Jeff Garcia: 'I'm Not Gay' - Outsports

Contents:

• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• ¿JEFEY DAHMER ERA GAY Y LA ORIENTACIóN SEXUAL TUVO ALGO QUE VER N S CRíMEN?
• JEFEY DAHMER: EL ASO QUE ECUENTABA LUGAR AMBIENTE GAY PARA ELEGIR A S VíCTIMAS
• IS JEFF BUCKLEY GAY?
• JEFF GARCIA: 'I'M NOT GAY'
• HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
• WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
• JEFF GUARACO, WHO BROUGHT GAY TOURISM TO TELEVISN, DI AT 48
• THE SURPRISG TTH ABOUT THE LIV OF GAY MEN VICTORIAN ENGLAND
• 20-YEAR FLASHBACK: ELLEN DEGENER ME OUT, AND PAVED THE WAY FOR MORE GAY TV ROL

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

As te-crime followers know, Jefey Dahmer was gay, but what may e as a surprise is how his fay learned of his sexualy and what their reactn was based on their nservative valu.

Dahmer me out as gay for the first time to a judge 1989 after he was nvicted of sexual asslt and enticg a child for immoral purpos, acrdg to the Don Davis’ 1992 bgraphy The Milwkee Murrs: Nightmare Apartment 213: the Twisted Te Story of the “Real-life Hannibal Lecter. Dvorchak and Lisa Holewa reported their 1992 book, Milwkee Massacre: Jefey Dahmer and the Milwkee Murrs, that Dahmer’s mother was more tolerant wh him beg gay. The book reported that Dahmer and Joyce had a nversatn over telephone March 1991 where Joyce told her son that she had “no problem acceptg his gayns.

¿JEFEY DAHMER ERA GAY Y LA ORIENTACIóN SEXUAL TUVO ALGO QUE VER N S CRíMEN?

” The book also reported that Lnel, a fundamentalist Christian, often ma negative ments about gay men and lbians throughout Dahmer’s childhood and remaed agast homosexualy even after Dahmer’s trial. ” Lnel also told reporter Stone Phillips at the time that he would have “tried to change” Dahmer if his son had told him he was gay bee he still believed that homosexualy was a s. Though Dahmer hadn’t e out until he was an adult, his attorney claimed his trial 1992 that the serial killer had “disvered and accepted his homosexualy” as an adolcent.

Milwkee Massacre also reported that Dahmer “admted to [him]self he is gay” to his probatn officer 1991 and “told agent that’s the way he is so ‘fuck .

JEFEY DAHMER: EL ASO QUE ECUENTABA LUGAR AMBIENTE GAY PARA ELEGIR A S VíCTIMAS

In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them, ” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.

Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water.

“Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails, ” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns, ” Roth said.

IS JEFF BUCKLEY GAY?

Of urse, other drks e the word “gay, ” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. “La bertura mediáti l so Dahmer tuvo imbrida en una razonamiento sostenida y pleja homofobia al mismo tiempo que negaba activamente cualquier tención y sorpra homofóbi. Las referencias icial a los asatos Dahmer o «exco homosexual» por parte los funcnars públis y la prensa domante fueron enérgimente prottadas por activistas gays y lbianas en Milwkee y en otros lugar, quien señalaron que las accn Dahmer no eran más reprentativamente homosexual que los asatos un diabóli en serie heterosexual.

Los miembros los meds unición rpondieron a las prottas n sorprennte prteza, y el térmo “exco homosexual” pronto se elimó los rm sobre el so. De hecho, los meds parecían tar tan preocupados que s rm no parecieran homofóbis, que todas las referencias a la orientación sexual Dahmer asimismo saparecieron la no parte la bertura l so.

JEFF GARCIA: 'I'M NOT GAY'

En un volumen, «Milwkee Massacre: Jefey Dahmer and the Milwkee Murrs», se rma que Lnel, un cristiano fundamentalista, a menudo hacía entars negativos sobre hombr homosexual y lbianas durante la fancia Dahmer y se mantuvo en ntra la homosexualidad clo luego l discernimiento Dahmer. “La policía, tras tenerlo, lo scribió o un joven tez pálida que se prentó a la vista los agent lloroso y astadizo”, mencna el libro Cróni negra l siglo XX, cro por José María López Ruí elemento muy particular Dahmer fue el ataque perpetuado a 17 hombr jóven, pecífimente aoamerinos y homosexual (o ambas racterístis), pero no solo los mató, so también los gtó.

