"Mike's three big Christopher Street operations are Chris­topher's End, when it's open, the Studio Book Store, and Gay Dogs. Mike calls himself a gay catalyst and flesh peddler. He deals in boy-boy sex"

"Televisions blare from every room in the Chateau Marmont. Reagan's in surgery... Jim Brady's near death... Dan Rather's in tears. The coun­try's gone crazy. The world's about to col­lapse... And the Oscars have been postponed until tomorrow."

On the scene of a dog day afternoon in Queens

After Harvey Milk was assassinated in San Francisco, the Voice’s Arthur Bell looked at homophobia in New York City: ‘The gay-rights bill should be a matter of common decency, not one of political maneuverings — from either side’

With William Friedkin’s long-controversial thriller screening this week at the Quad, we look back at its turbulent legacy

Here‘s Arthur Bell‘s classic account of the making of a masterpiece

The Village Voice was right there as three men tried to rob a Brooklyn bank on August 22, 1972