"Dudley Dursley's Sassy Gay Friend" is a funny AU which portrays a flamboyantly gay Harry Potter who manag (wh the help of M) to form a nnectn …
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- SASSY GAY FRIEND SAV HENRY VIII (VIDEO)
- SASSY GAY FRIEND
- EXCLIVE: BRIAN GALLIVAN ON SASSY GAY FRIEND, MIO, AND STUPID BIATCH
- SUNDAY FUNNI: HENRY VIII MEETS THE “SASSY GAY FRIEND”
- SASSY GAY FRIENDSASSY GAY FRIEND LYRICS
- SASSY GAY FRIEND: CYRANO BERGERACSASSY GAY FRIEND LYRICS
- DENSTCTG THE "SASSY GAY FRIEND"
- HISTORY FUNNY / SASSYGAYFRIEND
- CONTEXT WEBVIO / SASSYGAYFRIEND
- HISTORY WEBVIO / SASSYGAYFRIEND
- INSI HALSTON’S DTCTIVE REAL-LIFE RELATNSHIP WH VICTOR HUGO“THAT VENEZUELAN LL BOY WAS HIS DOWNFALL,” ANDRé LEON TALLEY RECENTLY SAID OF HUGO, WHOSE RELATNSHIP WH THE SIGNER IS CENTRAL TO NETFLIX’S HALSTON. “HE WAS A GRIFTER WHO CLUNG ON LIKE A PARASE, LIKE A BARNACLE ON A SHIP.”BY JULIE MILLERMAY 14, 2021FROM RON GALELLA COLLECTN/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVESOME BLAME SIGNER HALSTON’S EPIC FALL—OM A SUPERSTAR EMPIRE BUILR TO A MAN FIRED OM HIS OWN BRAND—ON DGS, STUD 54 EXCS, AND BAD BS CISNS. OTHERS BLAME VICTOR HUGO, THE VENEZUELAN SEX WORKER HALSTON MET 1972, DATED FOR OVER A , AND FOLLOWED DOWN A PATH OF RECKLS STCTN.HALSTON, THE SUBJECT OF RYAN MURPHY’S EPONYMO NEW LIMED SERI STARRG EWAN MCGREGOR THE TLE ROLE, HAD BOYIENDS BEFORE HUGO. THE MOST NOTABLE OF THEM WAS ED AT (PLAYED ONSCREEN BY SULLIVAN JON), A HANDSOME MENSWEAR BUYER MCGREGOR’S HALSTON PICKS UP WH THE FIRST FIVE MUT OF THE SERI A MEET-CUTE RIPPED ALMOST DIRECTLY OM REAL LIFE. BUT WHEN THAT RELATNSHIP FIZZLED, ACRDG TO SIMPLY HALSTON—THE STEVEN GA BGRAPHY ON WHICH NETFLIX’S SERI IS BASED—THE SIGNER TOOK TO LLG RTS. AS GA WR:HE WOULD PERHAPS ORR THEM BOTH A STEAK AND A BAKED POTATO LIVERED UP, THEN TAKE THEM TO BED AND SHOW THEM THE DOOR. JOE EULA, THE FASHN ILLTRATOR AND ONE OF HALSTON’S CLOST NFIDANTS, TOOK TO LLG THIS PRACTICE “DIAL-A-STEAK, DIAL-A-DICK,” WHICH HALSTON THOUGHT WAS HYSTERILLY FUNNY. ONE NIGHT 1972, THE YOUNG MAN WHO SHOWED UP AT HALSTON’S APARTMENT OM THE LL-BOY SERVICE CHANGED HIS LIFE.THE 24-YEAR-OLD TOLD HALSTON THAT HIS NAME WAS VICTOR HUGO—A PUN ON HIS ANATOMY, RATHER THAN AN HOMAGE TO THE FRENCH WRER AND POET RPONSIBLE FOR L MISéRABL. (“BELIEVE ME, HE WASN’T READG FRENCH LERATURE,” SNIPED FORMER VOGUE EDOR ANDRé LEON TALLEY A RECENT TERVIEW WH THE NEW YORK TIM.)“IT WAS PURE LT. I THK HALSTON HAD A LIFE THAT WAS BARREN OF ROMANCE AND TENRNS,” GA TOLD VANY FAIR. HALSTON RIVED WARMTH OM HIS IENDSHIPS WH WOMEN LIKE LIZA MNELLI AND ELSA PERETTI; HIS ATTRACTN TO HUGO, GA THEORIZED TO LOGO, WAS MORE PLITED. “HALSTON LIKED BEG HUIATED AND HAVG THE SHOCK VALUE OF HAVG VICTOR AROUND,” HE SAID. “IT WAS A WHOLE OTHER SI TO HALSTON…. HALSTON LIKED TO BE ON THE SHOCKG END OF THGS. VICTOR WOULD SHOW UP AT STUD 54 WEARG A HOSE OVER HIS DICK. AND HE PISSED AND ME ON NVAS FOR ANDY WARHOL…. VICTOR