David Dalton has worked for the San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle. He has now retreated to a small farm in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, where he also is involved in environmental activism and local politics. Dalton's forthcoming memoir will involve 40 years of gay history, for which he had a front-row seat and lived a life that brought him into intimate contact with some of the most important gay writers and thinkers of the last 40 years.