Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

by Elon Green

After a six-week trial, Rick was hired by Premier Cruise Lines, which he came to think of as “the Staten Island Ferry of the Bahamas.”

A few months before he died at the age of ninety-nine, Morgenthau pungently described the gay panic defense as “that bullshit excuse.”