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It’s a rnn of the origal seven season-one strangers of MTV’s <em>The Real World</em>, now hoverg around fifty and sent back to the inic Soho loft where they refed televisn drama twenty-ne years ago. And while began as the pleasant diversn you would image to be– a medatn on middle age, a nostalgic tch-up wh long-lost iends you’ve never actually met– has quickly bee Culturally Important. Kev’s words om 1992, his patient explanatns of his lived experience which got him labeled an angry Black man, are now the accepted tth of the Black male experience, while Becky, wh whom he sparred season one, still ref to acknowledge her own privilege. Meanwhile, nocent Julie has emerged as a kick-ass anti-racist, Heather is on-air all day long at SiriXM, Andre is a ol dad Echo Park, and Eric is a natural healer who has neverthels ntracted Covid-19 and has to attend the rnn via FaceTime om a nearby hotel. 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In <em>Homeg</em>, he gets mighty real: he addrs the homophobia that got him shunned by hometown iends after the show aired, the ternalized homophobia that got him shunned by the gay muny, and the fancial lamy that fac an artist a year when galleri are closed. Norman has emerged as a star, and a legimate gay in. In preparatn for tonight’s season fale, I spoke to him about his <em>Real World</em> experienc then and now, his current life small-town Michigan, and his ventn: the A Stand adaptive laptop sk, currently sold out onle. He’s real <em>and</em> pole, and he s at least three brand-new exprsns which I am gog to steal immediately.<br /></p><p data-no-id="3" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><strong>Esquire: Norman, ngratulatns on </strong><strong><em>Homeg</em></strong><strong>. I've seen all but the fal episo and I'm tellg you, 's outstandg televisn.</strong></p><p data-no-id="4" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Norman: I know. I was tellg people early on, when we were dog terviews: “Look, this is not a normal rnn show, this is an entirely new, evolved thg that's occurrg, and 's probably more tertg if you terview later on down the le."</p><p data-no-id="5" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><strong>I don't know if you n say, but where do thgs stand for all of you now? Have you all spoken sce?</strong></p><p data-no-id="6" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Y, we're all munitn. I'm really happy that Becky has reached back out to me bee everythg was so rocky. I mean, you go through the experience, and then you also go through the experience of what people are seeg on TV, which is still a limed part. But I'm really glad that she’s standg where she's standg. She’s sayg thgs like “I n see your pot, and I n see everybody's pot.” I’m not sure if Kev is watchg everythg, but I'm fely ntact, and I’m super supportive of everythg that's gog on. It's a lot to take when you have your life beg put back on the screen aga. 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I really wanted to talk about what you’ve discsed the show, bee 's te, you really were the first om-the-jump openly queer person on TV.</strong></p><p data-no-id="9" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Right? I have to thank the producers so much. There aren’t many tim history when you n actually go back and talk about somethg that had happened, pecially wh the people that brought you there the first place. I always felt like a ltle b of a Frankenste back then. There wasn't a lot of muny, like maybe <em>none</em>. Today, you'd have so much more outreach and so many more ways to nnect to people. It was really toxic back then. It was like a ath sentence if you were openly gay any pacy out there. If you had a gay character, I believe the movie ratg would be an immediate R back that year. It was like sayg the word “fuck." That's how crazy was.</p><p data-no-id="10" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">So, tryg to te people who were terviewg me who weren't gay, I would kd of give them the full history, like, I had sex wh women high school. As for who I was and what my inty was at that pot, I fely was gay, but tryg to scribe that was pretty hard at the begng. When I was scribed as bisexual, bee I had slept wh women, that wasn't my current inty.</p><p data-no-id="11" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">It’s hard to scribe that world to people today, when people are more fortable wh sexual and genr fluidy. I thk by the time we got to Pedro, we had ma such stris. So much changed the world, the muny got bigger, there were many more people to rely on than when I stepped out on stage.</p><p data-no-id="12" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><strong>Everyone's evolutn on whatever they ci to ll themselv is different. It's not unheard-of for a gay man to have a phase where he intifi as bisexual, you jt happen to have had yours on mera.</strong></p><p data-no-id="13" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Yeah.</p><style data-emotn="css w4h092">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{clear:both;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{clear:both;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:60%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:0rem;float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:60%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:0rem;float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:50%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:0rem;float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:50%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:0rem;float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:60%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:0rem;float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:60%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:0rem;float:left;clear:left;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="large" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="14" class="align-left size-large embed css-w4h092 e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="mtv" tle="mtv" loadg="lazy" width="906" height="1368" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-78jldq e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-8h7i7x e1xqj1sx1">"It’s hard to scribe that world to people today, when people are more fortable wh sexual and genr fluidy."</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1mcfn5x e6iqd2">Courty</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="15" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><strong>After the show was over, did you feel support om the gay muny?</strong></p><p data-no-id="16" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">No. I mean, gog to this, I had been one of the first 20 members of ACT UP. That group had been generated om one of my profsors, Douglas Crimp, who was one of the founrs, wh Larry Kramer. They would have meetgs at the Cooper Unn where I went to llege, so my profsor brought all to . We’d lost so many stunts, and we were a very small stunt body at Cooper Unn.</p><p data-no-id="17" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">I knew a lot of the people that beme the founrs of Out Magaze, people who beme proment GLAAD, people who went on to do all the great thgs. And they knew me too, so when they heard “bisexual” beg thrown out, they were jt like, "well, we know Norm, he's gay." They were very upset, like they thought I wasn't proud enough to be gay. I had a hard time wh a lot of those people those first years, bee was so important to fd someone that says "I am gay." And they were like, "He's werg. He's not sayg that he's fully gay, he's bisexual." A lot of the people I really need the most, who I really rpected the most, turned their back on me.</p><p data-no-id="18" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">I was hopg to help them. I was makg a bridge to a wir dience. MTV was gog to reach an dience that they uldn't even touch, hontly. They didn't have the pacy to reach 144 untri, and to reach out to straight alli who weren't an urban gay ghetto talkg only to themselv. This was really gog to create a bridge that was ultimately gog to help them, so was kd of sadng.