Hal Fischer: Gay Semtics - ARTBOOK|D.A.P.

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• A HISTORY OF L.A.’S GAY BAR SCENE, TOLD MATCHBOOKS
• HAL FISCHER: GAY SEMTICS
• ALLEGATNS OF MANOSPHERE PASTOR’S GAY PAST ROIL MACHO MENBONDED?JSE LEE PETERSON HAS EMERGED AS ONE OF THE RIGHT’S MOST VOL ANTI-GAY FIGUR, BUT HIS ONE-TIME IENDS NOW ALLEGE THAT THE PASTOR HAS HAD MANY SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS.WILL SOMMERPOLICS REPORTERPUBLISHED JUL. 13, 2022 4:59AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THOMAS LEVSON/THE DAILY BEAST/GETTYIN THE HYPER-MASCULE RIGHT-WG TER MUNY KNOWN AS THE “MANOSPHERE,” FEW FIGUR LOOM LARGER THAN JSE LEE PETERSON.THE LOS ANGEL-BASED PASTOR AND ONLE RAD HOST HAS BEE A STAR NSERVATIVE MEDIA PART FOR HIS MANDS THAT MEN AND WOMEN RETURN TO HIS UNORTHODOX VERSN OF TRADNAL GENR NORMS. PETERSON’S IAS ABOUT GENR N BE ECCENTRIC EVEN BY THE STANDARDS OF HIS PATRTS, WH PETERSON CLAIMG THAT A WOMAN WHO ASMS DURG SEX IS SOMEHOW “BEG A MAN,” A PRACTICE HE OWNS UPON.PETERSON HAS ALSO EMERGED AS ONE OF THE RIGHT’S MOST VOL ANTI-GAY FIGUR. HE’S CLAIMED THAT PEOPLE WHO MARCH GAY PRI PARAS ARE THE CHILDREN OF SATAN, AND THAT “RADIL HOMOSEXUALS ARE EVIL.” HE’S BEE A REGULAR SPARRG PARTNER FOR PROGRSIVE YOUTUBE PERSONALI, TELLG ONLE MENTATOR “DTY” 2020 THAT HE DIDN’T UNRSTAND WHY HIS BATG PARTNER WAS OPENLY BISEXUAL.“I DON’T UNRSTAND THE PURPOSE OF PUTTG THAT OUT THERE,” PETERSON SAID. “PEOPLE ARE GOG TO JUDGE YOU, THEY’RE GOG TO LOOK DOWN ON YOU.” NOW SEVERAL OF PETERSON’S ONE-TIME IENDS ALLEGE THAT THE PASTOR’S OWN PERSONAL LIFE IS RIFE WH GAY SEXUAL RELATNSHIPS.TWO OF PETER’S FORMER MALE ASSOCIAT ME OUT JUNE WH ON-THE-RERD TERVIEWS SAYG THEY ENGAGED SEXUAL ACTIVI WH HIM, WHILE OTHER MEN SAY HE PROPOSNED THEM. THE ALLEGATNS ABOUT THE PASTOR—WHO PUBLIC IS STNCHLY HETEROSEXUAL—HAVE RIPPED LIKE AN EARTHQUAKE THROUGH THE MANOSPHERE, PROMPTG SOME OF PETERSON’S ALLI TO ABANDON HIM AND PROMPTG ONE MANOSPHERE NFERENCE TO BAN HIM.“I’M VERY SORRY TO HAVE JSE’S SUATN DAMAGE THE NSERVATIVE MOVEMENT,” PATRICK ROONEY, ONE OF THE MEN WHO CLAIMS TO HAVE HAD A SEXUAL RELATNSHIP WH PETERSON, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. THE DAILY BEAST WAS NOT ABLE TO SUBSTANTIATE THE SEXUAL ALLEGATNS. PETERSON’S MISTRY, A CALIFORNIA “BROTHERHOOD ANIZATN” KNOWN AS BOND, DID NOT RPOND TO MULTIPLE REQUTS FOR