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 POPULARSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNINVERSACE’S FIRST SHOW AFTER GIANNI VERSACE’S DEATH1 / 7CHEVRONCHEVRONBY KEN TOWNER/EVENG STANDARD/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK.NAOMI CAMPBELLJULIE MILLER
• DONATELLA VERSACE HAS LONG BEEN A GAY IN. NOW IT’S OFFICIAL.
• VERSACE: WATCH JEFF TRAIL’S REAL-LIFE INTERVIEW ABOUT BEG GAY THE MILARY“HE CHOSE TO SPEAK TO BEE HE THOUGHT WAS THE RIGHT THG TO DO,” SAID 48 HOURS REPORTER RICHARD SCHLGER.BY JULIE MILLER AND JOANNA ROBSONFEBARY 14, 2018FN WTROCK AS JEFEY TRAIL AMERIN CRIME STORY: THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE.BY RAY MICKSHAW/FX.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEWEDNDAY NIGHT’S EPISO OF THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE: AMERIN CRIME STORY FEATUR TWO VERY DIFFERENT G-OUT SCEN. IN ONE, SET 1995, GIANNI VERSACE OPENLY DISCS HIS SEXUALY WH A REPORTER OM THE ADVOTE, EVEN TRODUCG HIS LONGTIME BOYIEND, ANTON D’AMI, DURG THE TERVIEW. THIS REHG, MEANGFUL MOMENT IS TERCUT WH A SCENE DURG WHICH JEFF TRAIL—AN ENSIGN AND A GULF WAR VETERAN WHO WAS LATER MURRED BY ANDREW CUNANAN—RISKS HIS REER TO PARTICIPATE A SEGMENT FOR CBS NEWSMAGAZE 48 HOURS.REPORTER RICHARD SCHLGER, WHO TERVIEWED THE REAL TRAIL 1993, LATER RELLED THAT THE U.S. NAVAL AMY GRADUATE “CHOSE TO SPEAK TO BEE HE THOUGHT WAS THE RIGHT THG TO DO.”THE SEGMENT CID WH “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL” AND A CHANGE THE POLICY ON GAY PEOPLE SERVG THE ARY.“HE DID THE TERVIEW SILHOUETTE BUT HE WAS STILL TAKG A TREMENDO RISK WH HIS REER,” SAID SCHLGER. “HE HAD ABSOLUTELY NOTHG TO GA BY DOG THE TERVIEW. YET HE TOOK THE RISK AND SPOKE OUT.”TRAIL WARNED SCHLGER, “YOU’RE GOG TO WEAKEN OUR NATNAL FENSE IF YOU REMOVE GAYS OM THE ARY. AND YOU’LL NEVER BE ABLE TO DO 100 PERCENT, ’S JT WHETHER OR NOT YOU’LL NTUE TO HUNT AND FORCE TO FEAR.”ASKED WHETHER HE FELT FORTABLE SPEAKG OM THE LERAL SHADOWS TO PROTECT HIS INTY, TRAIL SAID, “THERE IS NOTHG I WOULD LIKE MORE THAN TO BE L UP [HERE] AND TELL YOU WHO I AM AND SHOW YOU WHO I AM. BUT I AM NOT ALLOWED TO DO THAT. IT’S [ONLY] FORTABLE FOR ME BEE I KNOW I WILL BE ABLE TO NTUE TO SERVE MY UNTRY AND DO MY JOB AND DO RIGHT. THAT’S WHAT I RE ABOUT MOST.”TO PREPARE TO PLAY TRAIL ON AMERIN CRIME STORY, ACTOR FN WTROCK TOLD VANY FAIR’S STILL WATCHG PODST THAT HE WATCHED FOOTAGE OM THE 48 HOURS SPECIAL ON REPEAT: “THAT WAS MY BIBLE. I WOULD WATCH THAT AND LISTEN TO THAT EVERY DAY.”WTROCK SAID THAT WHEN HE FIRST READ THE SCRIPTS FOR THE SERI THE SUMMER OF 2017, HE THOUGHT THAT “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL” WAS SUCH A “DATED” NCEPT.“I DON’T KNOW IF PEOPLE ARE GOG TO BE ABLE TO RELATE TO THAT,” WTROCK REMEMBERED THKG. “THEN A WEEK LATER THERE WAS THE TRANSGENR ARY TMP BAN . . . SUDNLY I THOUGHT, OH WOW. HOW MANY STEPS WE TAKE FORWARD AND HOW MANY WE TAKE BACK. SO SUDNLY I WAS EXAMG THE WHOLE STORY THAT WAY. HOW RELEVANT IS THIS STILL? SADLY, SO MUCH OF IS STILL RELEVANT.”WTROCK, WHO IS NOT GAY HIMSELF, SAID THAT HE PREPARED FOR THE ROLE BY SPEAKG TO GAY MEN WHO WERE “ THEIR FORTI OR FIFTI AND LIVED THROUGH THIS PERD WHEN THEY WEREN’T [OUT].” ULTIMATELY THOUGH, WTROCK WAS STCK BY HOW MUCH HE HAD MON WH TRAIL: “BIS MY SEXUALY, I ULD BE JEFF TRAIL. THERE’S VERY LTLE, I FOUND, THAT SEPARAT THAT WAY.”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 POPULARSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNINMEGHAN MARKLE’S ROYAL ENGAGEMENT STYLE1 / 19CHEVRONCHEVRONBY SAMIR HSE/WIREIMAGE.LONDON, APRIL 25JACKET AND DRS BY EIA WICKSTEAD, HAT BY PHILIP TREACY, BAG BY JIMMY CHOO.JULIE MILLER
• DONATELLA VERSACE IS NOW OFFICIALLY A GAY IN
• ‘VERSACE’ STARS: ANTI-GAY BIAS LED TO SIGNER’S ATH

