My father made me do it.

He was on an anti-porn crusade at the time.

It was the fall of 1967, and our local movie house, the Bronx's own Globe Theater, debuted its first X-rated feature: I Am Curious (Yellow). Enraged, my father began...

I recently finished writing my memoirs about growing up and coming out as a gay Italian-American living in the Bronx in the 1970's. A long time before I started acting, I worked at a McDonalds in the Bronx and my manager at the time was Curtis Sliwa. This was before...