Before his death from AIDS at age fifty-one, Hubert Fichte was an active presence in contemporary German letters. Novelist, anthropologist, playwright, and polemicist, he was prolific and controversial, an outsider and auto-didact--a powerful public voice who was broadcast on German radio, heard at public lectures, and read in academic and popular literary journals. The Gay Critic--originally published in Germany as Homosexualit?t und Literatur--offers,...