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 POPULARSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNINVERSACE’S FIRST SHOW AFTER GIANNI VERSACE’S DEATH1 / 7CHEVRONCHEVRONBY KEN TOWNER/EVENG STANDARD/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK.NAOMI CAMPBELLJULIE MILLER

”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.

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

“I’m a gay man that lived the closet for many years. ” 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. 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: WATCH JEFF TRAIL’S REAL-LIFE INTERVIEW ABOUT BEG GAY THE MILARY“HE CHOSE TO SPEAK TO BEE HE THOUGHT WAS THE RIGHT THG TO DO,” SAID 48 HOURS REPORTER RICHARD SCHLGER.BY JULIE MILLER AND JOANNA ROBSONFEBARY 14, 2018FN WTROCK AS JEFEY TRAIL AMERIN CRIME STORY: THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE.BY RAY MICKSHAW/FX.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEWEDNDAY NIGHT’S EPISO OF THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE: AMERIN CRIME STORY FEATUR TWO VERY DIFFERENT G-OUT SCEN. IN ONE, SET 1995, GIANNI VERSACE OPENLY DISCS HIS SEXUALY WH A REPORTER OM THE ADVOTE, EVEN TRODUCG HIS LONGTIME BOYIEND, ANTON D’AMI, DURG THE TERVIEW. THIS REHG, MEANGFUL MOMENT IS TERCUT WH A SCENE DURG WHICH JEFF TRAIL—AN ENSIGN AND A GULF WAR VETERAN WHO WAS LATER MURRED BY ANDREW CUNANAN—RISKS HIS REER TO PARTICIPATE A SEGMENT FOR CBS NEWSMAGAZE 48 HOURS.REPORTER RICHARD SCHLGER, WHO TERVIEWED THE REAL TRAIL 1993, LATER RELLED THAT THE U.S. NAVAL AMY GRADUATE “CHOSE TO SPEAK TO BEE HE THOUGHT WAS THE RIGHT THG TO DO.”THE SEGMENT CID WH “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL” AND A CHANGE THE POLICY ON GAY PEOPLE SERVG THE ARY.“HE DID THE TERVIEW SILHOUETTE BUT HE WAS STILL TAKG A TREMENDO RISK WH HIS REER,” SAID SCHLGER. “HE HAD ABSOLUTELY NOTHG TO GA BY DOG THE TERVIEW. YET HE TOOK THE RISK AND SPOKE OUT.”TRAIL WARNED SCHLGER, “YOU’RE GOG TO WEAKEN OUR NATNAL FENSE IF YOU REMOVE GAYS OM THE ARY. AND YOU’LL NEVER BE ABLE TO DO 100 PERCENT, ’S JT WHETHER OR NOT YOU’LL NTUE TO HUNT AND FORCE TO FEAR.”ASKED WHETHER HE FELT FORTABLE SPEAKG OM THE LERAL SHADOWS TO PROTECT HIS INTY, TRAIL SAID, “THERE IS NOTHG I WOULD LIKE MORE THAN TO BE L UP [HERE] AND TELL YOU WHO I AM AND SHOW YOU WHO I AM. BUT I AM NOT ALLOWED TO DO THAT. IT’S [ONLY] FORTABLE FOR ME BEE I KNOW I WILL BE ABLE TO NTUE TO SERVE MY UNTRY AND DO MY JOB AND DO RIGHT. THAT’S WHAT I RE ABOUT MOST.”TO PREPARE TO PLAY TRAIL ON AMERIN CRIME STORY, ACTOR FN WTROCK TOLD VANY FAIR’S STILL WATCHG PODST THAT HE WATCHED FOOTAGE OM THE 48 HOURS SPECIAL ON REPEAT: “THAT WAS MY BIBLE. I WOULD WATCH THAT AND LISTEN TO THAT EVERY DAY.”WTROCK SAID THAT WHEN HE FIRST READ THE SCRIPTS FOR THE SERI THE SUMMER OF 2017, HE THOUGHT THAT “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL” WAS SUCH A “DATED” NCEPT.“I DON’T KNOW IF PEOPLE ARE GOG TO BE ABLE TO RELATE TO THAT,” WTROCK REMEMBERED THKG. “THEN A WEEK LATER THERE WAS THE TRANSGENR ARY TMP BAN . . . SUDNLY I THOUGHT, OH WOW. HOW MANY STEPS WE TAKE FORWARD AND HOW MANY WE TAKE BACK. SO SUDNLY I WAS EXAMG THE WHOLE STORY THAT WAY. HOW RELEVANT IS THIS STILL? SADLY, SO MUCH OF IS STILL RELEVANT.”WTROCK, WHO IS NOT GAY HIMSELF, SAID THAT HE PREPARED FOR THE ROLE BY SPEAKG TO GAY MEN WHO WERE “ THEIR FORTI OR FIFTI AND LIVED THROUGH THIS PERD WHEN THEY WEREN’T [OUT].” ULTIMATELY THOUGH, WTROCK WAS STCK BY HOW MUCH HE HAD MON WH TRAIL: “BIS MY SEXUALY, I ULD BE JEFF TRAIL. THERE’S VERY LTLE, I FOUND, THAT SEPARAT THAT WAY.”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 POPULARSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNINMEGHAN MARKLE’S ROYAL ENGAGEMENT STYLE1 / 19CHEVRONCHEVRONBY SAMIR HSE/WIREIMAGE.LONDON, APRIL 25JACKET AND DRS BY EIA WICKSTEAD, HAT BY PHILIP TREACY, BAG BY JIMMY CHOO.JULIE 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.