Algunas ellas fueron menor dieccho años y los ubiba en bar gay y en la 1978 y 1991 Dahmer mató a diecisiete jóven: doce ellos murieron en su partamento y tr en la sa su abuela. Algunas ellas fueron menor dieccho años y los ubiba en bar gay y en la vez que los llevaba a su partamento 924 los mataba, smembraba parte su cuerpo y “lo que ptaba n la Polaroid eran los miembros arrandos quien fueron s víctimas”, mencna el 22 jul 1991 dos agent iban patllando por una zona margal en Milwkee, ahí fue don enntraron a un hombre aoamerino mando y te los llevó a la sa Dahmer, el aso trató excarse n el o alhol y juegos erótis, pero un policía cidió entrar a su sa y vieron las fotografí mismo policía abrió la puerta l reigerador y se d cuenta que lo que taba en las fotos era parte l reigerador: “bezas humanas, manos, pen en una olla, rne humana en el ngelador, tarros n genal en nserva, cloroformo y la que quizá fue la más mabra lección fotografías jamás rnida”, mencna el libro Crímen, los sos más impactant la historia, Nick Yapp. Hujar: © 2022 The Peter Hujar Archive, LLC/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New YorkIn amassg work ma by the mostly overlooked gay artists who lived and died durg the crisis, a global group of llectors is refg what the Wtern non looks llector, who wish to rema anonymo, keeps some of his more explic art the bathroom of his Connecticut home, cludg (middle, om top) McDermott & McGough’s “The Spir of the Htler” (2003) and “Uny Repeated” (1993).

He rejected that part of himself, attemptg to cure, or at least curb, his gayns through therapy and an outsir, Baer entered middle age as a happily married straight man wh a quirky reer path that ma him popular at dner parti: In addn to beg a Harvard-ted doctor, he also wrote and produced h TV shows such as “ER” and “Law & Orr: SVU. Enavorg to make up for lost time, Baer, who had been a sual art llector, started buyg work solely by gay artists, begng wh a lorful 1990 acrylic on paper portra by Don Bachardy of the wrer Pl Mote, whose 1992 g-out memoir, “Beg a Man: Half a Life Story, ” helped Baer do the same. “I don’t know that the world n change for the better except wh stori, ” says Baer, 67, om the apartment he shar wh his hband, the 37-year-old psychologist Brandon Weiss, which overlooks a seclud tangle of gkgo, ailanth and rk tre Central Park known as the Ramble, where gay men have gone cisg sce at least the 1920s.

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT

Much of Baer’s llectn clus subject matter he’d long nsired taboo — maybe distasteful — and which he now displays throughout his home on Manhattan’s Upper Wt Si for the same reason gay bars screen vtage porn: as a way to rve out a space for himself and others like him where tolerance, even acceptance, of queerns isn’t enough. In the rooms, gayns is worshiped, champned, fend and DavisBaer’s tert queer art spans genr and sexual inti, but there’s an emphasis on work by gay men om the early days of the AIDS epimic the 1980s and ’90s, many of whom created relative obscury and have often been fotten, only to be reclaimed recent years by a new generatn of llectors. Has arranged the works wh a curator’s eye, pickg up mon threads among the artists: Wojnarowicz’s and Wong’s tratn over feelgs of isolatn and nfement; how Steers and Hujar uld make even an ailg gay man — pecially an ailg gay man — look like a kg; the special cursy and re wh which othered people saw one another and, one another, themselv.

WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?

At the time, some dienc found pictns of sickns too disturbg to study or hang above a crenza, among them even gay men who need to have their pa unrstood but may not have wanted to live wh nstant remrs of a plague that had fected every aspect of their liv. Others reacted wh homophobic distaste to what they saw as disorrly exprsns of anger and sexual viance an era when the gay male body was largely feared.