ALSO END UP BEG ILL AND HAD NO RPECT FOR ANYTHG. HE THOUGHT HE WAS UNTOUCHABLE.”THOUGH HALSTON ULD BE LD, CUTTG, AND IMPER LATER HIS REER, HUGO—A BRASH, ENTLED ER AND WARHOL ENTOURAGE FIGURE—PROVED TO BE HALSTON’S KRYPTONE. “HE ULDN’T GET RID OF HIM,” GA TOLD V.F. “AND BELIEVE ME, VICTOR WOULDN’T LET HIM GO.”THE YEAR AFTER HALSTON MET HUGO, THE SIGNER WAS ARGUABLY AT THE TOP OF HIS REER—GROSSG NEARLY $30 LN RETAIL SAL, HAVG AMASSED THREE PRTIG COTY AWARDS (A FASHN WORLD PRECSOR TO THE CFDA AWARDS), AND BEG EMED “ONE OF THE GREATS” BY WOMEN’S WEAR. “HALSTON’S MONEY AND HUGO’S APPETE FOR EXCS MA THE PAIR AN ACCINT WAG TO HAPPEN,” MED TELEGRAPH A RETROSPECTIVE PUBLISHED 2001.HALSTON MOVED HUGO TO HIS HOME, PUT HIM ON THE PANY PAYROLL, AND EVENTUALLY LET HIS BOYIEND DRS THE WDOWS OF HIS BOUTIQUE—EVEN THOUGH HALSTON’S PREV BOYIEND, AT, WAS ALREADY DOG THAT JOB. THE NFLICT BETWEEN THEM ME TO A HEAD DURG THE CHRISTMAS SEASON OF 1973, WHEN HALSTON HAD HUGO RERATE A WDOW AT HAD SIGNED.“I WAS FIRED. CHRISTMAS EVE, THANK YOU—OUT THE DOOR, NO SEVERANCE, NOTHG,” AT TOLD GA, REVEALG THAT HE NEVER SAW THE SIGNER AGA.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSONSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHIN THE MID-’70S, HALSTON WAS UNR TREMENDO PRSURE, AS HIS EMPIRE EXPAND TO AGRANCE, LUGGAGE, MENSWEAR, LGERIE, AND HANDBAGS. HE WAS PRIMED FOR A RELEASE VALVE WHEN STUD 54 OPENED 1977—AND HALSTON JUMPED HEADFIRST TO THE NEW VENUE, CHANGG HIS OFFICE HOURS TO TER TO HIS PARTYG SCHLE AND SUPPORTG HUGO AS HE PLAYED HOST TO LAVISH AFTER-PARTI AT HALSTON’S UPPER EAST SI TOWNHOME. THE PARTI, ACRDG TO THE NEW YORK POST, FEATURED “MAN-ON-MAN I LATE TO THE NIGHT [THAT ANDY] WARHOL ENJOYED PHOTOGRAPHG OM THE SIL.” AS PUBLICIST R. COURI HAY TOLD THE POST, “VICTOR HAD THE KEYS TO THE SAFE WH THE E.”“VICTOR WAS A STCTIVE FORCE,” SAID LONGTIME VANY FAIR SPECIAL RRPONNT BOB COLACELLO 2019’S HALSTON DOCUMENTARY. “ANDY DID VICTOR’S PORTRAS. HE DID TWO. ONE DAY HE SHOWS UP, AND THE PATG IS PLETELY VERED WH GRAFFI. [VICTOR] HAD PATED OVER THEM, THKG THAT THIS WAS TAKG ANDY’S ART TO ANOTHER LEVEL. AND ANDY WAS REALLY MAD. HE WAS LIKE, ‘DON’T THK I’M DOG NEW ON, VICTOR.’”WHEN HALSTON AND HUGO STOPPED SLEEPG TOGETHER, THE FASHN SIGNER TURNED TO OTHER RTS LIKE ROBERT ROGERS, “AN UNASSUMG BLACK MAN OF MEDIUM HEIGHT AND BUILD HIS LATE TWENTI WHO WAS ONE OF MANHATTAN’S MOST SUCCSFUL MALE PROSTUT,” WROTE GA.BUT HALSTON ULD NOT PLETELY CUT OFF HIS FORMER PARTNER—EVEN WHEN HUGO BEGAN STEALG OM HIM TO FUND HIS DG HAB. “HE STOLE SOME WARHOLS, BUT HE ALSO TOOK THE STERLG SILVER ELSA PERETTI NDLTICKS ON THE TABLE,” GA TOLD V.F., REVEALG THAT HALSTON NTUED TO BANKROLL HUGO’S LIFTYLE AFTER THEY BROKE UP—PAYG FOR HIS HOG AND WRG HIM CHECKS.“THE PERSON THAT HALSTON LOVED, MORE THAN HIS OWN LIFE, WAS VICTOR,” HALSTON’S PERSONAL ASSISTANT PECH VALLS TOLD GA. HALSTON’S IEND SASSY JOHNSON HAD ANOTHER TAKE ON THE RELATNSHIP.