Tour guide Bowers, an extremely well endowed ex-Marine, got started by cheerfully saying yes to an overture by Walter Pigeon, whose gas he had just pumped at a Union Oil gas station on Wilshire where he was filling in.
The Richfield station where he worked nights in short order became the most notorious hookup site for moneyed clients and pliable women and ex-servicemen. Much of the breezy memoir sounds concocted, but when LA Weekly went to work verifying as many anecdotes as possible with those principals still alive, story after story checked out.
On a higher literary plane is Christopher (Gods And Monsters) Bram's broad new nonfiction survey, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America, with individual portraits of gay writers as well as chronicles of their complicated and changing interactions with each other. For the entire roundup, go to Band of Thebes.
Below: CBS interviews Scotty Bowers:
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