Ricky Mart: Openly Gay Gianni Versace 'Moved Me In Many Ways'

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• THE MOMENT GIANNI VERSACE OPENED UP ABOUT HIS SEXUALY TO PRSTHE FASHN SIGNER SPOKE OPENLY ABOUT HIS SEXUALY AN TERVIEW TWO YEARS BEFORE HIS ATH.BY JULIE MILLERFEBARY 14, 2018GETTY; 105342483, 461748001LEFT, BY RON GALELLA/WIREIMAGE; RIGHT, BY ALBERTO ROVERI/MONADADORI PORFOL/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEDURG WEDNDAY’S EPISO OF AMERIN CRIME STORY, “DON’T ASK DON’T TELL,” GIANNI VERSACE DO SOMETHG CREDIBLY BRAVE, PECIALLY FOR THE FACE OF A LUCRATIVE FASHN BRAND THAT POSTS NE-DIG ANNUAL SAL—AND THE LS TOLERANT CULTURAL CLIMATE OF THE 90S: HE OUT AN TERVIEW WH THE ADVOTE, TRODUCG HIS LONGTIME BOYIEND, ANTON D’AMI, TO JOURNALIST BRENDAN LEMON.ON AMERIN CRIME STORY, VERSACE PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDG HIS SEXUALY EVEN AFTER HIS SISTER AND BS PARTNER DONATELLA (PLAYED BY PENELOPE CZ) PLEADS FOR HIM NOT TO—AAID THAT THE REVELATN ULD AFFECT SAL. WHILE ’S IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW WHAT NVERSATNS THE SIBLGS HAD BEHD-THE-SCEN ABOUT GIANNI’S SEXUALY, THE SIGNER’S STATEMENTS THIS REAL-LIFE TERVIEW REMA ON THE RERD.THE ACTUAL TERVIEW WAS TUCKED EP SI THE ADVOTE’S JULY 1995 ISSUE, AND PEGGED TO THE RELEASE OF VERSACE’S BOOK MEN WHOUT TI, WHICH THE SIGNER DITED “TO THE THREE ANTONS OF MY LIFE: MY FATHER, ANTON D’AMI, [AND] MY NEPHEW.”BRENDAN LEMON SCRIBED MEETG VERSACE AND D’AMI EARLIER THAT YEAR SI A ST. REGIS HOTEL SUE MANHATTAN, AND BEGAN THE TERVIEW BY ASKG VERSACE TO SCRIBE HIS THREE DITE.“VERSACE LLS ANTON D’AMI SIMPLY ‘MY PANN,’ AND FOR ONCE, THE PHRASE NNOT NOT SOME JAM-IAN SPSTER BEG TNDLED AROUND EUROPE BY A NIECE OR SOME PHEMISM BTOWED BY NEW YORK TIM OBUARY WRERS BUT A GENUE TERM OF ENARMENT,” WROTE LEMON, WHO ADD THAT D’AMI SAT “ ON THE TERVIEW AND CHIP[PED] THE OCSNAL WELL-RMED MENT.”LEMON WENT ON TO PORTRAY D’AMI AS A PARTNER BOTH THE PERSONAL AND PROFSNAL SENSE—LLG HIM “A HIGHER-UP THE VERSACE EMPIRE (WHOSE VAR L OF MENSWEAR, WOMENSWEAR, UTURE, AGRANC AND LICENSE HAD BED SAL OF MORE THAN $650 LN 1994) AS WELL AS VERSACE’S TIMATE FOR MORE THAN A .”THE ARTICLE SCRIBED THE OVERT SEXUALY OF VERSACE’S SIGNS AND ADVERTISG MPAIGNS, AND QUOTED RICHARD MART, CURATOR OF THE COSTUME INSTUTE AT THE METROPOLAN MM OF ART NEW YORK CY, AS SAYG, “THERE IS NO QUTN THAT VERSACE’S OWN OUT GAY INTY HAS BEEN A PART OF THIS WORK. HE IS THE TRADN OF THE AVANT-GAR, WHICH MEANS THAT HE IS WILLG TO RISK A LOT. AND HE DON’T N FOR VER WHEN HIS RISKS PROVOKE OUTRAGED RPONSE.”AMERIN CRIME STORY -CREATOR RYAN MURPHY HAS SAID THAT HE WAS EPLY AFFECTED BY VERSACE’S OPENNS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY THIS PARTICULAR TERVIEW.