, and he worked for nineteen years as the staff psychologist of the Putnam County Community Mental Health Clinic.
His work on gay culture included the first major article about Marsha P. Johnson,[6] an early extended interview with Sylvia Rivera, and a book about the transgender figure, Minette.
Books: Films: Artifacts at the End of a Decade, organized by Steven Watson and Carol Huebner Venezia, is a boxed multiple that contains the work of 44 artists.