</p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="19" data-embed="pullquote" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><style data-emotn="css 1eiql25">{text-align:center;marg:0rem;paddg-top:0.9375rem;paddg-bottom:0.9375rem;}</style><blockquote class="css-1eiql25 e1pe3zr91"><style data-emotn="css ow0dpz">{borr:0.3125rem solid #FF3A30;borr-radi:100%;ntent:'';display:block;height:2.1875rem;left:50%;marg:-0.99rem to 0 -1.33rem;posn:absolute;width:2.1875rem;}</style><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-ow0dpz eagam8p0"></span><style data-emotn="css la9czl">{font-fay:Lsanne,Lsanne-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:1.625rem;le-height:1.2;marg:0rem;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.75rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:2.375rem;le-height:1.2;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}{ntent:'"';display:block;font-fay:Lsanne,Lsanne-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:3.4375rem;le-height:0.72;font-style:alic;paddg:0.3125rem 0.875rem 0 0;}</style><blockquote class="css-la9czl e1pe3zr90">"A lot of people jt beltled , like <em>you don't have any talents</em>." </blockquote><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></blockquote></div><p data-no-id="20" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Then they beltle realy televisn, you know? A lot of people jt beltled , like <em>you don't have any talents</em>. They tried to shrk and dimish our impact, yet they didn't realize our impact was much bigger. When you have a disptor e along, they don't thk you are as powerful as you are, and then all of a sudn you're YouTube.</p><p data-no-id="21" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">I look back at the seri and I am jt so proud of what has happened over the years. And I walked the streets, I traveled. We didn't have money like the Kardashians, we didn’t lnch a vodka le that's worth a hundred ln dollars or whatever. We were the public, so we knew om engagg the public how the public was changg. I uld see that firsthand, you know, and was pretty imprsive.</p><p data-no-id="22" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><strong>It feels to me still like the queer muny is not great at supportg queer people. Straight alli we tend to give a lot of cred to, but up and g young queer people, we're still not great at supportg.</strong></p><p data-no-id="23" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">You do see other margalized groups that rally around and regnize, like, “this person did somethg for the women's e," or “she did somethg for people of lor," or whatever. It's still kd of…quandary-like. It's very odd. I don't ever see myself on the list of a hundred great gay people, like some are. It's h or miss wh me. I jt know what I did to change a lot of straight people's liv, to get them to accept their gay brothers and sisters, to start to addrs them as the people that are gog to vote for . That beme even more important to me, that reachg out that occurred.</p><p data-no-id="24" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><strong>Season one aired when I was llege, and a moment that they’ve replayed a bunch of tim </strong><strong><em>The Real World: Homeg</em></strong><strong> is you and Becky. She says, "I didn't meet any cute boys tonight,” and you say, "I didn't eher." That quick thg was so signifint for a young gay kid bee wasn't played for lghs. It was jt like, </strong><strong><em>Here are two people jt beg, and not havg to expla themselv, and not beg ma the butt of the joke. </em></strong><strong>It was small, but really signifint.</strong></p><p data-no-id="25" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">I'm glad you poted that out, bee I was Tower Rerds when they ran that as a promo clip. And was almost like I watched a shockwave, like someone had said "fuck" on televisn. I jt watched all the ey jt go big, like <em>did you hear that?</em> It’s so hard to scribe that part of the world that's no longer there. But that was the geni thg: wasn't g out there wh a tmpet. I uld've e out there wh my ACT UP stuff and I uld have really jt rammed down people's throats, but I jt really felt we've been gog so long, watchg people die and tryg to get people to support .</p><p data-no-id="26" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The only thg that I uld really thk that was equivalent is Robert Mapplethorpe. I knew Robert Mapplethorpe, bee I was very active the muny, and I’ve worked for a lot of big galleri. But that's what Ameri was gettg: Jse Helms up agast Robert Mapplethorpe and his very explic gay imag. And his work is amazg, but that's what was g out. You know you're gog to get the tulips and you're gog to get a whip somebody's ass. So I was like, <em>Someone's gog to unterbalance that. Someone's gog to e up wh the Ozzie and Harriet for ‘90s Ameri, so the rt of the world n say, “okay, there's a lot of different people this muny.”</em> There was a lot of risk, no one was really g out. But I did feel safe the gay muny of New York and what was happeng there. 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How is beg home different than was before New York?</strong></p><p data-no-id="29" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">I me om a really special Italian, Sicilian fay, very creative people, very loud and boistero. My grandmother was the matriarch of the fay, and I was the apple of her eye. We were thick as thiev. She ran a bar, all of 4’1” and she’d throw people out. But Michigan, was difficult for me. I went through a really tough patch middle school and high school, which led me to leave there. I went to a boardg school Michigan lled Interlochen Arts Amy, a big arts super high school, graduat like Alicia Keys and Jewel and Josh Groban and all of those characters. That really was very helpful for me to fd my way to a creative rource growg up. You know, 's kd of funny, we had a mock prom 1983, two guys ran for kg and queen, and they won. So was very different to go om the public school to the boardg school. I got to see people like that and everyone ually went off to New York Cy afterwards, so I was like, "you know, there's a place for me."</p><p data-no-id="30" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><strong>How has the experience been wh </strong><strong><em>Homeg</em></strong><strong>? Are you happy wh how all me out?</strong></p><p data-no-id="31" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">I thk I am, yeah. They've really done an credible job. The origal show was 22 mut an episo, so I'm really surprised to see that went to 40 mut. I didn't know they’d do that. So seems like the storytellg is a lot more round, they're givg you another bend the curve. I uld never que tell the first season, was my story too advanced, and that's why I was the background? I heard that a lot when the first season aired: <em>he seems tertg, why’s he always the background? </em>It always seemed like the meras would go wherever Eric was, but then as I got olr I realized: they jt didn't have the money. They only had like one or two mera crews and they uld barely afford their own food. When you're olr and you e back, you get to hear more of the producers’ story and what they were up agast tryg to get this thg on the air. </p><p data-no-id="32" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">On our backs, they've been able to make so many shows and brg so many stori to light. There are probably over 200 people who have been on this <em>Real World/Road Rul</em> tra. And they’ve brought so many stori, transgenr stori, gay people the ary stori, I mean, 's jt outstandg what this show has been able to brg to the people. I thk we really jt get unrlooked so much, people say <em>that was scripted</em> or <em>they're narcissistic</em>. No, there was somethg more than narcissism that drew me to this experience.</p><style data-emotn="css 1736von">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;clear:both;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="33" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="mtv real world season 1 st" tle="mtv real world season 1 st" loadg="lazy" width="1110" height="1366" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><style data-emotn="css swqnqv">@media(m-width: 20rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}</style><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-8h7i7x e1xqj1sx1">"People say <em>that was scripted or they’re narcissistic< em </em></div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1mcfn5x e6iqd2">MTV</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="34" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><strong>Especially back then, if you were offered an opportuny like this, why wouldn't you take ? You uldn’t possibly have known what would be.