“I REMEMBER BEG SO PROUD AND EXCED WHEN HE DID THAT [G OUT] TERVIEW THE ADVOTE, BEE AT THE TIME THERE WASN’T REALLY A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WERE BRAVE ENOUGH TO LIVE THEIR LIFE THE OPEN,” MURPHY TOLD PRS THIS SUMMER.RICKY MART, WHO PLAYS D’AMI THE SERI, HAS ALSO SPOKEN ABOUT THE SIGNIFINCE OF THE SCENE FOR HIM.“I’M A GAY MAN THAT LIVED THE CLOSET FOR MANY YEARS. TO SEE THE PROCS OF GIANNI ACTUALLY G OUT AND STG DOWN ONT OF A JOURNALIST TO TALK ABOUT HIS REALY IS SOMETHG THAT MOVED ME MANY WAYS,” MART TOLD US WEEKLY. “THE FACT THAT THEY ULDN’T BE AS OPEN AS I AM RIGHT NOW WH MY RELATNSHIP IS SOMETHG THAT REALLY TRAT ME.”IN “DON’T ASK DON’T TELL,” VERSACE’S BOLD G OUT THE ADVOTE IS SHOWN NTRAST TO JEFEY TRAIL’S TERVIEW WH THE CBS NEWSMAGAZE 48 HOURS SEGMENT. ACTOR FN WTROCK TOLD VANY FAIR’S STILL WATCHG PODST THAT ORR TO GET TO THE MDSET OF PLAYG ANDREW CUNANAN’S FIRST VICTIM, HE WATCHED THE FOOTAGE ON REPEAT: “THAT WAS MY BIBLE. I WOULD WATCH THAT AND LISTEN TO THAT EVERY DAY.” YOU N WATCH AN EXCERPT OF THAT FOOTAGE HERE:TO FD OUT MORE ABOUT THE TE STORY OF VERSACE, CUNANAN, TRAIL, AND MORE YOU N LISTEN TO THE FULL TERVIEW WH WTROCK—AS WELL AS PAST GUTS MREEN ORTH, RICKY MART, MAX GREENFIELD, JUDH LIGHT, CODY FERN, AND WRER TOM ROB SMH—BY SUBSCRIBG TO STILL WATCHG: VERSACE ON APPLE PODSTS OR YOUR PODST APP OF CHOICE. NEW EPISOS OF THE PODST AIR EVERY WEDNDAY NIGHT.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHZENDAYA PAYS TRIBUTE TO “BROTHER” ANG CLOUD: “I’LL CHERISH EVERY MOMENT”BY SAVANNAH WALSHFRAN DRCHER PREDICTS 6 MORE MONTHS OF ACTORS STRIKE: “WE’RE REALLY IT TO W IT”BY SAVANNAH WALSHVERSACE’S FIRST SHOW AFTER GIANNI VERSACE’S DEATH1 / 7CHEVRONCHEVRONBY KEN TOWNER/EVENG STANDARD/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK.NAOMI CAMPBELLJULIE MILLER
• DID GIANNI VERSACE ACTUALLY ADM HE WAS GAY TO "THE ADVOTE?" Y, AND 'S SOMETHG RYAN MURPHY GREATLY ADMIR
• WAS GIANNI VERSACE GAY
• RENTIMIENTO, MENTIRAS Y ADICCN: LOS MISTERSOS MOTIVOS L ASO SERIAL GAYS QUE MATó A GIANNI VERSACE
• DONATELLA VERSACE HAS LONG BEEN A GAY IN. NOW IT’S OFFICIAL.
• HOW “THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE” US DANCE POP TO CRAFT A GAY AMERIN PSYCHO
• RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)