“MY THEORY HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT HALSTON ME OM AN ALHOLIC FAY, THAT HIS FATHER HAD A PROBLEM,” SAID JOHNSON 2019’S HALSTON. “AND THAT HALSTON RECREATED HIS FAY LIFE WH VICTOR AS THE DYSFUNCTNAL PERSON WHO IS NSTANTLY GOG TO KEEP EVERYTHG OFF BALANCE.”“I THK THAT’S PROBABLY A VERY GOOD ANALYSIS,” SAID GA, EXPLAG THAT HALSTON’S FATHER DID “PRETTY HORRIBLE THGS” TO THE FAY WHEN THEY WERE GROWG UP EVANSVILLE, INDIANA—CLUDG TO HALSTON’S SISTER AND BROTHER. “AND THEY WEREN’T GAY. I THK HALSTON HAD A VERY, VERY, VERY TOUGH TIME. I N’T IMAGE WHAT WAS LIKE FOR A GAY LTLE BOY TO BE THERE.”AFTER HALSTON WAS DIAGNOSED WH HIV 1988, HE MOVED TO SAN FRANCIS TO BE CLOSER TO HIS FAY—AND TO GET AWAY OM HUGO. HALSTON’S NIECE LLEY FROWICK TOLD PEOPLE THAT HALSTON’S FAL YEARS, “HE TOLERATED [HUGO], BUT HE WAS TROUBLE.”EVEN AFTER HALSTON’S 1990 ATH, HUGO NTUED TO TRY TO MAKE MONEY OFF THE SIGNER, ACRDG TO GA. “VICTOR ABSOLUTELY WOULD NOT GIVE ME AN TERVIEW UNLS I PAID HIM. ALL THE MONEY JT WENT UP HIS NOSE AND ON CRAZY SPENDG AND STCTIVE STUFF.”MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSONSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHTHREE S LATER, HALSTON’S IENDS STILL POT FGERS AT HUGO FOR HIS NEGATIVE FLUENCE ON THE SIGNER.“THAT VENEZUELAN LL BOY WAS HIS DOWNFALL,” LONGTIME TALLEY TOLD THE NEW YORK TIM. “HE WAS A GRIFTER WHO CLUNG ON LIKE A PARASE, LIKE A BARNACLE ON A SHIP.”AND 2019’S HALSTON DOCUMENTARY, FILMMAKER FRéDéRIC TCHENG ASKED THE SIGNER’S ILLTRATOR AND NFIDANT JOE EULA FOR HIS ANALYSIS OF THE STCTIVE RELATNSHIP. EULA MCED NO WORDS.“WHY DID HALSTON PUT UP WH VICTOR?” TCHENG ASKS.“BEE HE WAS LOVE WH HIM,” EULA REPLI.“WHEN DID FALL APART?” TCHENG PRS.“THE DAY THEY MET,” EULA RPONDS, WHOUT HATN.IN MAKG NETFLIX’S HALSTON, THOUGH, THE SERI CREATORS WANTED TO MAKE HUGO (PLAYED BY GIAN FRAN RODRIGUEZ) A FULLY DIMENSNAL CHARACTER—AND DIRECTOR/EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DANIEL MAHAN WENT TO GREAT LENGTHS TO UNRSTAND HIM.“VICTOR WAS THE HARST CHARACTER TO WRE BEE HE WAS A DISPTOR,” MAHAN TOLD VANY FAIR, REVEALG THAT HE SPOKE TO FASHN SIGNER AND HALSTON PROTéGé NAEEM KHAN BEFORE FILMG. KHAN TOLD HIM THAT “SPE ALL OF HIS SANY AND THE DISPTN, VICTOR WAS A PERSON WHO ULD MAKE YOU SEE THGS A DIFFERENT WAY.”“BEE HALSTON AND HUGO MET THIS TRANSACTNAL WAY, WHEN VICTOR WAS A HTLER, AT LEAST OUR STORY, THE DYNAMIC IS THAT HALSTON IS NEVER SURE WHETHER HE N FULLY TST VICTOR,” EXPLAED MAHAN. “HE DON’T KNOW WHETHER VICTOR REALLY LOV HIM, OR WHETHER HE’S THERE FOR THE PRIVILEGE AND THE MONEY. AND I THK VICTOR IS NOT SURE WHETHER HALSTON REALLY LOV HIM BEE HE MET HIM AS A PROSTUTE. I THK ’S THIS REALLY LOAD SORT OF DYNAMIC BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM.”