Peter Braunstein
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Peter Braunstein (born 1964) is a New York City-based journalist, writer, and playwright who became infamous for committing a October 31 2005 sexual assault, leading police on a multi-state manhunt until his capture and self-injury in Memphis, Tennessee on December 16 2005.
Popular culture history
Braunstein was also an academically trained popular culture historian, who contributed to W magazine, Village Voice, American Heritage[1], writing mostly about the history and culture of popular music.
He contributed to and co-edited Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960s & '70s with Michael William Doyle
His 1998 article "The Last Days of Gay Disco"[2] was well-received when it was published in 1998. It came out at the occasion of the release of two films: The Last Days of Disco and 54.
