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