“I THK VICTOR GOT SO EP TO HIS ADDICTN AND SO OVERWHELMED AND DNK OFF THE ATTENTN THEY WERE GETTG THAT HE BEME A REALLY STCTIVE FORCE,” NTUED MAHAN. “I THK MAYBE VICTOR, THE BEGNG, WAS THE PERSON WHO ULD TELL HALSTON THE TTH ABOUT THGS. BUT THEN THAT BEME SOMETHG MORE MANIPULATIVE. THEIR RELATNSHIP IS A SAD STORY. BUT I THK WE KD OF TRY TO PTURE THE EXCEMENT OF AND THE DANGER OF , AND THEN FALLY THE DYSFUNCTN OF .”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR — AFTER JEN SHAH’S ARRT, HOW CAN WE KEEP ENJOYG REAL HOEWIV?— BARRY JENKS ON BRGG THE UNRGROUND RAILROAD TO TV— HOW SWIMMG WH SHARKS TRIED TO WARN US ABOUT STT RUD— QUIL LEMONS’S 2021 VANY FAIR OSR PORTRAS— ANDREW MCCARTHY ON PRETTY PK AND THE BRAT PACK— THE 2021 OSR CEREMONY WAS A NOBLE, DOOMED EXPERIMENT— ELLT PAGE FALLY FEELS “ABLE TO JT EXIST”— FROM THE ARCHIVE: THE UNSKABLE JENNIFER ANISTON— NOT A SUBSCRIBER? JO VANY FAIR TO RECEIVE FULL ACCS TO AND THE PLETE ONLE ARCHIVE NOW.JULIE MILLER
- 1. SASSY GAY FRIEND
SASSY GAY FRIEND SAV HENRY VIII (VIDEO)
WATCH: Sassy Gay Friend Sav Henry VIII * sassy gay friend henry *
The one and only Sassy Gay Friend is back wh another hilar vio, and this time his damsel--distrs is actually Kg Henry VIII (and the wife he's about to behead), so SGF has a fancy sponsor now which means his vios are drippg wh product placement, but you have to adm he go about a funny way.
SASSY GAY FRIEND
A page for scribg Funny: Sassy Gay Friend. Macbeth: Also: The iend potg out the weirdns of the impet for all this. Romeo and Juliet: His … * sassy gay friend henry *
"In short, we still love some Sassy Gay Friend. Sassy Gay Friend: Mmm, yeah, kd of. Lady Macbeth: (gasps)Sassy Gay Friend: Yeah.
He heard om the three wch this Gay Friend: Okay, first of all, stop gettg your polil news om crazy old women who live the bh.
Romeo and Juliet:Sassy Gay Friend: "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?
EXCLIVE: BRIAN GALLIVAN ON SASSY GAY FRIEND, MIO, AND STUPID BIATCH
Sassy Gay Friend: Hamlet (2010) st and crew creds, cludg actors, actrs, directors, wrers and more. * sassy gay friend henry *
" His reactn to Juliet tellg him she slept wh Gay Friend:.. This fate uld've been avoid, if he'd had a Sassy Gay (mutters to Christian) My love grows.
SUNDAY FUNNI: HENRY VIII MEETS THE “SASSY GAY FRIEND”
* sassy gay friend henry *
Sassy Gay Friend: (appears out of nowhere) What, what, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? Sassy Gay Friend: Y!
SASSY GAY FRIENDSASSY GAY FRIEND LYRICS
Lyrics, Meang & Vios: Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, Eve, Othello, The Givg Tree, Hamlet #ProudToLove, Great Expectatns, Henry the VIII, SASSY GAY FRIEND: CYRANO BERGERAC, Black Swan, Way Off Base, TMI About Relatnships, Ophelia, Sassy Gay Friend: * sassy gay friend henry *
" Great Expectatns:Sassy Gay Friend: Why would you want to remember the worst moment of your life? Sassy Gay Friend: "Ew" is right. Havisham: I've been so Gay Friend: Well, you have been a total character.
Sassy Gay Friend: No. And also:Sassy Gay Friend: Buy some nail clippers! Sassy Gay Friend: THEY ARE NINETY-NINE CENTS AT CVS!!