</strong></p><p data-no-id="35" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">You know, I jt knew that there were so many people that were dyg and they didn't have a voice. And I wasn't like an Elton John or somebody who had entire teams tellg them to stay the closet or we will lose money. I do remember a nversatn wh the producers, about the liabily sectn of the ntract: I was worried that once they started tellg my story, that if let’s say The Rollg Ston’ mic was playg the background, that I would be liable. Back then, if people saw somethg that was gay, they'd all lgh and smirk and say somethg awful and uld brand that artist’s mic horribly and then I uld be liable for . So if you put some Dire Stras song and I'm the scene and everyone's like, "Oh my God, that Dire Stras song mak me thk of a gay person,” and then Dire Stras gets upset, falls on my lap. And I looked at that ntract, I'm like, "You've got to change that around. I don't have ntrol of your ed." That was the world we lived .</p><p data-no-id="36" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><strong>God. Well, on a happier note, I see </strong><style data-emotn="css umdwtv">{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:#FF3A30;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:her;-webk-transn:background 0.4s;transn:background 0.4s;background:lear-gradient(#ffffff, #ffffff 50%, #d5dbe3 50%, #d5dbe3);-webk-background-size:100% 200%;background-size:100% 200%;}{lor:#000000;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;-webk-background-posn:100% 100%;background-posn:100% 100%;}</style><a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="the A Stands" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0"><strong><u>the A Stands</u></strong></a><strong> are sold out.</strong></p><p data-no-id="37" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">What sany that is. They’re still actually kd of stuck over Cha. I have another 180 of them that are stg a warehoe there. I did an ial n of 5,000. They st que a penny jt to do the ial n. And I own the molds and own all that stuff. But 's been really hard to nnect wh this to the public, durg a panmic and the whole b. But once people did nnect wh , wham, they bought up everythg that I had on Amazon, and then they started movg to the webse, and then was jt poppg off. I had like 80 of them storage California and I'm Michigan, so I’m llg my partner, like, "Get up, go ship them to people." He's like "What?" And I'm like "They're sellg!” </p><p data-no-id="38" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><strong>So do you have any plans to e back to California?</strong></p><p data-no-id="39" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Oh, absolutely. My bs partner and I have everythg operatg out of his place Rancho Mirage. I jt need my COVID shots, and then I’ll fly and discs. We are on the books to do another eratn of the A Stand. Pl I have my patgs and my stuff sttered to at least 12 different people's hom. </p><p data-no-id="40" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">My plan for my future is I'm gog to spl my time between Michigan and the high sert, bee I jt love that whole arts muny. I've done stuff wh the arts project that's out of the Bombay Beach. You know, I was the first Burng Man, I knew all the people the begng of Burng Man. In California I drive people plac that they have no ia about. I'm like, "You've never been to Deep Creek Hot Sprgs? We're gog." I always ve people om San Francis who poo on LA, and I'm like, “I'm jt gog to brg you to the three plac that will have your mouth drop out of your mouth,” you know?</p><style data-emotn="css 2ok9l4">{marg-top:1.875rem;borr-top:th solid #595959;}</style><div data-jam-id="thor-b" class="css-2ok9l4 e13rjwo40"><style data-emotn="css f0b5z8">{display:grid;grid-template-lumns:to 1;grid-lumn-gap:0.625rem;paddg-top:1.25rem;paddg-bottom:1.25rem;clear:both;}</style><div class="css-f0b5z8 e19xk9rq8"><style data-emotn="css irehmq">{borr-radi:50%;height:60px;width:60px;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{width:40px;height:40px;}}</style><span class="css-irehmq e19xk9rq1"><style data-emotn="css o0wq4v">{width:100%;height:100%;borr-radi:50%;vertil-align:middle;object-f:ver;}</style><img src="" alt="Headshot of Dave Holm" tle="Headshot of Dave Holm" width="100%" height="100%" dg="async" loadg="lazy" class="css-o0wq4v e19xk9rq3" /></span><div><style data-emotn="css 3sqxrq">{display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;grid-gap:4px;-webk-align-ems:basele;-webk-box-align:basele;-ms-flex-align:basele;align-ems:basele;-webk-box-flex-wrap:wrap;-webk-flex-wrap:wrap;-ms-flex-wrap:wrap;flex-wrap:wrap;}</style><div class="css-3sqxrq e19xk9rq7"><span class="css-0 e19xk9rq5"><style data-emotn="css 1yunoig">{lor:#161616;font-fay:Lsanne,Lsanne-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacg:0.02rem;-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-lor:her;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-transform:upperse;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.4;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.3;}}{lor:#595959;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;}</style><style data-emotn="css 1kgdfad">{lor:#161616;font-fay:Lsanne,Lsanne-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacg:0.02rem;text-transform:upperse;lor:#161616;font-fay:Lsanne,Lsanne-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacg:0.02rem;-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-lor:her;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-transform:upperse;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.4;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.3;}}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.4;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.3;}}{lor:#595959;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;}</style><a href="/thor/9774/dave-holm/" class="e1c1bym13 css-1kgdfad e1c1bym14"><span>Dave Holm</span></a></span></div><style data-emotn="css pqlu">{lor:#161616;font-fay:Lsanne,Lsanne-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacg:0.02rem;marg-top:0.625rem;text-transform:upperse;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.4;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.3;}}</style><div class="css-pqlu e19xk9rq6">Edor-at-Large</div><style data-emotn="css 1b1navg">{display:-webk-box;font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1rem;le-height:1.4;overflow:hidn;paddg-top:0.3125rem;-webk-box-orient:vertil;-webk-le-clamp:5;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{-webk-le-clamp:10;}}>*{display:le;} em{font-fay:CharterItalic,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-style:alic;} p{marg:0rem;} p a{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:her;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;} p a:hover{text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;}</style><div class="css-1b1navg e19xk9rq4"><p>Dave Holm is Esquire's L.A.-based edor-at-large. His first book, "Party of One," is out now. </p></div></div></div></div><style data-emotn="css ciejky">{clear:both;marg-top:1.25rem;}</style><div id="journey-le" class="css-ciejky e1cslvxz0"></div><div class="css-79elbk eg8z2o90"><div class="css-79elbk e1tp40ll1"><div data-anchor-id="P0-0" class="css-0 e1tp40ll0"></div></div><style data-emotn="css hi6ssp">{display:block;grid-area:article_body;grid-lumn:article_body-start/article_body-end;grid-row:to;jtify-self:center;marg:1.25rem 0 0;}@media prt{{display:none;}}@media(max-width: 30rem){{width:100%;}}@media(max-width: 61.25rem){{m-height:28rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{width:488px;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:612px;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{max-width:40.25rem;}}</style><div class="css-hi6ssp eg8z2o92"></div></div></div></div><div></div><style data-emotn="css 6b9rfj">{display:block;-webk-flex-basis:lc((100vw - lc(20.625rem * 2 - 1rem) - 1rem - 20.625rem) / 2);-ms-flex-preferred-size:lc((100vw - lc(20.625rem * 2 - 1rem) - 1rem - 20.625rem) / 2);flex-basis:lc((100vw - 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SCE THEN, THE TRAILBLAZG REALY SHOW HAS REFLECTED—AND FLUENCED—POP CULTURE UNTLS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FOR LGBT PEOPLE OF A CERTA AGE, THE REAL WORLD: NEW YORK'S NORMAN KORPI WAS THE FIRST REAL-LIFE GAY MAN WE EVER SAW ON TV. 