On April Fool's Day of 1995, sometime actor and lifelong Chicagoan Sal Iacopelli began a three-year sojourn among the leather bars and drag shows, the expensive apartments and cheap thrills of San Francisco. His hilarious, bitchy and moving commentary was chronicled in a three-year series of letters to his longtime friend back home. Sal's observations on the collared and the buffed, the spankers and the slaves, the warped and the wonderful of the Gay Mecca make an unforgettable read—and outrageous illustrations by award-winning cartoonist Phil Foglio provide the perfect counterpoint. "In his three years living in San Francisco, Sal manages more sex than a Parisian whore, more laughs than a Barnum & Bailey clown, and more therapy than someone flying over the cuckoo's nest. His book is honest, exposing a warm, frustrated, gregarious, loving, lonesome, horny, and pushy bottom. Sal is a bitch, a drama queen, a macho sexual player, a masochist, an angry man with AIDS, and a dedicated friend... Love, Sal is also a rare view of life in the big City by the Bay, and a rarer view of what real Leather folk think, how they act, and what they feel." — Jack Rinella, author, The Master's Manual.