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Contents:

• GAY TALE
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS NEW YORK
• MAKG A CASE FOR ‘THE VOYR’S MOTEL’ BY GAY TALE
• GAY TALE’S OTHER PROBLEM
• VOYR REVIEW: A FASCATG, COMPLITED FILM ABOUT SEX AND SECRETSTHE HUBBUB SURROUNDG GAY TALE’S BOOK ABOUT A NOTOR MOTEL VOYR GETS THE FULL-LENGTH DOCUMENTARY TREATMENT.BY JORDAN HOFFMANOCTOBER 5, 2017COURTY OF NETFLIX.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEVOYR, A MARVELO DOCUMENTARY BUTG AT THE NEW YORK FILM FTIVAL BEFORE HEADG TO NETFLIX DECEMBER 1, IS PACKED BEYOND VANCY WH DISCSNS OF WEIGHTY TOPICS LIKE THORIAL TENT, TTH JOURNALISM, AND MEDIA MANIPULATN. BUT BEFORE ANY OF THAT, THERE’S THE PREMISE, WHICH MAY PEL YOU TO JUMP TO A HOT SHOWER. (ONE YOU’RE SURE HAS NO PEEPHOLE.)FOR S, A MOTEL OWNER OUTSI OF DENVER, GERALD FOOS, ED HIS BS AS HIS OWN PRIVATE SOCLOGY LABORATORY. HE NSTCTED AN “OBSERVATN CK” ABOVE THE ROOMS WHERE, THROUGH VENTS, HE WOULD SPY ON HIS CTOMERS. HIS PRIMARY TERT WAS SEX: HE WAS, AS HE GLOATS, THE WORLD’S GREATT VOYR. MOREOVER, BOTH OF HIS WIV (HIS FIRST PASSED AWAY) AID HIS CRIME. THEY BROUGHT HIM SNACKS THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AS HE HOVERED ABOVE HIS SUBJECTS, WAG, WATCHG, AND TAKG NOT.THAT LAST PART IS IMPORTANT. AS FOOS, NOW HIS EIGHTI, EXPLAS HIS RONANT, NO-NONSENSE TON, ONE N ONLY MASTURBATE SO MANY TIM A NIGHT. HIS TAILED JOURNALS ABOUT THE HABS OF THE MOTEL OCCUPANTS GREW, AFTER S, TO AN UNNIABLY EFUL AND FASCATG STUDY. (HE’D DO THGS LIKE LEAVE PORNOGRAPHY THE DRAWERS TO SEE HOW PEOPLE WOULD REACT.) IF ONLY SOMEONE WOULD EVER TAKE HIS FDGS SERLY.ENTER JOURNALIST GAY TALE WHO, 1980, WAS READYG THE RELEASE OF THY NEIGHBOR’S WIFE, HIS OUTSTANDG HISTORY OF THE SEXUAL REVOLUTN. (IF YOU’VE NEVER READ , PSE FOR A MOMENT, OPEN A BROWSER WDOW TO THE BOOK-PURCHASG SE OF YOUR CHOICE, AND HAVE A PY SENT TO YOU STANTLY. APART OM BEG BRILLIANT, IS SURPRISGLY TIMELY; THE RECENTLY PARTED HUGH HEFNER IS A KEY PART OF THE HISTORY.) TALE, PHG HIS NEW WORK ON SHOWS LIKE DONAHUE, RECEIVED A LETTER OM FOOS. THEY BEGAN RRPONDG, AND TALE EVEN VISED THE MOTELIER TO SEE HOW HIS NIGHTLY VOYRISM WORKED. (INED, THE FASHN-FORWARD TALE’S TIE SLIPPG THROUGH A GRATE NEARLY GAVE THE GAME AWAY.)DES LATER, WH TALE AND FOOS BOTH HTG THEIR EIGHTI, THEY AGREED WAS TIME TO SHARE THIS STORY.AND THEN THGS GOT WEIRD.VOYR VIGORATGLY LAYS OUT HOW TALE TRANSLATED HIS IENDSHIP TO BOOK FORM, G A [SHOCKG EXCERPT THE NEW YORKER TO MAKE HEADL. BUT DOCUMENTARIANS MYL KANE AND JOSH KOURY ARE ALSO SLY ABOUT KEEPG THE STORY’S SUBSEQUENT TWISTS CLOSE TO THE VT, EVEN THOSE THAT VIEWERS MAY SEE G THANKS TO PREV PRS VERAGE OF THE FALLOUT OM THAT EXCERPT.THERE ARE ISSU OF TST BETWEEN THE TWO MEN. IT’S UNCLEAR WHO IS EXPLOG WHOM—AND IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW WHAT IS BEG RECREATED FOR THE MERA AND WHAT IS BEG PTURED “LIVE.” THIS IS ALL TO THE BETTERMENT OF VOYR, WHICH, ISN’T TOO MUCH OF A SPOILER TO SAY, ULTIMATELY NCLUS THAT MR. TALE AND MR. FOOS AREN’T ALL THAT DIFFERENT OM ONE ANOTHER.THAT SUMMATN MIGHT SHOCK BOTH MEN, WHO PORT THEMSELV AS IF OM SEPARATE WORLDS. TALE IS A SLENR, BONAIR DANDY RARELY SEEN ANYTHG BUT A BPOKE SU WHO STEPS TO MANHATTAN’S NIGHT LIFE OM HIS UPPER EAST SI TOWNHOE. FOOS IS AN OVERWEIGHT SHUT- THE COLORADO SUBURBS WHO WATCH TELEVISN SWEATPANTS. A PARTICULARLY CHOICE MOMENT THE FILM IS AN ANGRY MONOLOGUE FOOS GIV WHILE SLOWLY SCENDG A STAIRSE A MOTORIZED CHAIR. IN FOOS’S BASEMENT ARE ENDLS BOX EXPOSG HIS LIFE AS AN OBSSIVE LLECTOR. (BASEBALL RDS, CEREAL BOX, S, YOU NAME .) TALE’S BASEMENT MAY HAVE A MORE NOBLE GOAL—’S WHERE HE WR HIS AWARD-WNG JOURNALISM—BUT IS NO LS A WAREHOE OF CLIPPGS, FIL, AND BETS ABOUT THE SUBJECTS HE’S BEEN FOCED ON FOR S.TALE KEEPS AN ENORMO RDBOARD CUTOUT OF HIMSELF HIS HOME, AS WELL AS MANY AMED PORTRAS. HE IS A LIVG LEGEND AND A TALENT WH FEW RIVALS, BUT HE ALSO LIK THE SPOTLIGHT. THAT’S LUCKY FOR THE FILM, AS HIS EAGERNS AS A DOCUMENTARY SUBJECT EXPOS HIM TO SOME FASCATG SCTY. BUT ’S EVEN BETTER LUCK FOR THOSE OF WATCHG ON THE OTHER SI OF THE SCREEN, THE DARK WHERE WE N’T BE SEEN.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE TV MOVIE IS MAKG A WEIRD, WONRFUL COMEBACKBY DAVID CANFIELDJORDAN HOFFMAN
• GAY CHIGO
• GAY TALE: A MAN OF RERD