SASSY GAY FRIEND: CYRANO BERGERACSASSY GAY FRIEND LYRICS
David Levy, wrg for , recently challenged at JWA to ment on the genr/sexualy dynamic of the Send Cy's new vio seri, "Sassy Gay Friend." He wrote: There's a long tradn Judaism of imagg different versns of our favore stori, om rabbic midrash to ntemporary novels. Comedy troupe The Send Cy has thrown their hat to the rg this week wh a new Youtube vio their "Sassy Gay Friend" seri. * sassy gay friend henry *
The Givg Tree:Givg Tree: He need my branch to make a Gay Friend: Yeah, and the guy om Silence of the Lambs need fat girl sk to make a flh su. And then:Sassy Gay Friend: You're gonna end up a stump!
And he'll e back old and Gay Friend: A-And what?
DENSTCTG THE "SASSY GAY FRIEND"
Sassy gay iends are really good at preventg women om makg dumb cisns, typilly when volv men and relatnships. They excel at this bee they have the reasonable tellect of a male bed wh the emotnal drive of a woman. This bridgg gap n also work the reverse way by helpg men make better cisns wh women. The Sassy Gay Friend was ma popular by the popular Send Cy Network sk found on YouTube." name="Dcriptn" property="og:scriptn * sassy gay friend henry *
Sassy Gay Friend[5] is a YouTube web seri created 2010 by the onle team of the Chigo-based improv pany The Send Cy. The seri starred actor Brian Gallivan[6] as the tular character who viss famo characters om lerature and film, as well as a handful of historil figur, to give them advice om the perspective of a over-the-top stereotypil homosexual male. Brian Gallivan created the Sassy Gay Friend character 2004 while performg The Send Cy's mastage show Red Sre.
[7] The first Sassy Gay Friend YouTube vio was upload on Febary 17th, 2010 to the Send Cy's channel, pictg the character visg Ophelia om William Shakpeare's Hamlet right before she ms suici. [13] In April, Salon[14] qutned whether the seri was satire or rercg the cliche that all gay men are flamboyant.
HISTORY FUNNY / SASSYGAYFRIEND
Throughout the rt of 2010, Sassy Gay Friend vios appeared on Paste Magaze[15], the Huffgton Post[16], Entertament Weekly[17], the New York Post[18] and Trendhunter. In Febary 2011, Sassy Gay Friend beme the spokperson for MiO[23], a liquid water enhancer product, dog a handful of man on the street terview vios (shown below) for the brand.
That year, Sassy Gay Friend vios were featured on Time NewsFeed[20], Urlque[21] and Refery29. “Sassy Gay Friend” Brian Gallivan spoke to Monster and Crics about his MiO fueled new-found celebry.
The Send Cy h seri, “Sassy Gay Friend, ” featur Brian Gallivan, who b clever embedd advertisg wh hilar rants that tackle the bereft and befuddled mains of the Bard.
CONTEXT WEBVIO / SASSYGAYFRIEND
Gallivan’s character, Sassy Gay Friend, pops up as if transported through a time mache to nsole and buck up historil hysteril women who uld have ed some pla old good advice.
MiO, a Kraft foods product, has hched their wagon to “Sassy Gay Friend, ” the seri Gallivan created and produced along wh The Send Cy. M&C: When did Sassy Gay Friend bee this ia/character that you ran wh?
HISTORY WEBVIO / SASSYGAYFRIEND
Brian Gallivan: I first created Sassy Gay Friend 2004 when I was part of the Mastage st at The Send Cy Chigo. And then I did not do very much at all wh Sassy Gay Friend until early 2010 when The Send Cy started their youtube channel, The Send Cy Network.