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BIG. {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}POST-RW, NORMAN FOUND THE PRODUCTN PANY F FILMS, AND STARRED, DIRECTED AND WROTE THE PENNT FILM THE WEDDG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TODAY, NORMAN IS STILL SIGNG AND MAKG ART—AND RECENTLY VENTED AN ERGONOMIC LAPTOP STAND, THE AEROTRAY. 2015, HE AND FORMER HOEMAT HEATHER B AND JULIE APPEARED ON THE OPRAH WEY NETWORK TO DISCS THEIR REAL WORLD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BETH ANTHONY, “THE REAL WORLD: LOS ANGEL”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHY IRENE DIDN’T JT POSTPONE HER WEDDG, WE’LL NEVER KNOW. BUT HER PARTURE THE SHOW'S SEND SEASON GAVE THIS OUT-AND-PROUD HOEMATE. BETH ROCKED HER NSERVATIVE ROOMI—AND DIENC—WHEN SHE WORE A T-SHIRT READG "I’M NOT GAY, BUT MY GIRLIEND IS." (HEY, WAS THE EARLY 1990S!){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE DAYS, SHE LIV HAWAII WH HER FAY AND NS A VTAGE CLOTHG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PEDRO ZAMORA, “THE REAL WORLD: SAN FRANCIS”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MATURE BEYOND HIS 22 YEARS, PEDRO ZAMORA ENTERED THE REAL WORLD HOE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE—HE WAS LIVG WH AIDS, AND MA HIS MISSN TO TE HIS HOEMAT—AND AMERI—ABOUT THE DISEASE. WE SAW PEDRO STGGLE WH HEALTH ISSU AND AIDS-PHOBIA, AND STILL FD TIME FOR A LOVG RELATNSHIP WH HIS PARTNER, SEAN.REAL WORLD SAN FRANCISCO, ,L-R PUCK RAEY, RACHEL CAMPOS, CORY MURPHY,PAM LG, MOHAMMED BILAL, PEDRO ZAMORA, JUDD WICK, 1994, 3RD SEASON, {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PEDRO DIED NOVEMBER 11, 1994-THE DAY THE SEASON FALE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HIS LIFE WAS DRAMATIZED THE FILM PEDRO, WRTEN BY FUTURE OSR WNER DT LANCE BLACK. THIS BRAVE ACTIVIST'S LEGACY LIV ON THROUGH THE PEDRO ZAMORA PUBLIC POLICY FELLOWSHIP AND THE PEDRO ZAMORA YOUNG LEARS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DAN RENZI, “THE REAL WORLD: MIAMI”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE MIAMI HOE WAS A WILD RI OF SEX, FUN AND FIGHTS, AND DAN FULLY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}POST-RW, DAN PURSUED MOLG AND WRG, AND BEME THE EDOR OF THE SOUTH FLORIDA BLA. HE'S ALSO WORKED AS A SAFE-SEX TOR AND IS NOW A REGISTERED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GENIS MOSS, "THE REAL WORLD: BOSTON"FRAZER HARRISON/GETTY IMAGWEST HOLLYWOOD, CA - DECEMBER 11: TELEVISN PERSONALI GENIS OF "THE REAL WORLD" AND SOPHIA OF "ROAD RUL" ATTEND CY OF HOPE'S ONE-OF-A-KD EVENT, "THE REAL DEAL" TO RAISE AWARENS AND FUNDS TO STRENGTHEN LEADG-EDGE REARCH FOR HIV/AIDS AT THE PACIFIC DIGN CENTER DECEMBER 11, 2003 WT HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA. (PHOTO BY FRAZER HARRISON/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE SAME YEAR ELLEN DEGENER ME OUT, THIS SOUTHERN LLEGE GIRL ENTERED THE REAL WORLD HOE. A TROUBLED TROVERT HER TEENS, GEN BLOSSOMED ON THE SHOW—AND FAMOLY HAD A MOMENT WH A DRAG QUEEN NAMED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TODAY, GENIS IS A GRAPHIC SIGNER, WEDDG PHOTOGRAPHER AND WE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}STEPHEN WILLIAMS, "THE REAL WORLD: SEATTLE"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}STEPHEN WASN'T OUT DURG HIS SEASON, BUT IRENE'S ACCATN THAT HE WAS CLOSETED SPARKED ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS RW HISTORY. AS THEIR ARGUEMENT BEME MORE HEATED, STEPHEN THREW IRENE'S STUFFED DOG TO THE OCEAN AND SLAPPED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}STEPHEN ME OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RUTHIE ALI, “THE REAL WORLD: HAWAII”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RUTHIE MA A SPLASH WHEN SHE ENTERED THE REAL WORLD HOE AND IMMEDIATELY WENT SKNY-DIPPG. THOUGH LIFE WASN’T ALL TOPLS POOL PARTI PARADISE FOR RUTHIE, WHO ACCEPTED HER ISSU WH DRKG DURG THE SEASON AND ENTERED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE DAYS, RUTHIE IS WORKG FILM PRODUCTN AND WORKS THE LECTURE CIRCU TO TE PEOPLE ABOUT SUBSTANCE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JT DEABLER, “THE REAL WORLD: HAWAII”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS HARVARD LAW STUNT WASN'T QUE FORTABLE TALKG ABOUT HIS SEXUALY WH HIS HOEMAT AND EVENTUALLY LEFT HAWAII FOR A FAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NOW MARRIED, HE'S HAD ONE OF THE MOT TERTG POST-RW REERS, WORKG AS THE ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL, CIVIL RIGHTS BURE, FOR THE STATE OF NEW {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DANNY ROBERTS, “THE REAL WORLD: NEW ORLEANS”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DANNY WAS NOT ONLY ADORABLE, BUT HIS STORY LE SHED LIGHT ON DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL, AS HE WAS A RELATNSHIP WH A CLOSETED ARMY OFFICER. (DANNY'S BOYIEND'S FACE HD TO BE BLURRED ON-MERA.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AFTER HIS SEASON, DANNY PURSUED ACTG, APPEARG ON DAWSON’S CREEK AND DTLA, AS WELL AS MTV’S THE CHALLENGE. IN 2018 HE ME OUT AS HIV {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CHRIS BECKMAN, “THE REAL WORLD: CHIGO”PATRICK MCMULLAN/PATRICK MCMULLAN VIA GETTY IMAGNEW YORK CITY, NY - MAY 15: CHRIS BECKMAN ATTENDS THE IRVGTON INSTUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGIL REARCH, "THROUGH THE KCHEN" BENEF DNER AT THE FOUR SEASONS RTRANT ON MAY 15, 2005 NEW YORK CY. (PHOTO BY PATRICK MCMULLAN/PATRICK MCMULLAN VIA GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE SOBER ARTIST SURPRISED HIS ROOMI WHEN HE TOOK A JOB AS A BARTENR—AND WHEN HE BEGAN A RELATNSHIP WH A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CHRIS MOLED FOR RALPH LREN AND IS NOW AN ARTIST NEW YORK {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ANEA FERREIRA, “THE REAL WORLD: CHIGO”ASTRID STAWIARZ/GETTY IMAGNEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 14: ANEA FERREIRA ATTENDS MTV'S "THE REAL WORLD EX-PLOSN" SEASON PREMIERE PARTY AT BOTTOMZ UP BAR AND GRILL ON JANUARY 14, 2014 NEW YORK CY. (PHOTO BY ASTRID STAWIARZ/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ANEA WAS BTALLY HONT, LIKED TO FOREGO CLOTHG AND EVEN SHOWERED WH HER MALE ROOMMAT. AUDIENC SAW HER ARGUE WH TONYA, AND HER OWN GIRLIEND, BUT ANEA'S MOST MEMORABLE RW MOMENT WAS HER BIRTHDAY PARTY ON SEPTMEBER 11, 2001, AS THE HOEMAT WATCHED THE 9/11 ATTACKS ON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ANEA HAS SCE BEEN A STAPLE ON MTV, APPEARG ON TEN SEASONS OF THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SIMON SHERRY-WOOD, "THE REAL WORLD: PARIS"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SIMON WAS AN IRISH TEENAGER WHEN HE JOED THE REAL WORLD: PARIS. SWEET AND SENSIVE, HE BOND QUICKLY WH THE GIRLS, AND HIS FORT WH HIMSELF AND HIS SEXUALY HELPED GIVE THE BOYS A POSIVE PERSPECTIVE ON GAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SCE THE REAL WORLD SIMON WAS PART OF RUPL’S DRAG RACE'S P CREW—WHERE HE BEME CLOSE IENDS WH COURTNEY ACT—AND WAS A LEAD HAIRSTYLIST FOR MADONNA’S REBEL HEART {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WILLIE HERNANZ, "THE REAL WORLD: PHILALPHIA"M. CLFIELD/WIREIMAGE FOR GLAADCAST MEMBERS WILLIE HERNANZ AND KARAMO BROWN ACCEPT AWARD FOR OTANDG REALY PROGRAM FOR "THE REAL WORLD: PHILALPHIA" WHICH TIED FOR THE AWARD (PHOTO BY M. CLFIELD/WIREIMAGE FOR GLAAD){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS NEW YORKER WAS ONE OF TWO GAY MEN LIVG THE RW PHILLY HOE. THOUGH OUTGOG AND DOWN TO PARTY, WILLIE HAD A TOUGH UPBRGG—HE WAS FORCED TO LEAVE HOME AT 15 WHEN HIS RELIG PARENTS WOULDN'T ACCEPT HIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BEFORE APPEARG ON THE REAL WORLD, HE WAS A CHILD ACTOR ON TV'S GHOSTWRER AND, SCE THE SHOW, HAS APPEARED MOVI LIKE THE UNRVER MAN, THE NARROW GATE, AND THE QUEER DIE A FOUR LETTER WORD .