There was a lot of vice policing in New York City. Gay clubs were being raided all the time. All you needed was one or two people or organizations to complain to the district attorney about something and he'd go after them. And at that point your newsstand distributor gave you an ultimatum. Either you include more hard core sex. I went from sex to rock and roll.
Steven Heller—legendary writer and author—joins to discuss his new book “Growing Up Underground,” an entertaining and humorous coming-of-age story at the center of New York’s youth culture in the 1960s and 1970s.