The September 1979 issue of the East Village Eye examines the burgeoning arts scene in New York’s East Village during the late 70’s and 80’s. The issue’s cover story, an off-color, but fascinating interview with NYC avant-garde jazz group The Lounge Lizards reinforces their egocentric reputation and assures that despite their celebrity, music is still their first priority. An interview with prolific queer filmmaker Rosa Von Praunheim, director of such films as 1971’s Die Bettwurst and It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives, ruminates on recent conflicts in the gay community: the San Francisco’s Gay Murders, the assassination of Harvey Milk, and the “hand slap sentence” of shooter Dan White, asserting that “changing laws can be done back and forth”, but to “change the people’s attitudes, to educate them” is far more important. Other featured content includes a biting criticism of a Dead Kennedy’s show, a prose piece from Kelly Green, and much more.