My First Sex Panic
A Personal History of America’s Morality Squad
Do you remember your first sexual propaganda panic?
Long before the "Scary Transsexual in the Ladies Room" fable, there was my golden era: the missing milk carton kids.
A fin de siècle freakout, it was.
I was in my 20s, in San Francisco, at the time of ascendant gay politics, the 1980s. Gay people were winning seats in office, and holding hands in broad daylight.
