A tender but unflinching account of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek, forgotten stars of the 1960s sceneAndy Warhol sent Paul a Brillo box. Fran Lebowitz called Peter “a genius about sex”. The ending of Susan Sontag’s second novel was inspired by a bunch of Peter’s photographs.
Sontag dedicated two books to Paul, and went to bed with him. The two men’s long list of admirers in the second half of the 20th