{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KARAMO BROWN, "THE REAL WORLD: PHILALPHIA"ROY ROCHL/GETTY IMAGNEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 29: (EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE) KARAMO BROWN VISS SIRIXM STUDS ON JANUARY 29, 2020 NEW YORK CY. (PHOTO BY ROY ROCHL/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE FIRST OPENLY GAY AIN AMERIN MAN REAL WORLD HISTORY, TODAY KARAMO IS MOST KNOWN FOR BEG ONE OF THE FAB FIVE OM NETFLIX'S REBOOT OF QUEER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TYLER DUCKWORTH, "THE REAL WORLD: KEY WT"KEV WTER/GETTY IMAGLOS ANGELES - MARCH 15: TYLER DUCKWORTH ARRIV AT MTV'S REAL WORLD AWARDS BASH AT THE SUNSET PLAZA HOE ON MARCH 15, 2008 LOS ANGEL, CALIFORNIA. (PHOTO BY KEV WTER/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS FORMER GYMNAST AND FIGURE SKATER ME OM A RELIG BACKGROUND FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA. HE ACTUALLY APPLIED TO BE ON THE REAL WORLD AFTER AN ACCINT LEFT HIM UNABLE TO PETE. SCE KEY WT, TYLER HAS PETED ON MTV’S THE CHALLENGE AND WORKED AS A SPORTS JOURNALIST AND A PERSONAL TRAER FOR THE BOSTON CELTICS. TODAY, HE'S A PROJECT MANAGER WH SCHOOS DIGN GROUP AND LIV WT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DAVIS MALLORY "THE REAL WORLD: DENVER"JASON MERRT/FILMMAGIC FOR BRAGMAN NYMAN CAFARELLIDAVIS MALLORY DURG TIME WARNER CABLE AND MTV NETWORKS CELEBRATE THE LNCH OF LOGO AND LOGO ON DEMAND AT BOULEVARD3 HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA, UNED STAT. (PHOTO BY JASON MERRT/FILMMAGIC FOR BRAGMAN NYMAN CAFARELLI){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE OUT ATERNY BROTHER WAS ALG WH AN UNSUPPORTIVE CHRISTIAN FAY WHEN HE ENTERED THE HOE, AND FOUND HIMSELF AT ODDS WH TYRIE, WHO APPEARED UNEASY ABOUT LIVG WH A GAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DAVIS LATER APPEARED ON MULTIPLE SEASONS OF MTV’S THE CHALLENGE, AND IS NOW A MEMPHIS-BASED SGER-SONGWRER AND MIC JOURNALIST. HE'S CURRENTLY AN ONLE RRPONNT FOR THE GRAND OLE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JD ORDOÑEZ, "THE REAL WORLD: BROOKLYN"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JD OVERME GREAT ODDS BEFORE MAKG TO TELEVISN: HE RAN AWAY OM HOME AT 13 BUT, BY 19, FULFILLED HIS DREAM OF BEG A DOLPH TRAER. HE'S STILL A PART OF THE MTV FAY, PETG ON VAR EDNS OF THE CHALLENGE. TODAY JD LIV L.A. AND WORKS AT WEHO MASTAY MICKEY'{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KATELYNN CANELLI, "THE REAL WORLD: BROOKLYN"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KATELYNN MA HISTORY AS THE FIRST TRANS ROOMMATE ON THE REAL WORLD—SHE ENTERED THE HOE JT WEEKS AFTER PLETG HER GENR-NFIRMATN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TODAY SHE WORKS SILIN VALLEY AND NTU TO WORK FOR LGBT EQUALY AND SOCIAL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DEREK CHAVEZ, "THE REAL WORLD: CANCUN"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DEREK CHAVEZ WON OVER HIS HOEMAT WH HIS UPBEAT ATTU AND WARM SE. HE MA GOOD E OF HIS TIME CANCUN, DATG A GUY HE MET WHILE FILMG, AND TREATG BLE DIENC TO A FEW MAN-ON-MAN MAKEOUT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AFTER THE REAL WORLD DEREK ALSO PETED ON THE CHALLENGE. HE CURRENTLY LIV STTSDALE, ARIZONA, AND APPEARS TO BE BLISSFULLY HAPPY WH HIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MIKE C. MANNG, "THE REAL WORLD: WASHGTON, DC"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A BISEXUAL ENVIRONMENTALIST AND LGBT RIGHTS ACTIVIST, MIKE WAS ABLE TO EXPLORE RELATNSHIPS WH MEN DURG HIS STAY THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HE'S SCE GONE ON TO PURSUE ACTG MOVI LIKE DISNEY'S CLOUD 9, THE GAY DIE ECUPID AND THE UPG FOLK HERO & FUNNY GUY, WHICH WILL BUT AT THE TRIBE FILM FTIVAL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MIKE ALSO PRODUCED THE DOCUMENTARY KIDNAPPED FOR CHRIST, WHICH PROFILED YOUNG PEOPLE FORCEFULLY TAKEN OM THEIR HOM AND SENT TO AN EX-GAY THERAPY CENTER THE DOMIN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PRTON CHARL, “THE REAL WORLD: NEW ORLEANS 2"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS MICHIGAN NATIVE HAD SOME DIFFICULTI WH HIS HOEMAT—RYAN FAMOLY CROSSED THE LE WHEN HE ED A GAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HE LATER APPEARED ON MTV'S BATTLE OF THE SEASONS: RIVALS 2 AND, 2011, TEAMED UP WH PRODUCER SHANNON MECHUTAN ON THE MTV DOCUMENTARY COMG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TODAY PRTON LIV NEW YORK, WHERE HE BLOGS AND WR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FRANK SWEENEY, "THE REAL WORLD: SAN DIEGO 2"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE MTACHED BABE OF THE SAN DIEGO HOE BROUGHT HIS OWN SPECIAL BRAND OF ENERGY AND WHIMSY TO THE SHOW, WHERE HE WAS ONE OF THE SERI' FEW BISEXUAL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LIFE AFTER THE REAL WORLD HAS BEEN GOOD TO FRANK: HE’S PETED ON THE CHALLENGE AND WON BATTLE OF THE SEASONS. 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"I'VE NEVER FELT BETTER."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WILL CHRIS BE ABLE TO HANDLE ALL THE DRAMA OF THE REAL WORLD HOE? TUNE AND FD OUT!{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

Adrianna Newell for The New York TimFor gay adolcents a time before social media, who relied on televisn for glimps of fellow travelers, the sight of him boppg around the “Real World” digs his black boxer briefs was both an awakeng and an ditn of new Mr. Dill’s blurred-out face his several appearanc beme an endurg symbol of the jtice of “Don’t ask, don’t tell, ” as well as the limal space gay people occupied. ”“You know, Matthew Shepard was jt a uple of years before this, ” he ntued, referrg to the gay llege stunt who was kidnapped and murred Wyomg 1998.

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It’s a rnn of the origal seven season-one strangers of MTV’s <em>The Real World</em>, now hoverg around fifty and sent back to the inic Soho loft where they refed televisn drama twenty-ne years ago. And while began as the pleasant diversn you would image to be– a medatn on middle age, a nostalgic tch-up wh long-lost iends you’ve never actually met– has quickly bee Culturally Important. Kev’s words om 1992, his patient explanatns of his lived experience which got him labeled an angry Black man, are now the accepted tth of the Black male experience, while Becky, wh whom he sparred season one, still ref to acknowledge her own privilege. Meanwhile, nocent Julie has emerged as a kick-ass anti-racist, Heather is on-air all day long at SiriXM, Andre is a ol dad Echo Park, and Eric is a natural healer who has neverthels ntracted Covid-19 and has to attend the rnn via FaceTime om a nearby hotel. It is wild. </p><style data-emotn="css rw1kpk">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{clear:both;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{clear:both;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:60%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:0rem;float:right;clear:right;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:60%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:0rem;float:right;clear:right;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:50%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:0rem;float:right;clear:right;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:50%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:0rem;float:right;clear:right;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:60%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:0rem;float:right;clear:right;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:60%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:0rem;float:right;clear:right;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="large" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="1" class="align-right size-large embed css-rw1kpk e1xqj1sx4"><style data-emotn="css uwraif">{width:100%;display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;}</style><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="norman korpi, andre e, julie oliver, rebec blasband, heather b, eric ni and kev powell of the real world new york st photo by ron galella, ltdron galella llectn via getty imag" tle="1992 MTV Vio Mic Awards" loadg="lazy" width="3000" height="2282" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><style data-emotn="css 78jldq">{paddg-left:0rem;}</style><div class="css-78jldq e1xqj1sx2"><style data-emotn="css 8h7i7x">{width:0;m-width:100%;paddg-top:0.625rem;letter-spacg:0.02rem;font-fay:Lsanne,Lsanne-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.875rem;le-height:1.3;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><div class="css-8h7i7x e1xqj1sx1">Norman Korpi, Andre Come, Julie Oliver, Rebec Blasband, Heather B., Eric Ni and Kev Powell at the 1992 MTV VMAs.