DONATELLA VERSACE IS NOW OFFICIALLY A GAY IN

The 15 Greatt Gay Digners. A fashn signer g out as gay to The Advote was a huge al 1995.

Two years later, that signer was Ryan Murphy's retellg of Gianni Versace's murr -- Amerin Crime Story: The Assassatn of Gianni Versace -- that 22-year-old Advote terview to life, pictgjournalist Brendan Lemon, who also also broke several other g out stori for The Advote, stg down wh the vtage terview, where Versace discsed his new book, the men his life, and how ItalianVogue is full of "ugly boys, " below: THE IMAGE MAKERKnown for his sexy signs, famo clientele (Elton, Madonna, and Stg) and his homoerotic advertisg mpaigns, Gianni Versace giv a glimpse to his private world of men. But the associatn ran eper than the man behd the mera: As Kle's men embodied a kd of male-oriented fantasy of the '80s, when the buffed male torso seemed pably homoerotic, so Versace's betiful bodi seem to reflect a which a penchant for this kd of advertisg has begun to dite somethg ls tomatilly gay. Not that Versace has ever shirked homosexualy.

Richard Mart, curator of the Costume Instue at the Metropolan Mm of Art New York Cy, says that "there is no qutn that Versace's own out gay inty has been a part of this work. One hyperbolic visor to var Versace hoeholds swore to me that Versace and d'Ami tend the children and that only Donatella -- whose love of nightlife d'Ami to dub her, affectnately, "the queen of the gays" -- liked life the limo. "Conventnally, " he repli, "if you are a man who ments on a male bety -- say, a movie star like Kev Costner -- people immediately thk you're gay.

‘VERSACE’ STARS: ANTI-GAY BIAS LED TO SIGNER’S ATH

”The segment cid wh “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and a change the policy on gay people servg the ary. ”Trail warned Schlger, “You’re gog to weaken our natnal fense if you remove gays om the ary.

”Wtrock, who is not gay himself, said that he prepared for the role by speakg to gay men who were “ their forti or fifti and lived through this perd when they weren’t [out]. 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.