INSI HALSTON’S DTCTIVE REAL-LIFE RELATNSHIP WH VICTOR HUGO“THAT VENEZUELAN LL BOY WAS HIS DOWNFALL,” ANDRé LEON TALLEY RECENTLY SAID OF HUGO, WHOSE RELATNSHIP WH THE SIGNER IS CENTRAL TO NETFLIX’S HALSTON. “HE WAS A GRIFTER WHO CLUNG ON LIKE A PARASE, LIKE A BARNACLE ON A SHIP.”BY JULIE MILLERMAY 14, 2021FROM RON GALELLA COLLECTN/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVESOME BLAME SIGNER HALSTON’S EPIC FALL—OM A SUPERSTAR EMPIRE BUILR TO A MAN FIRED OM HIS OWN BRAND—ON DGS, STUD 54 EXCS, AND BAD BS CISNS. OTHERS BLAME VICTOR HUGO, THE VENEZUELAN SEX WORKER HALSTON MET 1972, DATED FOR OVER A , AND FOLLOWED DOWN A PATH OF RECKLS STCTN.HALSTON, THE SUBJECT OF RYAN MURPHY’S EPONYMO NEW LIMED SERI STARRG EWAN MCGREGOR THE TLE ROLE, HAD BOYIENDS BEFORE HUGO. THE MOST NOTABLE OF THEM WAS ED AT (PLAYED ONSCREEN BY SULLIVAN JON), A HANDSOME MENSWEAR BUYER MCGREGOR’S HALSTON PICKS UP WH THE FIRST FIVE MUT OF THE SERI A MEET-CUTE RIPPED ALMOST DIRECTLY OM REAL LIFE. BUT WHEN THAT RELATNSHIP FIZZLED, ACRDG TO SIMPLY HALSTON—THE STEVEN GA BGRAPHY ON WHICH NETFLIX’S SERI IS BASED—THE SIGNER TOOK TO LLG RTS. AS GA WR:HE WOULD PERHAPS ORR THEM BOTH A STEAK AND A BAKED POTATO LIVERED UP, THEN TAKE THEM TO BED AND SHOW THEM THE DOOR. JOE EULA, THE FASHN ILLTRATOR AND ONE OF HALSTON’S CLOST NFIDANTS, TOOK TO LLG THIS PRACTICE “DIAL-A-STEAK, DIAL-A-DICK,” WHICH HALSTON THOUGHT WAS HYSTERILLY FUNNY. ONE NIGHT 1972, THE YOUNG MAN WHO SHOWED UP AT HALSTON’S APARTMENT OM THE LL-BOY SERVICE CHANGED HIS LIFE.THE 24-YEAR-OLD TOLD HALSTON THAT HIS NAME WAS VICTOR HUGO—A PUN ON HIS ANATOMY, RATHER THAN AN HOMAGE TO THE FRENCH WRER AND POET RPONSIBLE FOR L MISéRABL. (“BELIEVE ME, HE WASN’T READG FRENCH LERATURE,” SNIPED FORMER VOGUE EDOR ANDRé LEON TALLEY A RECENT TERVIEW WH THE NEW YORK TIM.)“IT WAS PURE LT. I THK HALSTON HAD A LIFE THAT WAS BARREN OF ROMANCE AND TENRNS,” GA TOLD VANY FAIR. HALSTON RIVED WARMTH OM HIS IENDSHIPS WH WOMEN LIKE LIZA MNELLI AND ELSA PERETTI; HIS ATTRACTN TO HUGO, GA THEORIZED TO LOGO, WAS MORE PLITED. “HALSTON LIKED BEG HUIATED AND HAVG THE SHOCK VALUE OF HAVG VICTOR AROUND,” HE SAID. “IT WAS A WHOLE OTHER SI TO HALSTON…. HALSTON LIKED TO BE ON THE SHOCKG END OF THGS. VICTOR WOULD SHOW UP AT STUD 54 WEARG A HOSE OVER HIS DICK. AND HE PISSED AND ME ON NVAS FOR ANDY WARHOL…. VICTOR ALSO END UP BEG ILL AND HAD NO RPECT FOR ANYTHG. HE THOUGHT HE WAS UNTOUCHABLE.”THOUGH HALSTON ULD BE LD, CUTTG, AND IMPER LATER HIS REER, HUGO—A BRASH, ENTLED ER AND WARHOL ENTOURAGE FIGURE—PROVED TO BE HALSTON’S KRYPTONE. “HE ULDN’T GET RID OF HIM,” GA TOLD V.F. “AND BELIEVE ME, VICTOR WOULDN’T LET HIM GO.”THE YEAR AFTER HALSTON MET HUGO, THE SIGNER WAS ARGUABLY AT THE TOP OF HIS REER—GROSSG NEARLY $30 LN RETAIL SAL, HAVG AMASSED THREE PRTIG COTY AWARDS (A FASHN WORLD PRECSOR TO THE CFDA AWARDS), AND BEG EMED “ONE OF THE GREATS” BY WOMEN’S WEAR. “HALSTON’S MONEY AND HUGO’S APPETE FOR EXCS MA THE PAIR AN ACCINT WAG TO HAPPEN,” MED TELEGRAPH A RETROSPECTIVE PUBLISHED 2001.HALSTON MOVED HUGO TO HIS HOME, PUT HIM ON THE PANY PAYROLL, AND EVENTUALLY LET HIS BOYIEND DRS THE WDOWS OF HIS BOUTIQUE—EVEN THOUGH HALSTON’S PREV BOYIEND, AT, WAS ALREADY DOG THAT JOB. THE NFLICT BETWEEN THEM ME TO A HEAD DURG THE CHRISTMAS SEASON OF 1973, WHEN HALSTON HAD HUGO RERATE A WDOW AT HAD SIGNED.