The Importance of Being Gay

The kids today, they have no idea what it was like. And I think this book is about what it means to grapple with being gay when there were in some ways sort of bromides of tolerance but a deeper way in which being gay was still something to be afraid of or afraid you were. Do you think it was good or bad that a nudist gay man, one survivor and then didn't pay taxes? We think Richard Hatch may have gone to jail for not paying taxes. "I guess those are two completely different things," she says.