He frequented Dixie's Bar of Music,[2] a Bourbon Street club which was an epicenter of the New Orleans gay community in the 1950s and 1960s,[3] and hangout of artists and writers such as Lyle Saxon, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, and Gore Vidal.[4] During this period he refined his talent as a photographer, capturing portraits of notable figures of the southern Bohemia art and culture scene in