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Amos Lassen wrote on 02/27/2011:

Brooks, Adrian. ‘Flights of Angels” My Life with the Angels of Light”. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2008.
A Way of Life
Amos Lassen
Adrian Brooks is a poet, a performer, a novelist and a playwright. When he lived in Philadelphia in the 60’s, he was active in the anti-war movement and fought for civil rights. In the 70’s in New York, he could be seen around Soho and hung around with members of Andy Warhol’s entourage and until 1980 he was in the vanguard of gay liberation and wrote for and starred in productions of a group called the Angels of Light. He now lives in San Francisco but he has taken the time and energy to give us his memoir
The Angels of Light was a performance group which grew out of the infamous Cockettes in San Francisco. But the Angels were more than just a group of performers, they were a way of life. The Angels were trashy and fantastic and they put on fabulous stage productions as they heralded in the early days of gay liberation.
Adrian Brooks was one who stood at the center of the group. He wrote most of the shows and he appeared in all of them. In his memoir he brings the San Francisco in which he lived to life as he tells stories about the Angels and we see how closely the Angels paralleled the Hippie movement. He was raised much differently than the way he turned out. He was born in 1947 in Philadelphia and was a Quaker anti-war and civil rights advocate but then he discovered California and the chance to be what he really wanted. He volunteered with Martin Luther King and was visible in the New York party and gallery scene, he was involved in Warhol’s Factory and then he moved to the west coast where he became involved with the Angels of Light.
The book has an introduction by Mark Thompson (author of “Gay Spirit”, “Gay Soul”. And “Gay Body”. It also contains many photographs by Daniel Nicoletta of which there are more than fifty in full-color.
The book is a beautiful look at what was once gay life and culture in America.