The wild story of a 70s gay radical who streaked the Oscars

Robert Opel and David Niven at the 1974 Academy Awards. (Photo: Screenshot)

On Sunday afternoon, New Yorker writer Michael Schulman posted a tweet promising “a wild & crazy story coming out in tomorrow’s New Yorker.” The piece, he wrote, involved “the 1970s San Francisco leather scene, Robert Mapplethorpe, gay liberation, sex, drugs, murder…