About Coming Unbuttoned: "Broughton writes with disarming frankness about his 80 years as an artist and as a human being seeking wholeness." - Kirkus Reviews About James Broughton: (from the documentary film Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton) "James Broughton was a trickster...James was one of the major poetic voices of gay liberation. And he did it by talking about ecstasy and joy." - Armistead Maupin (author, Tales of the City) "He was probably the most flirtatious man I've ever met." - Pauline Kael, author of I Lost It at the Movies "James will continually be rediscovered as this golden secret of West Coast bohemia. He was an outsider's outsider, under the Underground." - Neeli Cherkowski "He was so pioneering in being playful." - Keith Hennessy (artist, director of Circo Zero) "I see him in the visionary tradition of Blake, Whitman, Ginsberg. But where Whitman alludes to the pleasures of the flesh, Broughton was someone who lived them." - Don Kilhefner, founder of the Gay Liberation Front, Los Angeles