THE MOMENT GIANNI VERSACE OPENED UP ABOUT HIS SEXUALY TO PRSTHE FASHN SIGNER SPOKE OPENLY ABOUT HIS SEXUALY AN TERVIEW TWO YEARS BEFORE HIS ATH.BY JULIE MILLERFEBARY 14, 2018GETTY; 105342483, 461748001LEFT, BY RON GALELLA/WIREIMAGE; RIGHT, BY ALBERTO ROVERI/MONADADORI PORFOL/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEDURG WEDNDAY’S EPISO OF AMERIN CRIME STORY, “DON’T ASK DON’T TELL,” GIANNI VERSACE DO SOMETHG CREDIBLY BRAVE, PECIALLY FOR THE FACE OF A LUCRATIVE FASHN BRAND THAT POSTS NE-DIG ANNUAL SAL—AND THE LS TOLERANT CULTURAL CLIMATE OF THE 90S: HE OUT AN TERVIEW WH THE ADVOTE, TRODUCG HIS LONGTIME BOYIEND, ANTON D’AMI, TO JOURNALIST BRENDAN LEMON.ON AMERIN CRIME STORY, VERSACE PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDG HIS SEXUALY EVEN AFTER HIS SISTER AND BS PARTNER DONATELLA (PLAYED BY PENELOPE CZ) PLEADS FOR HIM NOT TO—AAID THAT THE REVELATN ULD AFFECT SAL. WHILE ’S IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW WHAT NVERSATNS THE SIBLGS HAD BEHD-THE-SCEN ABOUT GIANNI’S SEXUALY, THE SIGNER’S STATEMENTS THIS REAL-LIFE TERVIEW REMA ON THE RERD.THE ACTUAL TERVIEW WAS TUCKED EP SI THE ADVOTE’S JULY 1995 ISSUE, AND PEGGED TO THE RELEASE OF VERSACE’S BOOK MEN WHOUT TI, WHICH THE SIGNER DITED “TO THE THREE ANTONS OF MY LIFE: MY FATHER, ANTON D’AMI, [AND] MY NEPHEW.”BRENDAN LEMON SCRIBED MEETG VERSACE AND D’AMI EARLIER THAT YEAR SI A ST. REGIS HOTEL SUE MANHATTAN, AND BEGAN THE TERVIEW BY ASKG VERSACE TO SCRIBE HIS THREE DITE.“VERSACE LLS ANTON D’AMI SIMPLY ‘MY PANN,’ AND FOR ONCE, THE PHRASE NNOT NOT SOME JAM-IAN SPSTER BEG TNDLED AROUND EUROPE BY A NIECE OR SOME PHEMISM BTOWED BY NEW YORK TIM OBUARY WRERS BUT A GENUE TERM OF ENARMENT,” WROTE LEMON, WHO ADD THAT D’AMI SAT “ ON THE TERVIEW AND CHIP[PED] THE OCSNAL WELL-RMED MENT.”LEMON WENT ON TO PORTRAY D’AMI AS A PARTNER BOTH THE PERSONAL AND PROFSNAL SENSE—LLG HIM “A HIGHER-UP THE VERSACE EMPIRE (WHOSE VAR L OF MENSWEAR, WOMENSWEAR, UTURE, AGRANC AND LICENSE HAD BED SAL OF MORE THAN $650 LN 1994) AS WELL AS VERSACE’S TIMATE FOR MORE THAN A .”THE ARTICLE SCRIBED THE OVERT SEXUALY OF VERSACE’S SIGNS AND ADVERTISG MPAIGNS, AND QUOTED RICHARD MART, CURATOR OF THE COSTUME INSTUTE AT THE METROPOLAN MM OF ART NEW YORK CY, AS SAYG, “THERE IS NO QUTN THAT VERSACE’S OWN OUT GAY INTY HAS BEEN A PART OF THIS WORK. HE IS THE TRADN OF THE AVANT-GAR, WHICH MEANS THAT HE IS WILLG TO RISK A LOT. AND HE DON’T N FOR VER WHEN HIS RISKS PROVOKE OUTRAGED RPONSE.”AMERIN CRIME STORY -CREATOR RYAN MURPHY HAS SAID THAT HE WAS EPLY AFFECTED BY VERSACE’S OPENNS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY THIS PARTICULAR TERVIEW.“I REMEMBER BEG SO PROUD AND EXCED WHEN HE DID THAT [G OUT] TERVIEW THE ADVOTE, BEE AT THE TIME THERE WASN’T REALLY A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WERE BRAVE ENOUGH TO LIVE THEIR LIFE THE OPEN,” MURPHY TOLD PRS THIS SUMMER.RICKY MART, WHO PLAYS D’AMI THE SERI, HAS ALSO SPOKEN ABOUT THE SIGNIFINCE OF THE SCENE FOR HIM.“I’M A GAY MAN THAT LIVED THE CLOSET FOR MANY YEARS. TO SEE THE PROCS OF GIANNI ACTUALLY G OUT AND STG DOWN ONT OF A JOURNALIST TO TALK ABOUT HIS REALY IS SOMETHG THAT MOVED ME MANY WAYS,” MART TOLD US WEEKLY. “THE FACT THAT THEY ULDN’T BE AS OPEN AS I AM RIGHT NOW WH MY RELATNSHIP IS SOMETHG THAT REALLY TRAT ME.”IN “DON’T ASK DON’T TELL,” VERSACE’S BOLD G OUT THE ADVOTE IS SHOWN NTRAST TO JEFEY TRAIL’S TERVIEW WH THE CBS NEWSMAGAZE 48 HOURS SEGMENT. ACTOR FN WTROCK TOLD VANY FAIR’S STILL WATCHG PODST THAT ORR TO GET TO THE MDSET OF PLAYG ANDREW CUNANAN’S FIRST VICTIM, HE WATCHED THE FOOTAGE ON REPEAT: “THAT WAS MY BIBLE. I WOULD WATCH THAT AND LISTEN TO THAT EVERY DAY.” YOU N WATCH AN EXCERPT OF THAT FOOTAGE HERE:TO FD OUT MORE ABOUT THE TE STORY OF VERSACE, CUNANAN, TRAIL, AND MORE YOU N LISTEN TO THE FULL TERVIEW WH WTROCK—AS WELL AS PAST GUTS MREEN ORTH, RICKY MART, MAX GREENFIELD, JUDH LIGHT, CODY FERN, AND WRER TOM ROB SMH—BY SUBSCRIBG TO STILL WATCHG: VERSACE ON APPLE PODSTS OR YOUR PODST APP OF CHOICE. NEW EPISOS OF THE PODST AIR EVERY WEDNDAY NIGHT.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHZENDAYA PAYS TRIBUTE TO “BROTHER” ANG CLOUD: “I’LL CHERISH EVERY MOMENT”BY SAVANNAH WALSHFRAN DRCHER PREDICTS 6 MORE MONTHS OF ACTORS STRIKE: “WE’RE REALLY IT TO W IT”BY SAVANNAH WALSHVERSACE’S FIRST SHOW AFTER GIANNI VERSACE’S DEATH1 / 7CHEVRONCHEVRONBY KEN TOWNER/EVENG STANDARD/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK.NAOMI CAMPBELLJULIE MILLER

