Author of over sixty published plays, including "Kennedy's Children"
and "T-Shirts", and a novel about the origins of underground and gay
playwrighting, "Temple Slave".
Only openly gay person ever awarded the International Thespian
Society's Founders Award for "services to theatre and to youth."
Only playwright to have two weekends designated in his honor by
Manhattan Borough Presidents (for his pioneering play about gay
teenagers, "Blue Is For Boys" in 1983 and 1986).
Received the Robert Chesley Lifetime Award for Gay Playwrighting (1997)
Had over 300 productions in Manhattan's Off-Off Broadway theatres in
the 1960s. Was called by play publisher Samuel French Inc. "New York's
most produced playwright" (1972).