 Nutter first achieved notoriety for an essay he wrote for Details magazine in 1994 about life inside the closet.He moved to New York shortly afterwards to become a trend writer for publications such as "The Village Voice" (where he wrote for founding editor Richard Goldstein), "Vibe", "New York Magazine", "The New York Times", and "The Advocate".He also wrote the popular nightlife column "Night Watch" for "HX" (magazine) in the late nineties, and was a regular on the Manhattan and Miami Beach gay party scene as a bartender, doorman, and party boy.