Author Gay Tale disavows his latt book amid credibily qutns - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• STYLE HALL-OF-FAMER GAY TALE TAK US INSI HIS AMAZG TOWNHOE, SHOWS US HIS SU COLLECTN, REVEALS INCREDIBLE TAILORG TRICK
• GAY TALE: PNEER OF NEW JOURNALISM
• AUTHOR GAY TALE DISAVOWS HIS LATT BOOK AMID CREDIBILY QUTNS
• GQ PERSONAL STYLE: GAY TALE
• GAY TALE
• GAY TALE
• WE ASKED A PUTER PROGRAM TO IMATE GAY TALE’S WRG. THEN WE ASKED TALE WHAT HE THOUGHT.
• WHEN NEW JOURNALISM WAS NEW: GAY TALE ON HIS LEGENDARY ESQUIRE PROFILE OF FRANK SATRA
• GAY TALE’S OTHER PROBLEM
• GAY TALE
• GAY TALE'S LEGACY WILL SURVIVE THE VOYR'S MOTEL SNDAL

STYLE HALL-OF-FAMER GAY TALE TAK US INSI HIS AMAZG TOWNHOE, SHOWS US HIS SU COLLECTN, REVEALS INCREDIBLE TAILORG TRICK

If there were a hall of fame for stylish journalists, Gay Tale wouldn't jt be — would be named after him. Author Gay Tale looks over a mancript at his home Ocean Cy, 1992.

paterly style of Gay Tale’s legendaryEsquiremagaze article, ‘Frank Satra Has A Cold’. Some make their livg by wrg; Gay. his wife sce 1959, legendary lerary edor Nan Tale, Gay explaed the negotiatns prr to his.

Durg the nt days when Gay was immersed.

GAY TALE: PNEER OF NEW JOURNALISM

”Talkg about the salac 1970s wh an ABC TV terviewer, Gay posed the qutns,.

Aged 85, Gay Tale ntu to wre books — he’s currently workg on one about. Gay Tale is a rake. Gay Tale is a legend the world of journalism and lerature, wh a legacy that spans over six s.

Today, we celebrate Gay’s ntributns to the world of letters by divg to the five sential books of his imprsive ovre.

AUTHOR GAY TALE DISAVOWS HIS LATT BOOK AMID CREDIBILY QUTNS

Gay tak rears on a journey through the hallowed halls of the newspaper, troducg to the edors, reporters, and power brokers who make all happen. Wh his signature blend of objectivy and lerary flair, Gay pats a vivid picture of the world’s most powerful and fluential newspaper.

Frank Satra Has a Cold (1966) – This inic piece of New Journalism is a classic example of Gay’s wrg style. In , Gay profil the legendary sger Frank Satra, pturg the sence of the man and the myth. From the rerdg studs to the nightclubs, Gay tak rears on a journey through Satra’s world, g dialogue, terr monologue, and vivid scriptns to brg the story to life.

Honor Thy Father (1971) – This hntg tale of fay, crime, and the Mafia is a mt-read for fans of Gay’s work. Gay tak ep to the world of the Bonanno crime fay, troducg to a st of fascatg characters, cludg the patriarch of the fay, Joe Bonanno. Wh his tramark attentn to tail, Gay weav a spellbdg story of power, loyalty, and the Amerin Dream.

GQ PERSONAL STYLE: GAY TALE

Gay tak rears on a journey through the world of sex and sexualy, troducg to a st of characters who are breakg down the boundari and challengg the stat quo. Unto the Sons (1992) – This movg and timate memoir is Gay’s tribute to his fay and his herage. In , Gay explor his own roots, tracg his anctry back to the old untry, and illumatg the story of his fay’s journey to Ameri.

GAY TALE

Wh his signature style, Gay brgs the story of his fay to life, patg a vivid picture of the Amerin immigrant experience. In ncln, the five books are jt the tip of the iceberg when to Gay Tale’s imprsive body of work.

From behd-the-scen looks at the world’s most powerful stutns to timate profil of the people who shape our world, Gay’s wrg is a ttament to the power of journalism and the art of storytellg.

So, on this ocsn of his birthday, let’s raise a glass to Gay Tale, the master of New Journalism, and the greatt storyteller of our time.

GAY TALE

Happy birthday, Gay! In his forthg book, "The Voyr's Motel, " acclaimed journalist and nonfictn thor Gay Tale chronicl the bizarre story of Gerald Foos, who allegedly spied on guts at his Colorado motel om the late 1960s to the Tale overlooked a key fact his book: Foos sold the motel, loted Aurora, Colo., 1980 and didn’t reacquire until eight years later, acrdg to lol property rerds.

