For each writer, the waterfront was an erotically appealing setting; each was moved by the harbor’s rich past lives, by memories of sailors and stevedores, by the eroticism of what Wojnarowicz called “something silent and recalled,” by “the sense of age in a familiar place.”91 It was from this multiplicity, this erotic desire for communication and friendship, that the potential for the multigenerational collaboration that Wojnarowicz so keenly explored during his early career, in both personal journals and early publications such as The Waterfront Journals, emerged.
