That Man: Peter Berlin

With his Dutch-boy haircut, down-to-the-navel scoop-neck muscle shirt and tight, white low-rise trousers that seemed more painted- than pulled-on, '70s porn-star Peter Berlin was a carefully constructed, unabashedly gay and surprisingly public icon at a time when few could imagine the existence of such a creature, even other gay men. A fixture on the San Francisco scene, the star of two fondly remember all-male classics (NIGHTS IN BLACK LEATHER, THAT BOY) and the subject of countless of photographs — most of which he took himself — Peter Berlin became a powerful symbol of not just gay freedom, but the freedom to invent oneself anew. But like the equally ico...