Gianni Versace was openly gay, and bee that was somethg most of the prs believed to be a flaw, they did their bt to bsh over . Today In Gay History: Versace's Murr.

DID GIANNI VERSACE ACTUALLY ADM HE WAS GAY TO "THE ADVOTE?" Y, AND 'S SOMETHG RYAN MURPHY GREATLY ADMIR

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”The article scribed the overt sexualy of Versace’s signs and advertisg mpaigns, and quoted Richard Mart, curator of the Costume Instute at the Metropolan Mm of Art New York Cy, as sayg, “There is no qutn that Versace’s own out gay inty has been a part of this work. “I’m a gay man that lived the closet for many years. He was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugiv list, the subject of a natnal manhunt, and was hidg out Miami Beach’s gay scene at the time he killed Versace.

The California native, who uld speak two languag, dropped out of llege and fund his liftyle thanks to relatnships wh olr, wealthier gay men, feral vtigatns found. Feral vtigators believed Cunanan may have been targetg gay men. Lemon ntuó retratando a D’Ami o un pañero tanto en lo personal o en lo profnal, scribiéndolo o un superr en el imper Versace (cuyas líneas hombre, mujer, stura, agancias y licencias tuvieron unas ventas badas 650 lon en 1994) así o un íntimo Versace por más una dé artículo scribía la públi sexualidad los diseños Versace y s mpañas publicarias, y caba Richard Mart, curator l Costume Instute l Met en Nueva York, que cía: “No hay nguna duda que la propia intidad gay Versace ha sido parte su trabajo.