“I WAS FIRED. CHRISTMAS EVE, THANK YOU—OUT THE DOOR, NO SEVERANCE, NOTHG,” AT TOLD GA, REVEALG THAT HE NEVER SAW THE SIGNER AGA.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSONSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHIN THE MID-’70S, HALSTON WAS UNR TREMENDO PRSURE, AS HIS EMPIRE EXPAND TO AGRANCE, LUGGAGE, MENSWEAR, LGERIE, AND HANDBAGS. HE WAS PRIMED FOR A RELEASE VALVE WHEN STUD 54 OPENED 1977—AND HALSTON JUMPED HEADFIRST TO THE NEW VENUE, CHANGG HIS OFFICE HOURS TO TER TO HIS PARTYG SCHLE AND SUPPORTG HUGO AS HE PLAYED HOST TO LAVISH AFTER-PARTI AT HALSTON’S UPPER EAST SI TOWNHOME. THE PARTI, ACRDG TO THE NEW YORK POST, FEATURED “MAN-ON-MAN I LATE TO THE NIGHT [THAT ANDY] WARHOL ENJOYED PHOTOGRAPHG OM THE SIL.” AS PUBLICIST R. COURI HAY TOLD THE POST, “VICTOR HAD THE KEYS TO THE SAFE WH THE E.”“VICTOR WAS A STCTIVE FORCE,” SAID LONGTIME VANY FAIR SPECIAL RRPONNT BOB COLACELLO 2019’S HALSTON DOCUMENTARY. “ANDY DID VICTOR’S PORTRAS. HE DID TWO. ONE DAY HE SHOWS UP, AND THE PATG IS PLETELY VERED WH GRAFFI. [VICTOR] HAD PATED OVER THEM, THKG THAT THIS WAS TAKG ANDY’S ART TO ANOTHER LEVEL. AND ANDY WAS REALLY MAD. HE WAS LIKE, ‘DON’T THK I’M DOG NEW ON, VICTOR.’”WHEN HALSTON AND HUGO STOPPED SLEEPG TOGETHER, THE FASHN SIGNER TURNED TO OTHER RTS LIKE ROBERT ROGERS, “AN UNASSUMG BLACK MAN OF MEDIUM HEIGHT AND BUILD HIS LATE TWENTI WHO WAS ONE OF MANHATTAN’S MOST SUCCSFUL MALE PROSTUT,” WROTE GA.BUT HALSTON ULD NOT PLETELY CUT OFF HIS FORMER PARTNER—EVEN WHEN HUGO BEGAN STEALG OM HIM TO FUND HIS DG HAB. “HE STOLE SOME WARHOLS, BUT HE ALSO TOOK THE STERLG SILVER ELSA PERETTI NDLTICKS ON THE TABLE,” GA TOLD V.F., REVEALG THAT HALSTON NTUED TO BANKROLL HUGO’S LIFTYLE AFTER THEY BROKE UP—PAYG FOR HIS HOG AND WRG HIM CHECKS.“THE PERSON THAT HALSTON LOVED, MORE THAN HIS OWN LIFE, WAS VICTOR,” HALSTON’S PERSONAL ASSISTANT PECH VALLS TOLD GA. HALSTON’S IEND SASSY JOHNSON HAD ANOTHER TAKE ON THE RELATNSHIP.“MY THEORY HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT HALSTON ME OM AN ALHOLIC FAY, THAT HIS FATHER HAD A PROBLEM,” SAID JOHNSON 2019’S HALSTON. “AND THAT HALSTON RECREATED HIS FAY LIFE WH VICTOR AS THE DYSFUNCTNAL PERSON WHO IS NSTANTLY GOG TO KEEP EVERYTHG OFF BALANCE.”“I THK THAT’S PROBABLY A VERY GOOD ANALYSIS,” SAID GA, EXPLAG THAT HALSTON’S FATHER DID “PRETTY HORRIBLE THGS” TO THE FAY WHEN THEY WERE GROWG UP EVANSVILLE, INDIANA—CLUDG TO HALSTON’S SISTER AND BROTHER. “AND THEY WEREN’T GAY. I THK HALSTON HAD A VERY, VERY, VERY TOUGH TIME. I N’T IMAGE WHAT WAS LIKE FOR A GAY LTLE BOY TO BE THERE.”AFTER HALSTON WAS DIAGNOSED WH HIV 1988, HE MOVED TO SAN FRANCIS TO BE CLOSER TO HIS FAY—AND TO GET AWAY OM HUGO. HALSTON’S NIECE LLEY FROWICK TOLD PEOPLE THAT HALSTON’S FAL YEARS, “HE TOLERATED [HUGO], BUT HE WAS TROUBLE.”EVEN AFTER HALSTON’S 1990 ATH, HUGO NTUED TO TRY TO MAKE MONEY OFF THE SIGNER, ACRDG TO GA. “VICTOR ABSOLUTELY WOULD NOT GIVE ME AN TERVIEW UNLS I PAID HIM. ALL THE MONEY JT WENT UP HIS NOSE AND ON CRAZY SPENDG AND STCTIVE STUFF.”MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSONSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHTHREE S LATER, HALSTON’S IENDS STILL POT FGERS AT HUGO FOR HIS NEGATIVE FLUENCE ON THE SIGNER.