Summers on Fire Island with Danny Fields shooting off his mouth poolside…vastly entertaining…total character.

Who is he? Seriously. Never heard of him.

Queerty fails to acknowledge that the "please kill me" quote as apposed to the "OUT" blurb, loosely compared above, is within the context of an oral history of 70s underground music and culture in which Danny Fields is comprehensively portrayed in the context of his work. The book includes some insight into the sex and drug infused scene, textually relevant therefore is who was taking what drug and the who fucked who parts. The implication in the OUT quote and the comparison above is that Fields, perhaps the most influential character in the protopunk years, armed with the fuck lure of star access, subsidized an MO of seducing bus boys and groupies with signing the occasional band. That's maybe OUT's idea of cool, but, for starters, its inaccurate. I see no evil on Field's part and suspect fun is being frankensteined into degredation here. Queers make the best gay bashers, they say. What a shame Queerty feels compelled to play the part.

Look, it's obvious that straight reporters know little about the ordinary goings-on in the gay world. Anything goes where gay sex is concerned. If Fields hinted that young men could meet putative musicians, that would have been standard fare. I don't know why he claims to have been Sedgewick's roomie; he was actually far more of a draw in the '60's than she. Not particularly handsome, poor Dan, but in there trying and often succeeding. Though, when a female friend of mine said she thought he was attractive, too bad he was gay, he became huffily indignant and told me not to "bag" him. Ha! He'd never got within sniffing distance of a woman, that's for sure. His downfall was Warhol, that fool!