</div><style data-emotn="css 1am3yn9">{paddg-left:0rem;le-height:1;}</style><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1mcfn5x e6iqd2">Ron Galella, Ltd.</span><style data-emotn="css 1vpjmnm">{lor:#595959;font-fay:Lsanne,Lsanne-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;paddg:0 0.3rem;paddg-right:0.3125rem;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:0.70028rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:0.70028rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:0.75rem;le-height:1.3;}}</style><span class="css-1vpjmnm e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-1mcfn5x e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><style data-emotn="css 18vfmjb">{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.6;} em{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-style:alic;} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;}</style><p data-no-id="2" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">And then there’s Norman Korpi, the sweet queer artist who didn’t get much screen time season one, spe beg the first openly-gay-om-the-start televisn personaly. In <em>Homeg</em>, he gets mighty real: he addrs the homophobia that got him shunned by hometown iends after the show aired, the ternalized homophobia that got him shunned by the gay muny, and the fancial lamy that fac an artist a year when galleri are closed. Norman has emerged as a star, and a legimate gay in. In preparatn for tonight’s season fale, I spoke to him about his <em>Real World</em> experienc then and now, his current life small-town Michigan, and his ventn: the A Stand adaptive laptop sk, currently sold out onle. He’s real <em>and</em> pole, and he s at least three brand-new exprsns which I am gog to steal immediately.<br /></p><p data-no-id="3" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><strong>Esquire: Norman, ngratulatns on </strong><strong><em>Homeg</em></strong><strong>. I've seen all but the fal episo and I'm tellg you, 's outstandg televisn.</strong></p><p data-no-id="4" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Norman: I know. I was tellg people early on, when we were dog terviews: “Look, this is not a normal rnn show, this is an entirely new, evolved thg that's occurrg, and 's probably more tertg if you terview later on down the le."</p><p data-no-id="5" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><strong>I don't know if you n say, but where do thgs stand for all of you now? Have you all spoken sce?</strong></p><p data-no-id="6" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Y, we're all munitn. I'm really happy that Becky has reached back out to me bee everythg was so rocky. I mean, you go through the experience, and then you also go through the experience of what people are seeg on TV, which is still a limed part. But I'm really glad that she’s standg where she's standg. She’s sayg thgs like “I n see your pot, and I n see everybody's pot.” I’m not sure if Kev is watchg everythg, but I'm fely ntact, and I’m super supportive of everythg that's gog on. It's a lot to take when you have your life beg put back on the screen aga. 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I really wanted to talk about what you’ve discsed the show, bee 's te, you really were the first om-the-jump openly queer person on TV.</strong></p><p data-no-id="9" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Right? I have to thank the producers so much. There aren’t many tim history when you n actually go back and talk about somethg that had happened, pecially wh the people that brought you there the first place. I always felt like a ltle b of a Frankenste back then. There wasn't a lot of muny, like maybe <em>none</em>. Today, you'd have so much more outreach and so many more ways to nnect to people. It was really toxic back then. It was like a ath sentence if you were openly gay any pacy out there. If you had a gay character, I believe the movie ratg would be an immediate R back that year. It was like sayg the word “fuck." That's how crazy was.</p><p data-no-id="10" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">So, tryg to te people who were terviewg me who weren't gay, I would kd of give them the full history, like, I had sex wh women high school. As for who I was and what my inty was at that pot, I fely was gay, but tryg to scribe that was pretty hard at the begng. When I was scribed as bisexual, bee I had slept wh women, that wasn't my current inty.</p><p data-no-id="11" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">It’s hard to scribe that world to people today, when people are more fortable wh sexual and genr fluidy. I thk by the time we got to Pedro, we had ma such stris. So much changed the world, the muny got bigger, there were many more people to rely on than when I stepped out on stage.</p><p data-no-id="12" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><strong>Everyone's evolutn on whatever they ci to ll themselv is different. It's not unheard-of for a gay man to have a phase where he intifi as bisexual, you jt happen to have had yours on mera.</strong></p><p data-no-id="13" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Yeah.</p><style data-emotn="css w4h092">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{clear:both;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{clear:both;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:60%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:0rem;float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:60%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:0rem;float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:50%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:0rem;float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:50%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:0rem;float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:60%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:0rem;float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:60%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:0rem;float:left;clear:left;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="large" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="14" class="align-left size-large embed css-w4h092 e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="mtv" tle="mtv" loadg="lazy" width="906" height="1368" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-78jldq e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-8h7i7x e1xqj1sx1">"It’s hard to scribe that world to people today, when people are more fortable wh sexual and genr fluidy."</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1mcfn5x e6iqd2">Courty</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="15" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><strong>After the show was over, did you feel support om the gay muny?</strong></p><p data-no-id="16" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">No. I mean, gog to this, I had been one of the first 20 members of ACT UP. That group had been generated om one of my profsors, Douglas Crimp, who was one of the founrs, wh Larry Kramer. They would have meetgs at the Cooper Unn where I went to llege, so my profsor brought all to . We’d lost so many stunts, and we were a very small stunt body at Cooper Unn.</p><p data-no-id="17" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">I knew a lot of the people that beme the founrs of Out Magaze, people who beme proment GLAAD, people who went on to do all the great thgs. And they knew me too, so when they heard “bisexual” beg thrown out, they were jt like, "well, we know Norm, he's gay." They were very upset, like they thought I wasn't proud enough to be gay. I had a hard time wh a lot of those people those first years, bee was so important to fd someone that says "I am gay." And they were like, "He's werg. He's not sayg that he's fully gay, he's bisexual." A lot of the people I really need the most, who I really rpected the most, turned their back on me.