According to his book, Once More With Feeling, Charlie gave a talk at
the Fourth International Steinbeck Conference at the University of San
Jose, California. The paper was entitled "John Steinbeck and the
Homosexual Reader." The talk was met with
disapproval from the audience and the essay was not included in the
published proceedings, the book "Beyond boundaries: rereading John
Steinbeck" (University of Alabama, 2002).
