When Tom Houston came to New York in the late 1960s the city had just begun to explode with new possibilities for gay men and women. An early gay activist, he stood witness to the revolutionary, sexual fervor of the 1970s and its collapse due to AIDS in the 1980s. This is the period during which the action in The Odds Of Heaven takes place. Over decades living in New York, he encountered a constant stream of odd and fantastic people, some famous but...