Bawer's prominence in the gay-rights commentariat drew the ire of some leftists. Peter Kurth complained at "Salon" on November 30, 1998, that "Bruce Bawer, Gabriel Rotello, Michelangelo Signorile, and the inevitable Larry Kramer have, with Sullivan and a few others, secured a virtual lock on gay commentary in the American media." Paul Robinson's book "Queer Wars: The New Gay Right and Its Critics", published by the University of Chicago in 2005, devoted the first of its three chapters to an analysis and critique of Bawer's writings on gay issues.