JEFF GUARACO, WHO BROUGHT GAY TOURISM TO TELEVISN, DI AT 48

By buyg and biddg on the piec, he and other like-md (not to mentn rich) gay llectors are g their power to sist that stutns and ctn ho rensir art that hasn’t been given s full due.

Through programmg and acquisns, art stutns and blue-chip galleri have the power to anot new stars (like the Pakistani-born gay Amerin pater Salman Toor, 39, whose first major exhibn was at New York’s Whney Mm of Amerin Art 2020) and to remd dienc about tablished on (like the Amerin portraist Alice Neel, whose retrospective at New York’s Metropolan Mm of Art last year revigorated her cultural chet nearly four s after her ath). Elsewhere his 18th-century untry home Connecticut are patgs by the English terdisciplary filmmaker Derek Jarman; a bedsi portra of Hler and the nam of gay men he persecuted durg the Holot by McDermott & McGough, an art duo who lived and drsed throughout much of the 1980s as if were the Victorian Age; and his latt acquisn: a $125, 000 st plaster head by DavisIt’s probably easier to spend so much time the pany of such sad, often nontatnal work — to look at a mournful slow dance between wasted bodi, or a sailor lyg unnsc on a rtroom floor, scen that are reprented the Steers patgs he owns — when you know how much ’s worth. ” Then there was the fact that the largely figurative works had been phed asi by Neo-Geometric Conceptualism, whose rise populary cid wh the epimic: By the mid-80s, the emergg Neo-Geo star Jeff Koons had replaced Wojnarowicz as the artist of the moment — which also meant that gay artists found themselv the impossible posn of havg to make sense of and articulate the trma of their liv, even as people grew disterted.

THE SURPRISG TTH ABOUT THE LIV OF GAY MEN VICTORIAN ENGLAND

’” he 1969, Llie buted his first group exhibn of homoerotic art his SoHo loft; today, the Phall Palace, as ’s bee known, is crammed wh penis: not jt etchgs and patgs by Andy Warhol and Keh Harg and photographs by Stanley Stellar but the shape of salt and pepper shakers, vas, paperweights and bars of soap that were given to him over the s as gifts.

“The love that dare not speak s name now jt won’t shut up, ” he John has been a siarly loud advote for gay men and the preventn and treatment of H. ” Siarly, 2007 an acquisns mtee member balked when the art historian and curator Don Bacigalupi, 62, then the director of the Toledo Mm of Art Oh, petned to purchase s first piece of openly gay art: a 1931 patg by Pl Cadm of his lover and llaborator Jared French lyg bed, a py of Jam Joyce’s “Ulyss” his hand: “It’s a... ”In any se, Anrson is passnate about troducg gay artists to a new dience, as he did his fall 2021 Loewe llectn, when he rporated the New York poet and assemblage artist Joe Braard’s pansy prts to pants and as leather marquetry on handbags.

20-YEAR FLASHBACK: ELLEN DEGENER ME OUT, AND PAVED THE WAY FOR MORE GAY TV ROL

It reassur a new wave of gay artists that their visns of the world are worthy of mm shows, cril dialogue, scholarly wrg and, y, market value they wrtle wh how to articulate the glory and grotquerie of beg gay, particularly unr the threat of regrsive legislatn, the next generatn of artists has hered a tradn of fiance and celebratn that is navigatg differently than s forebears.

And even if only on the nvas, Salman Toor imag a rich, genteel atmosphere which his ethnicy and queerns e together ’s nothg particularly shockg about the piec, although some of them are que explic: Frato’s pictns of gay lovemakg are as timate as Steers’s portras of dyg young men om the 1990s, which themselv treat their subjects wh the same love Lyn had for the male bodybuilrs his black-and-whe photographs om the 1930s and ’40s.

In other words, the work self is no longer taboo, which might be the most outrageo thg about : Art patrons, gay and straight, are fally willg to look. Jeff and his wife, Pam Gay, who serv as York County Coroner, have been married for more than 40 years and have two adult children, Daniel and Tiffany, and three grandchildren.