In 1955, Confidential magazine threatened to publish an exposé about Hudson's secret homosexual life.

His concern was to investigate homosexual life as it was lived by ordinary homosexuals in everyday life.

For some stories, say on the diversity of homosexual life, parade pictures are appropriate, even essential.

Involved in the production are men too young to have experienced the fearful, secretive nature of homosexual life in the 1950's and 60's.

He could have had the ordinary life and the homosexual life.

But he didn't want an exclusively homosexual life.

He was married for 11 years, had a 9-year-old son, but had left his family to enter an openly homosexual life.

In that job, he got the attention of mainstream media with investigative articles about homosexual life and problems.

It is a depressing and often heart-rending story that tries to portray the positive side of homosexual life along with the self-destructive.

A social history of homosexual life in New York City.