"Ellenzweig's long, thorough text is a model of scholarship that succeeds in interweaving the evolution of gay culture, and how it related to changes in the culture at large, with art history." -- "Los Angeles Times Book Review"

Allen Ellenzweig is an arts critic and cultural commentator currently researching the life of twentieth-century photographer George Platt Lynes. He is a contributing writer to the "Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide" and has published in "Art in America," "PASSION: The Magazine of Paris," "Studies in Gender and Sexuality," and the online magazine, "TABLET." He teaches in the Writing Program at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in Riverdale, New York.

George Stambolian (1938--1991) was professor of French at Wellesley University and editor of "Twentieth Century French Fiction: Essays for Germaine Bree" and, with Elaine Marks, "Homosexualities and French Literature: Cultural Contexts/Critical Texts."