GAY TALE

But here’s what me first: Back April, when the New Yorker published “The Voyr’s Motel, ” Gay Tale’s article tailg how Gerald Foos had spied on guts havg sex his East Colfax Avenue motel for s through special ventilatn screens he’d... Back April, when the New Yorker published “The Voyr’s Motel, ” Gay Tale’s article tailg how Gerald Foos had spied on guts havg sex his East Colfax Avenue motel for s through special ventilatn screens he’d stalled the ceilgs of the now-funct Manor Hoe motel, I was as amed, horrified and fascated by the tale as were most people who read . [Below: a YouTube vio which Foos scrib his llectn, also featurg Gay Tale.

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTCred...Rob Marchant/Getty ImagJuly 1, 2016In Gay Tale’s forthg book, “The Voyr’s Motel,” about a Colorado motel owner who spied on his guts for years whout their knowledge, Mr.

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS NEW YORK

Foos was not the owner, stg doubt on some of his rellectns.Man Entrek, the chief executive and publisher of Grove Atlantic, said the pany would move forward wh the publitn and the promotn of the book, and might add a new thor’s note.“Gay is gog to do all his planned promotn and publicy, and we’ll make any necsary rrectns, as any publisher do,” Mr. “Gay is an impassned person and he tak what he do very serly, and he’s trated alg wh this guy who isn’t pletely reliable.”Much of the narrative is based on journals that Mr.

MAKG A CASE FOR ‘THE VOYR’S MOTEL’ BY GAY TALE

“The fact that he uld sometim prove an unreliable and accurate narrator is also somethg that Gay Tale mak clear to the rear, repeatedly, and is part of the way Foos is characterized throughout the article.”Mr.

Many took to Twter wh the hashtag #womengaytalhouldread.If more qutns arise about “The Voyr’s Motel,” uld leave a sta on Mr. To this day, no one has been murr Foos claims he saw is a key element of "The Voyr's Motel, " a forthg book by acclaimed journalist Gay Tale about Foos's lifelong voyrism obssn. But the facts that Gay is reportg, I believe, are facts.

