In Beach 
Reading, the Best-selling first book in the series, tourists are arriving en masse for the “party of the decade” at the Moscone Center, a tribute to the late disco star Sylvester. On the same night as the dance party, some of Tim’s activist friends are planning to protest Arlo Montgomery's crusade against gay rights. Tim is so upset about his recent break-up with Jason that he hasn’t paid attention to either of the events and signs up to work at ARTS instead. On the previous Sunday afternoon Tim heads to the South of Market bars on the F-Market streetcar and meets a retired dancer named Vanessa, who tries to involve him in an assassination plot along with her ailing brother Harley and his abundant supply of “medicinal” marijuana.
- Tim sees a picture in the newspaper of his high school track coach David Anderson, the man who brought him out, with the homophobic preacher. By mid-week Dave tracks down Tim at the Midnight Sun and tells him he has a secret weapon to bring down Arlo Montgomery in San Francisco.
Note: Despite any resemblance to living and/ or historical figures, all characters mentioned or appearing in Beach Reading are fictitious except Sylvester, Two Tons o’ Fun, former Mayor Willie Brown, Mavis, Carol Doda, Jan Wahl and Dame Edna Everage, who is only partially fictitious.
One of the reasons I wrote this book is because I’ve always loved the image of a big mirror ball suspended from a helicopter spattering shards of sunlight across the financial district and later, emerging from the fog over Twin Peaks. I've always wanted an enormous party on Alcatraz too, but I could only manage it in Tim's dream. Above all else, Beach Reading is a love letter to San Francisco.
BEACHREADING
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