Journalist and nonfictn thor Gay Tale discsed his passn for tellg the stori of real people durg a 2006 appearance. In celebratn of his newt book, Frank Satra Has a Cold and Other Essays, Gay Tale was the subject of a fascatg and rather prehensive terview the latt GQ UK.

Origatg 1960s Japan, where  was known as “yaoi, ” BL typilly picts two men a homoerotic relatnship. Some LGBTQ activists have acced BL stori of fetishizg and appropriatg gay culture. Wily regnized as South Korea’s first openly gay K-pop artist, the sger and actor Go Tae-seob, who the stage name Holland, starred a BL drama last year and believ that the growg visibily of BL books, TV seri and movi is a posive step.

WE ASKED A PUTER PROGRAM TO IMATE GAY TALE’S WRG. THEN WE ASKED TALE WHAT HE THOUGHT.

Bdette, who also intifi as gay and is a longstandg BL fan, said the genre will shake up nservative views on genr and sexualy South Korea. “Whether you are a heterosexual woman tryg to ject your sexual tonomy to the world, or you are a gay man who wants to see posive reprentatns of male-male romance, BL n be ed, ” he said.

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMorn LoveAs a gay Korean Amerin, I yearned for the privilege of beg heterosexual or whe. In junr high school, I wonred: What do love even look like for someone like me, surely the only gay Asian guy town?

”I yearned to have the privileg of beg eher heterosexual or whe bee I wasn’t jt gay and Asian; I was kky too.

WHEN NEW JOURNALISM WAS NEW: GAY TALE ON HIS LEGENDARY ESQUIRE PROFILE OF FRANK SATRA

But my stat as a triple mory felt like a sick joke, a ath all, on gay datg apps, East Asians routely face humanizatn that rc to nothg more than featurels clon the ey of others. But we also e the ntext of racial fetishism, that empty flattery that sts people of lor as cursi and turns to trophi, makg tough for to tst anyone’s pot: “I love Che food, ” whispered a betiful whe man after we had ma out at a Manhattan gay bar.

A send were tim my 20s, as I ventured to the sordid pths of the gay kk world, when I wished I uld disappear to that send sk forever.

”“You n’t be this elevator wh , ” said a dnk whe man a cheap harns at one of Ameri’s largt gay kk events, shovg me to the floor.

GAY TALE’S OTHER PROBLEM

I didn’t realize then that this is what they ll sexual time, whether the digni happened a schoolyard, gay bar or fetish club, they blend together a toxic stew, and wasn’t long before I shied away om datg altogether, like so many queer people of lor do to avoid racial fetishism or hatred.

Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.

There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.

GAY TALE

Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".

To do so, I turned to one of the most famo piec of journalism the 20th century: Gay Tale’s “Frank Satra Has a Cold, ” which ran Esquire an exemplar of “New Journalism, ” the piece b lorful observatn wh immersive reportg. I didn’t want to be the guy to tell Gay Tale a puter jt wrote sentenc that uld possibly stand for his. Gay Tale’s outle for “Frank Satra Has a Cold, ” sketched on one of his tramark shirt boards, 1966.

© 2015 and urty of Gay other tim I make not unobserved by the terviewee—such as durg those terptns our talks when the person has temporarily left the room, th allowg me moments which to jot down what I believe to be the relevant parts of our nversatn. © 2015 and urty of Gay chronicle is kept an ever-expandg seri of rdboard folrs ntag such data as the plac where I and my sourc had breakfast, lunch, and dner (rtrant receipts enclosed to document my expens); the exact time, length, lole, and subject matter of every terview; together wh the agreed-upon ndns of each meetg (i. ” © 2015 and urty of Gay tryg whout succs to rchle the Satra terview durg my send week Los Angel (I was told that he still had a ld), I ntued to meet wh people who were varly employed some of Satra’s many bs enterpris—his rerd pany, his film pany, his real tate operatn, his missile parts firm, his airplane hangar—and I also saw people who were more personally associated wh the sger, such as his overshadowed son, his favore haberdasher Beverly Hills, one of his bodyguards (an ex–pro leman), and a ltle gray-haired lady who traveled wh Satra around the untry on ncert tours, rryg a satchel his 60 hairpiec.

GAY TALE'S LEGACY WILL SURVIVE THE VOYR'S MOTEL SNDAL

Copyright © 2021 by Gay Tale.