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Contents:
- GAY HISTORY VS. MDHUNTER – THE MURR OF ADDISON VERRILL BY PL BATON (1979): WHAT’S RIGHT, WHAT’S WRONG AND WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW.
- GAY ACTOR JONATHAN GROFF PRAISED FOR STRAIGHT ROLE ON NETFLIX'S MDHUNTER
GAY HISTORY VS. MDHUNTER – THE MURR OF ADDISON VERRILL BY PL BATON (1979): WHAT’S RIGHT, WHAT’S WRONG AND WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW.
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In the 1970s, Pl Baton was a gay man livg Borough Park, Brooklyn, mutg to Manhattan for work — and to explore the S&M and leather subcultur of Greenwich Village. He had been a reporter for Variety and was also a member of the gay muny. When his murr received hardly any attentn om the lol prs, Village Voice journalist Arthur Bell lled out the media’s plete apathy toward the liv of gay men.
When they zero on gay men, the sentiment often exprsed is, ‘They brought on themselv. “Each year, ” he ntued, “there are approximately four ‘sexually oriented’ murrs of gay men the Greenwich Village area. This mystery man went on to tell Bell that he had met Verrill at Badlands, a gay bar on Christopher Street, where they partied until 3 a.
GAY ACTOR JONATHAN GROFF PRAISED FOR STRAIGHT ROLE ON NETFLIX'S MDHUNTER
In season 2 of Mdhunter, Dr. Wendy Carr and Agent Smh team up to vis Pl Baton, a gay man and former medil radgrapher and nvicted murrer . In 1979 Baton was nvicted of killg journalist Addison Verrill * gay serial killer mindhunter *
After that, they stopped at a gay BDSM club lled Mhaft before headg to Verrill’s stud apartment. As turned out, there had been que a few murrs of gay men Greenwich Village the years leadg up to his arrt. Police traced some of their revered clothg to a shop Greenwich Village that tered to gay men the leather subculture.
Loosely based on Gerald Walker’s novel of the same name, ’s about a police officer who go eply unrver to solve a strg of murrs of gay men the Wt Village the 1970s. The film was reviled the gay muny for s nflatn of homosexualy and vlence.
Bell himself wrote that would surely be “the most opprsive, ugly bigoted look at homosexualy ever prented on screen. Gay guy to leather, ” he says. Furthermore Groff, an openly gay man known for his mpy Kg Gee Broadway’s Haton, mak ltle effort to play Holn as tradnally mascule or heterosexual, be posture, gture or tone of voice.