Bert Wylen interviews writer and critic Bruce Bawer about his 1993 book, A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society. Wylen and Bawer reflect on the myth of a unified gay lifestyle, the possibilities gay culture holds for individual gay people, and Bawer’s belief in the central importance of assimilation. Wylen and Bawer discuss an article written by Rosamund Kayes for The Welcome Mat.