GAY TALE’S OTHER PROBLEM

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VOYR REVIEW: A FASCATG, COMPLITED FILM ABOUT SEX AND SECRETSTHE HUBBUB SURROUNDG GAY TALE’S BOOK ABOUT A NOTOR MOTEL VOYR GETS THE FULL-LENGTH DOCUMENTARY TREATMENT.BY JORDAN HOFFMANOCTOBER 5, 2017COURTY OF NETFLIX.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEVOYR, A MARVELO DOCUMENTARY BUTG AT THE NEW YORK FILM FTIVAL BEFORE HEADG TO NETFLIX DECEMBER 1, IS PACKED BEYOND VANCY WH DISCSNS OF WEIGHTY TOPICS LIKE THORIAL TENT, TTH JOURNALISM, AND MEDIA MANIPULATN. BUT BEFORE ANY OF THAT, THERE’S THE PREMISE, WHICH MAY PEL YOU TO JUMP TO A HOT SHOWER. (ONE YOU’RE SURE HAS NO PEEPHOLE.)FOR S, A MOTEL OWNER OUTSI OF DENVER, GERALD FOOS, ED HIS BS AS HIS OWN PRIVATE SOCLOGY LABORATORY. HE NSTCTED AN “OBSERVATN CK” ABOVE THE ROOMS WHERE, THROUGH VENTS, HE WOULD SPY ON HIS CTOMERS. HIS PRIMARY TERT WAS SEX: HE WAS, AS HE GLOATS, THE WORLD’S GREATT VOYR. MOREOVER, BOTH OF HIS WIV (HIS FIRST PASSED AWAY) AID HIS CRIME. THEY BROUGHT HIM SNACKS THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AS HE HOVERED ABOVE HIS SUBJECTS, WAG, WATCHG, AND TAKG NOT.THAT LAST PART IS IMPORTANT. AS FOOS, NOW HIS EIGHTI, EXPLAS HIS RONANT, NO-NONSENSE TON, ONE N ONLY MASTURBATE SO MANY TIM A NIGHT. HIS TAILED JOURNALS ABOUT THE HABS OF THE MOTEL OCCUPANTS GREW, AFTER S, TO AN UNNIABLY EFUL AND FASCATG STUDY. (HE’D DO THGS LIKE LEAVE PORNOGRAPHY THE DRAWERS TO SEE HOW PEOPLE WOULD REACT.) IF ONLY SOMEONE WOULD EVER TAKE HIS FDGS SERLY.ENTER JOURNALIST GAY TALE WHO, 1980, WAS READYG THE RELEASE OF THY NEIGHBOR’S WIFE, HIS OUTSTANDG HISTORY OF THE SEXUAL REVOLUTN. (IF YOU’VE NEVER READ , PSE FOR A MOMENT, OPEN A BROWSER WDOW TO THE BOOK-PURCHASG SE OF YOUR CHOICE, AND HAVE A PY SENT TO YOU STANTLY. APART OM BEG BRILLIANT, IS SURPRISGLY TIMELY; THE RECENTLY PARTED HUGH HEFNER IS A KEY PART OF THE HISTORY.) TALE, PHG HIS NEW WORK ON SHOWS LIKE DONAHUE, RECEIVED A LETTER OM FOOS. THEY BEGAN RRPONDG, AND TALE EVEN VISED THE MOTELIER TO SEE HOW HIS NIGHTLY VOYRISM WORKED. (INED, THE FASHN-FORWARD TALE’S TIE SLIPPG THROUGH A GRATE NEARLY GAVE THE GAME AWAY.)DES LATER, WH TALE AND FOOS BOTH HTG THEIR EIGHTI, THEY AGREED WAS TIME TO SHARE THIS STORY.AND THEN THGS GOT WEIRD.VOYR VIGORATGLY LAYS OUT HOW TALE TRANSLATED HIS IENDSHIP TO BOOK FORM, G A [SHOCKG EXCERPT THE NEW YORKER TO MAKE HEADL. BUT DOCUMENTARIANS MYL KANE AND JOSH KOURY ARE ALSO SLY ABOUT KEEPG THE STORY’S SUBSEQUENT TWISTS CLOSE TO THE VT, EVEN THOSE THAT VIEWERS MAY SEE G THANKS TO PREV PRS VERAGE OF THE FALLOUT OM THAT EXCERPT.THERE ARE ISSU OF TST BETWEEN THE TWO MEN. IT’S UNCLEAR WHO IS EXPLOG WHOM—AND IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW WHAT IS BEG RECREATED FOR THE MERA AND WHAT IS BEG PTURED “LIVE.” THIS IS ALL TO THE BETTERMENT OF VOYR, WHICH, ISN’T TOO MUCH OF A SPOILER TO SAY, ULTIMATELY NCLUS THAT MR. TALE AND MR. FOOS AREN’T ALL THAT DIFFERENT OM ONE ANOTHER.THAT SUMMATN MIGHT SHOCK BOTH MEN, WHO PORT THEMSELV AS IF OM SEPARATE WORLDS. TALE IS A SLENR, BONAIR DANDY RARELY SEEN ANYTHG BUT A BPOKE SU WHO STEPS TO MANHATTAN’S NIGHT LIFE OM HIS UPPER EAST SI TOWNHOE. FOOS IS AN OVERWEIGHT SHUT- THE COLORADO SUBURBS WHO WATCH TELEVISN SWEATPANTS. A PARTICULARLY CHOICE MOMENT THE FILM IS AN ANGRY MONOLOGUE FOOS GIV WHILE SLOWLY SCENDG A STAIRSE A MOTORIZED CHAIR. IN FOOS’S BASEMENT ARE ENDLS BOX EXPOSG HIS LIFE AS AN OBSSIVE LLECTOR. (BASEBALL RDS, CEREAL BOX, S, YOU NAME .) TALE’S BASEMENT MAY HAVE A MORE NOBLE GOAL—’S WHERE HE WR HIS AWARD-WNG JOURNALISM—BUT IS NO LS A WAREHOE OF CLIPPGS, FIL, AND BETS ABOUT THE SUBJECTS HE’S BEEN FOCED ON FOR S.TALE KEEPS AN ENORMO RDBOARD CUTOUT OF HIMSELF HIS HOME, AS WELL AS MANY AMED PORTRAS. HE IS A LIVG LEGEND AND A TALENT WH FEW RIVALS, BUT HE ALSO LIK THE SPOTLIGHT. THAT’S LUCKY FOR THE FILM, AS HIS EAGERNS AS A DOCUMENTARY SUBJECT EXPOS HIM TO SOME FASCATG SCTY. BUT ’S EVEN BETTER LUCK FOR THOSE OF WATCHG ON THE OTHER SI OF THE SCREEN, THE DARK WHERE WE N’T BE SEEN.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE TV MOVIE IS MAKG A WEIRD, WONRFUL COMEBACKBY DAVID CANFIELDJORDAN HOFFMAN