“THAT VENEZUELAN LL BOY WAS HIS DOWNFALL,” LONGTIME TALLEY TOLD THE NEW YORK TIM. “HE WAS A GRIFTER WHO CLUNG ON LIKE A PARASE, LIKE A BARNACLE ON A SHIP.”AND 2019’S HALSTON DOCUMENTARY, FILMMAKER FRéDéRIC TCHENG ASKED THE SIGNER’S ILLTRATOR AND NFIDANT JOE EULA FOR HIS ANALYSIS OF THE STCTIVE RELATNSHIP. EULA MCED NO WORDS.“WHY DID HALSTON PUT UP WH VICTOR?” TCHENG ASKS.“BEE HE WAS LOVE WH HIM,” EULA REPLI.“WHEN DID FALL APART?” TCHENG PRS.“THE DAY THEY MET,” EULA RPONDS, WHOUT HATN.IN MAKG NETFLIX’S HALSTON, THOUGH, THE SERI CREATORS WANTED TO MAKE HUGO (PLAYED BY GIAN FRAN RODRIGUEZ) A FULLY DIMENSNAL CHARACTER—AND DIRECTOR/EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DANIEL MAHAN WENT TO GREAT LENGTHS TO UNRSTAND HIM.“VICTOR WAS THE HARST CHARACTER TO WRE BEE HE WAS A DISPTOR,” MAHAN TOLD VANY FAIR, REVEALG THAT HE SPOKE TO FASHN SIGNER AND HALSTON PROTéGé NAEEM KHAN BEFORE FILMG. KHAN TOLD HIM THAT “SPE ALL OF HIS SANY AND THE DISPTN, VICTOR WAS A PERSON WHO ULD MAKE YOU SEE THGS A DIFFERENT WAY.”“BEE HALSTON AND HUGO MET THIS TRANSACTNAL WAY, WHEN VICTOR WAS A HTLER, AT LEAST OUR STORY, THE DYNAMIC IS THAT HALSTON IS NEVER SURE WHETHER HE N FULLY TST VICTOR,” EXPLAED MAHAN. “HE DON’T KNOW WHETHER VICTOR REALLY LOV HIM, OR WHETHER HE’S THERE FOR THE PRIVILEGE AND THE MONEY. AND I THK VICTOR IS NOT SURE WHETHER HALSTON REALLY LOV HIM BEE HE MET HIM AS A PROSTUTE. I THK ’S THIS REALLY LOAD SORT OF DYNAMIC BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM.”“I THK VICTOR GOT SO EP TO HIS ADDICTN AND SO OVERWHELMED AND DNK OFF THE ATTENTN THEY WERE GETTG THAT HE BEME A REALLY STCTIVE FORCE,” NTUED MAHAN. “I THK MAYBE VICTOR, THE BEGNG, WAS THE PERSON WHO ULD TELL HALSTON THE TTH ABOUT THGS. BUT THEN THAT BEME SOMETHG MORE MANIPULATIVE. THEIR RELATNSHIP IS A SAD STORY. BUT I THK WE KD OF TRY TO PTURE THE EXCEMENT OF AND THE DANGER OF , AND THEN FALLY THE DYSFUNCTN OF .”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR — AFTER JEN SHAH’S ARRT, HOW CAN WE KEEP ENJOYG REAL HOEWIV?— BARRY JENKS ON BRGG THE UNRGROUND RAILROAD TO TV— HOW SWIMMG WH SHARKS TRIED TO WARN US ABOUT STT RUD— QUIL LEMONS’S 2021 VANY FAIR OSR PORTRAS— ANDREW MCCARTHY ON PRETTY PK AND THE BRAT PACK— THE 2021 OSR CEREMONY WAS A NOBLE, DOOMED EXPERIMENT— ELLT PAGE FALLY FEELS “ABLE TO JT EXIST”— FROM THE ARCHIVE: THE UNSKABLE JENNIFER ANISTON— NOT A SUBSCRIBER? JO VANY FAIR TO RECEIVE FULL ACCS TO AND THE PLETE ONLE ARCHIVE NOW.JULIE MILLER
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Sunday Funni: Henry VIII Meets the “Sassy Gay Friend”. Thanks to Send Cy Alumn Brian Gallivan and his Sassy Gay Friend web seri, the works of Shakpeare have never been so lourful or so vibrantly hilar. Wh each vio, Brian re-imag the tragic fat of some of Shakpeare’s (and Wtern lerature’s) most famo ladi as they might have occurred if they had only had a “Sassy Gay Friend” on hand to gui them.
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1. SASSY GAY FRIEND
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