</p><p data-no-id="18" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">I was hopg to help them. I was makg a bridge to a wir dience. MTV was gog to reach an dience that they uldn't even touch, hontly. They didn't have the pacy to reach 144 untri, and to reach out to straight alli who weren't an urban gay ghetto talkg only to themselv. This was really gog to create a bridge that was ultimately gog to help them, so was kd of sadng.</p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="19" data-embed="pullquote" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><style data-emotn="css 1eiql25">{text-align:center;marg:0rem;paddg-top:0.9375rem;paddg-bottom:0.9375rem;}</style><blockquote class="css-1eiql25 e1pe3zr91"><style data-emotn="css ow0dpz">{borr:0.3125rem solid #FF3A30;borr-radi:100%;ntent:'';display:block;height:2.1875rem;left:50%;marg:-0.99rem to 0 -1.33rem;posn:absolute;width:2.1875rem;}</style><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-ow0dpz eagam8p0"></span><style data-emotn="css la9czl">{font-fay:Lsanne,Lsanne-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:1.625rem;le-height:1.2;marg:0rem;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.75rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:2.375rem;le-height:1.2;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}{ntent:'"';display:block;font-fay:Lsanne,Lsanne-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:3.4375rem;le-height:0.72;font-style:alic;paddg:0.3125rem 0.875rem 0 0;}</style><blockquote class="css-la9czl e1pe3zr90">"A lot of people jt beltled , like <em>you don't have any talents</em>." </blockquote><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></blockquote></div><p data-no-id="20" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Then they beltle realy televisn, you know? A lot of people jt beltled , like <em>you don't have any talents</em>. They tried to shrk and dimish our impact, yet they didn't realize our impact was much bigger. When you have a disptor e along, they don't thk you are as powerful as you are, and then all of a sudn you're YouTube.</p><p data-no-id="21" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">I look back at the seri and I am jt so proud of what has happened over the years. And I walked the streets, I traveled. We didn't have money like the Kardashians, we didn’t lnch a vodka le that's worth a hundred ln dollars or whatever. We were the public, so we knew om engagg the public how the public was changg. I uld see that firsthand, you know, and was pretty imprsive.</p><p data-no-id="22" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><strong>It feels to me still like the queer muny is not great at supportg queer people. Straight alli we tend to give a lot of cred to, but up and g young queer people, we're still not great at supportg.</strong></p><p data-no-id="23" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">You do see other margalized groups that rally around and regnize, like, “this person did somethg for the women's e," or “she did somethg for people of lor," or whatever. It's still kd of…quandary-like. It's very odd. I don't ever see myself on the list of a hundred great gay people, like some are. It's h or miss wh me. I jt know what I did to change a lot of straight people's liv, to get them to accept their gay brothers and sisters, to start to addrs them as the people that are gog to vote for . That beme even more important to me, that reachg out that occurred.</p><p data-no-id="24" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><strong>Season one aired when I was llege, and a moment that they’ve replayed a bunch of tim </strong><strong><em>The Real World: Homeg</em></strong><strong> is you and Becky. She says, "I didn't meet any cute boys tonight,” and you say, "I didn't eher." That quick thg was so signifint for a young gay kid bee wasn't played for lghs. It was jt like, </strong><strong><em>Here are two people jt beg, and not havg to expla themselv, and not beg ma the butt of the joke. </em></strong><strong>It was small, but really signifint.</strong></p><p data-no-id="25" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">I'm glad you poted that out, bee I was Tower Rerds when they ran that as a promo clip. And was almost like I watched a shockwave, like someone had said "fuck" on televisn. I jt watched all the ey jt go big, like <em>did you hear that?</em> It’s so hard to scribe that part of the world that's no longer there. But that was the geni thg: wasn't g out there wh a tmpet. I uld've e out there wh my ACT UP stuff and I uld have really jt rammed down people's throats, but I jt really felt we've been gog so long, watchg people die and tryg to get people to support .</p><p data-no-id="26" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The only thg that I uld really thk that was equivalent is Robert Mapplethorpe. I knew Robert Mapplethorpe, bee I was very active the muny, and I’ve worked for a lot of big galleri. But that's what Ameri was gettg: Jse Helms up agast Robert Mapplethorpe and his very explic gay imag. And his work is amazg, but that's what was g out. You know you're gog to get the tulips and you're gog to get a whip somebody's ass. So I was like, <em>Someone's gog to unterbalance that. Someone's gog to e up wh the Ozzie and Harriet for ‘90s Ameri, so the rt of the world n say, “okay, there's a lot of different people this muny.”</em> There was a lot of risk, no one was really g out. But I did feel safe the gay muny of New York and what was happeng there. 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How is beg home different than was before New York?</strong></p><p data-no-id="29" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">I me om a really special Italian, Sicilian fay, very creative people, very loud and boistero. My grandmother was the matriarch of the fay, and I was the apple of her eye. We were thick as thiev. She ran a bar, all of 4’1” and she’d throw people out. But Michigan, was difficult for me. I went through a really tough patch middle school and high school, which led me to leave there. I went to a boardg school Michigan lled Interlochen Arts Amy, a big arts super high school, graduat like Alicia Keys and Jewel and Josh Groban and all of those characters. That really was very helpful for me to fd my way to a creative rource growg up. You know, 's kd of funny, we had a mock prom 1983, two guys ran for kg and queen, and they won. So was very different to go om the public school to the boardg school. I got to see people like that and everyone ually went off to New York Cy afterwards, so I was like, "you know, there's a place for me."</p><p data-no-id="30" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><strong>How has the experience been wh </strong><strong><em>Homeg</em></strong><strong>? Are you happy wh how all me out?</strong></p><p data-no-id="31" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">I thk I am, yeah. They've really done an credible job. The origal show was 22 mut an episo, so I'm really surprised to see that went to 40 mut. I didn't know they’d do that. So seems like the storytellg is a lot more round, they're givg you another bend the curve. I uld never que tell the first season, was my story too advanced, and that's why I was the background? I heard that a lot when the first season aired: <em>he seems tertg, why’s he always the background? </em>It always seemed like the meras would go wherever Eric was, but then as I got olr I realized: they jt didn't have the money. They only had like one or two mera crews and they uld barely afford their own food. When you're olr and you e back, you get to hear more of the producers’ story and what they were up agast tryg to get this thg on the air. </p><p data-no-id="32" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">On our backs, they've been able to make so many shows and brg so many stori to light. There are probably over 200 people who have been on this <em>Real World/Road Rul</em> tra. And they’ve brought so many stori, transgenr stori, gay people the ary stori, I mean, 's jt outstandg what this show has been able to brg to the people. I thk we really jt get unrlooked so much, people say <em>that was scripted</em> or <em>they're narcissistic</em>. No, there was somethg more than narcissism that drew me to this experience.