And gay stars—particularly Black gay stars—are a rary, even the wake of a trickster like Lil Nas X, who hacked the untry charts 2019, wh “Old Town Road. Was easier to be openly gay now that big nam like Brandi Carlile were out? ” They were playg their first Bluebird showse, performg songs om their breakout sophomore album, “Whe Trash Revelry.

Osborne, of the popular duo Brothers Osborne, nfirmed that he was gay, 2021, his management pany arranged a reful mpaign: one profile, wrten by a sympathetic journalist, and one relevant sgle, the eful but vague “Younger Me, ” which felt signed to offend no, who is spired as much by Andy Kfman’s absurdism as by John Pre’s smarts, was part of a different breed.

” You uld also see this ial reflected “My Kd of Country, ” a realy petn show on Apple TV+, produced by Mgrav and Ree Wherspoon, that focsed on global untry acts and clud the gay South Ain mician Orville Peck as a judge, and “Shucked, ” a new Broadway show wh mic by Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally, which offered up a sweet visn of a multiracial small town learng to open s doors. One of the bt-known Atralian histori of the game, wrten by Johnny Warren, a former pta of the men’s team, has the ironilly tend tle “Sheilas, Wogs, and Poofters”—a tr of Atralian slurs for, rpectively, women, southern-European immigrants, and gay men, the three groups thought to make up soccer’s nstuency.

GAY CHIGO

Buford’s article was “Thy Neighbor’s Life, ” a nod toward Gay Tale’s classic of participatory soc-sexual journalism, “Thy Neighbor’s Wife” (1981). By Gay Tale. Gay Tale’s Other Problem.

Gay Tale.

Gay Tale probably wish he’d had a ld.

GAY TALE: A MAN OF RERD

“You n’t make this stuff up, ” Gay Tale says the begng of Voyr, the new documentary chroniclg the velopment of his book The Voyr’s Motel, which was excerpted as a ntroversial New Yorker article, and, as of Friday, is available on Netflix.

In hdsight, some errors are glargly obv: There are some obv and damng genr dynamics at work here, between Gay and Nan and between Foos and his wife, Ana, but Kane and Koury do ltle to lve to the sexual polics that make Foos’s motel an enavor of masculy, and an credibly vlatg and disturbg one at that. The level of meta-storytellg they attempt to tell lv to all the most superficial rners, like watchg Tale’s dghter, an artist, pat Foos’s motel for her father’s book; Tale and Foos, when they first meet 2013, stay at a motel, se you didn’t know what they’re gettg at faiar wh Gay Tale’s brand of lerary journalism, which has bee a fg style, is likely faiar wh another pneer, Ja Mallm, who said this of her chosen genre, bgraphy: “The voyrism and bybodyism that impel wrers and rears of bgraphy alike are obscured by an apparat of scholarship signed to give the enterprise an appearance of bank-like blandns and solidy. ) If only someone would ever take his fdgs journalist Gay Tale who, 1980, was readyg the release of Thy Neighbor’s Wife, his outstandg history of the sexual revolutn.