Wolfe's the leading chronicler of the last 40 years of the 20th Century. If you've read Wolfe's every published word, like I have, you'll find fascinating this fragment that is all that has survived from an early, New York-based draft of A Man in Full.It's interesting to speculate on whether any major magazine would have published this ferocious satire on how the media pushes male homosexuality without ever having the guts to describe exactly what is it that gay men do. Obviously, the gay lobby is extremely strong today, and one of their chief goals is to minimize frank public discussion of what gays actually do. For example, all the enormous amount of verbiage spewed over the murder of poor Matthew Shepard avoided the obvious question of why did he agree to go off with those two thugs?