</p><style data-emotn="css 1736von">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;clear:both;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="33" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="mtv real world season 1 st" tle="mtv real world season 1 st" loadg="lazy" width="1110" height="1366" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><style data-emotn="css swqnqv">@media(m-width: 20rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}</style><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-8h7i7x e1xqj1sx1">"People say <em>that was scripted or they’re narcissistic< em </em></div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1mcfn5x e6iqd2">MTV</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="34" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><strong>Especially back then, if you were offered an opportuny like this, why wouldn't you take ? You uldn’t possibly have known what would be.</strong></p><p data-no-id="35" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">You know, I jt knew that there were so many people that were dyg and they didn't have a voice. And I wasn't like an Elton John or somebody who had entire teams tellg them to stay the closet or we will lose money. I do remember a nversatn wh the producers, about the liabily sectn of the ntract: I was worried that once they started tellg my story, that if let’s say The Rollg Ston’ mic was playg the background, that I would be liable. Back then, if people saw somethg that was gay, they'd all lgh and smirk and say somethg awful and uld brand that artist’s mic horribly and then I uld be liable for . So if you put some Dire Stras song and I'm the scene and everyone's like, "Oh my God, that Dire Stras song mak me thk of a gay person,” and then Dire Stras gets upset, falls on my lap. And I looked at that ntract, I'm like, "You've got to change that around. I don't have ntrol of your ed." That was the world we lived .</p><p data-no-id="36" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><strong>God. Well, on a happier note, I see </strong><style data-emotn="css umdwtv">{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:#FF3A30;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:her;-webk-transn:background 0.4s;transn:background 0.4s;background:lear-gradient(#ffffff, #ffffff 50%, #d5dbe3 50%, #d5dbe3);-webk-background-size:100% 200%;background-size:100% 200%;}{lor:#000000;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;-webk-background-posn:100% 100%;background-posn:100% 100%;}</style><a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="the A Stands" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0"><strong><u>the A Stands</u></strong></a><strong> are sold out.</strong></p><p data-no-id="37" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">What sany that is. They’re still actually kd of stuck over Cha. I have another 180 of them that are stg a warehoe there. I did an ial n of 5,000. They st que a penny jt to do the ial n. And I own the molds and own all that stuff. But 's been really hard to nnect wh this to the public, durg a panmic and the whole b. But once people did nnect wh , wham, they bought up everythg that I had on Amazon, and then they started movg to the webse, and then was jt poppg off. I had like 80 of them storage California and I'm Michigan, so I’m llg my partner, like, "Get up, go ship them to people." He's like "What?" And I'm like "They're sellg!” </p><p data-no-id="38" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><strong>So do you have any plans to e back to California?</strong></p><p data-no-id="39" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Oh, absolutely. My bs partner and I have everythg operatg out of his place Rancho Mirage. I jt need my COVID shots, and then I’ll fly and discs. We are on the books to do another eratn of the A Stand. Pl I have my patgs and my stuff sttered to at least 12 different people's hom. </p><p data-no-id="40" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">My plan for my future is I'm gog to spl my time between Michigan and the high sert, bee I jt love that whole arts muny. I've done stuff wh the arts project that's out of the Bombay Beach. You know, I was the first Burng Man, I knew all the people the begng of Burng Man. In California I drive people plac that they have no ia about. I'm like, "You've never been to Deep Creek Hot Sprgs? We're gog." I always ve people om San Francis who poo on LA, and I'm like, “I'm jt gog to brg you to the three plac that will have your mouth drop out of your mouth,” you know?</p><style data-emotn="css 2ok9l4">{marg-top:1.875rem;borr-top:th solid #595959;}</style><div data-jam-id="thor-b" class="css-2ok9l4 e13rjwo40"><style data-emotn="css f0b5z8">{display:grid;grid-template-lumns:to 1;grid-lumn-gap:0.625rem;paddg-top:1.25rem;paddg-bottom:1.25rem;clear:both;}</style><div class="css-f0b5z8 e19xk9rq8"><style data-emotn="css irehmq">{borr-radi:50%;height:60px;width:60px;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{width:40px;height:40px;}}</style><span class="css-irehmq e19xk9rq1"><style data-emotn="css o0wq4v">{width:100%;height:100%;borr-radi:50%;vertil-align:middle;object-f:ver;}</style><img src="" alt="Headshot of Dave Holm" tle="Headshot of Dave Holm" width="100%" height="100%" dg="async" loadg="lazy" class="css-o0wq4v e19xk9rq3" /></span><div><style data-emotn="css 3sqxrq">{display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;grid-gap:4px;-webk-align-ems:basele;-webk-box-align:basele;-ms-flex-align:basele;align-ems:basele;-webk-box-flex-wrap:wrap;-webk-flex-wrap:wrap;-ms-flex-wrap:wrap;flex-wrap:wrap;}</style><div class="css-3sqxrq e19xk9rq7"><span class="css-0 e19xk9rq5"><style data-emotn="css 1yunoig">{lor:#161616;font-fay:Lsanne,Lsanne-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacg:0.02rem;-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-lor:her;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-transform:upperse;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.4;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.3;}}{lor:#595959;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;}</style><style data-emotn="css 1kgdfad">{lor:#161616;font-fay:Lsanne,Lsanne-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacg:0.02rem;text-transform:upperse;lor:#161616;font-fay:Lsanne,Lsanne-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacg:0.02rem;-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-lor:her;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-transform:upperse;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.4;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.3;}}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.4;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.3;}}{lor:#595959;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;}</style><a href="/thor/9774/dave-holm/" class="e1c1bym13 css-1kgdfad e1c1bym14"><span>Dave Holm</span></a></span></div><style data-emotn="css pqlu">{lor:#161616;font-fay:Lsanne,Lsanne-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacg:0.02rem;marg-top:0.625rem;text-transform:upperse;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.4;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.3;}}</style><div class="css-pqlu e19xk9rq6">Edor-at-Large</div><style data-emotn="css 1b1navg">{display:-webk-box;font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1rem;le-height:1.4;overflow:hidn;paddg-top:0.3125rem;-webk-box-orient:vertil;-webk-le-clamp:5;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{-webk-le-clamp:10;}}>*{display:le;} em{font-fay:CharterItalic,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-style:alic;} p{marg:0rem;} p a{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:her;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;} p a:hover{text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;}</style><div class="css-1b1navg e19xk9rq4"><p>Dave Holm is Esquire's L.A.-based edor-at-large. 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