Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975), Italian filmmaker and poet, directed The Gospel According to Saint Matthew (1964), Teorema (1968), and his final film, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975), an adaptation of the Marquis de Sade’s novel. Shortly after Salò‘s release, Pasolini was murdered on the beach at Ostia, near Rome, at age fifty-three. Jack Fritscher’s review essay, “Toward an Understanding of Salo,” published in Drummer 20 (January 1978), was later collected in Gay San Francisco: Eyewitness Drummer and, in censored form, in Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera.

Gay San Francisco: Eyewitness Drummer
“Toward an Understanding of SALO“