WAS GIANNI VERSACE GAY

“Recuerdo sentirme ulloso y entiasmado cuando él d a entrevista en The Advote, porque en e momento no había realmente mucha gente lo suficientemente valiente o para vivir su vida fuera l armar”, le dijo Murphy a la prensa en verano Mart, que terpreta a D’Ami en la serie, también ha hablado sobre el signifido la cena para él:“Soy un hombre gay que ha vivido en e armar durante muchos años. Immagi alle quali si acpagnarono, po dopo, quelle lla ccia all'uomo, l prunto assasso di Versace, ovvero Andrew Cunanan, gvane di orige sudamerina, gay, aspirante mollo ed rt di lso. Si clu la pista lla ventta ntro il mondo per sere stato ntagiato dall'Aids (l'topsia risntra la sua sieronegativà): si ipotizza che potse avercela n Versace per il suo olo di "ina gay"...

RENTIMIENTO, MENTIRAS Y ADICCN: LOS MISTERSOS MOTIVOS L ASO SERIAL GAYS QUE MATó A GIANNI VERSACE

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D muy joven había vivido abiertamente su homosexualidad. El encuentro que tá probado fue unos años ant en una dis gay en San Francis.

” Gianni was the one who set her on the she was 11, he told her two important thgs: that he was gay and that she need to bee a blon. After beme clear that beg gay was an impediment to havg a life Calabria, Italy, he moved to Milan.

DONATELLA VERSACE HAS LONG BEEN A GAY IN. NOW IT’S OFFICIAL.

She followed him the 1980s, fashn was a bs which gay men uld work wh a fair amount of acceptance. Versace Gianni never me out to Gianni was alive, he and Donatella went to gay nights at big clubs. Versace was Andrew Cunanan’s fifth victimDcribed as “gay gigolo down on his luck” by Vany Fair, 27-year-old Andrew Cunanan was a Filipo Italian Amerin raised San Diego.

Midway through the send episo, gay-htler-turned-serial-killer Andrew Cunanan (Darren Criss) picks up an olr man at the beach.

Andrew’s enunter verts the rol of sex worker and john, addg another layer of queerns to this tale of a gay man who preys on other gay men. “Versace” is g mic to ame s subject as an explicly gay variatn on the Amerin Psycho archetype.

HOW “THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE” US DANCE POP TO CRAFT A GAY AMERIN PSYCHO

While the mic of Amerin Psycho ptur the banaly of Reagan-era palist evil, ’s the female-onted hoe and dance-pop tracks that would’ve played a typil ‘90s gay bar that suffe this season of “Amerin Crime Story. Their appeal the ntext of a gay club the mid-‘90s isn’t hard to grasp: This is the only public place where queer men n exprs their sir whout fear, and the mic heightens that temporary sense of vcibily. As high on his own notoriety as Patrick Bateman was on ivolo bloodshed, Andrew is celebratg the murrs of men—three of them gay—wh an inic gay dis is a ccial difference between the Amerin Psycho approach to mic and the way “Versace” , though.

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) Their songs are jt another blandly sister accsory to Bateman’s vapid existence, like his tanng bed and his embossed, bone-lored bs terpreted by this season’s wrer, Tom Rob Smh, Andrew Cunanan is ls a reflectn of gay culture than a plague on . In that sense, Andrew is the personifitn of society’s homophobia, which he to isolate and manipulate his targets, as well as HIV, which n turn sex adly. In Miami Beach, he his om the FBI pla sight, buyg neon tank tops and Speedos to blend wh the throngs of nocent gay vatners.

Ricky Mart was a closeted 25-year-old Lat sger who had yet to break to the mastream when the openly gay Gianni Versace was shot and killed ont of his Miami home on July 15, 1997.

“The ups and downs, the tratns, the uncertaty, the fear of losg your reer bee you’re gay is somethg that is there. RM: I’m a gay man that lived the closet for many years.