MENT.THIS ISN’T THE FIRST TIME THE MANOSPHERE HAS BEEN ROILED BY NTROVERSY THE PAST YEAR. IN DECEMBER 2021, A MANOSPHERE FLUENCER WHO GO BY THE ALIAS JACK MURPHY WAS OUTED FOR FILMG HIMSELF AN OUTLANDISH SERI OF ONLE PORN VIOS, PROMPTG HIS OIME ALLI TO TURN ON HIM. THAT SAME MONTH, A MANOSPHERE FLUENCER MURRED FIVE PEOPLE A DENVER RAMPAGE BEFORE BEG FATALLY SHOT BY POLICE. IN APRIL, ROMANIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT RAID THE HOME OF A PROMENT BRISH MANOSPHERE FIGURE AS PART OF A HUMAN-TRAFFICKG VTIGATN.THE ALLEGATNS AGAST PETERSON BROKE TO THE PUBLIC VIEW JUNE, WHEN CHURCH MILANT, A RADIL RIGHT-WG CATHOLIC WEBSE THAT ONCE HOSTED HATE FIGURE MILO YIANNOPOULOS, RELEASED A NEARLY 30-MUTE VTIGATN TO PETERSON LLED “AMAZG DISGRACE.”IN THE VIO, A CHURCH MILANT REPORTER TERVIEWED TWO MEN WHO ALLEGED HAVG SEXUAL NTACT WH PETERSON, AS WELL ANOTHER MAN WHO SAID PETERSON HAD PROPOSNED THEM.THE VIO PROMENTLY FEATUR ROONEY, WHO EQUENTLY APPEARED ON TV AND ONLE SHOWS WH PETERSON FOR S. PETERSON, WHO IS BLACK, ONCE PRAISED ROONEY ON HIS SHOW AS “ONE OF THE SMARTT WHE MEN THIS SI OF HEAVEN.” BUT THE CHURCH MILANT VIO, ROONEY ALLEG THEIR RELATNSHIP WENT FURTHER THAN IENDSHIP AFTER PETERSON SEXUALLY APPROACHED HIM 2005.“NEXT THG YOU KNOW, HE’S RIPPG HIS CLOTH OFF,” ROONEY SAID.ROONEY CLAIMS THE TWO MEN HAD A ROUGHLY 10-YEAR SEXUAL RELATNSHIP AFTER THAT FIRST CINT, UNTIL ROONEY, WHO IS MARRIED TO A WOMAN, BROKE OFF THE RELATNSHIP AND NFSED THE AFFAIR TO HIS WIFE.ROONEY TOLD THE DAILY BEAST HE DON’T HAVE EMAILS, TEXT MSAG, OR RERDGS THAT ULD PROVE HIS ALLEGATNS.“JSE LEE PETERSON IS A VERY SMART PERSON, HE’S A SLY PERSON,” ROONEY SAID. “HE’S NOT GOG TO LEAVE A LOT OF EXTRANEO EVINCE OUT ABOUT WHAT HE DO” ANOTHER MAN, SAMUEL ARAMBULA, ALLEGED THE CHURCH MILANT VIO THAT HE HAD STARTED TO HANG OUT WH PETERSON AT THE “BOND HOE,” A LOS ANGEL HOME WHERE PETERSON PURPORTEDLY LIV WH OTHER MALE MEMBERS OF HIS RELIG “BROTHERHOOD,” MAY 2020. SOON AFTER THAT, ARAMBULA CLAIMED THE VIO, PETERSON APPROACHED ARAMBULA AND BEGAN BBG ARAMBULA’S THIGHS AND GENALS. (WHILE THE VIO PAR PETERSON TO A PEDOPHILE PRIT, THE YOUNGT MAN HE ALLEGEDLY HAD SEXUAL NTACT WH WAS 30 YEARS OLD).ROBERT SANTNER, WHO SCRIBED HIMSELF AS THE BOND HOE’S FORMER MANAGER, CLAIMED HE WNSED PETERSON ACTG PHYSILLY AFFECTNATE TOWARDS MEN WAYS THAT HE EMED SPIC—CLUDG ONE BIZARRE CINT WH PETERSON AND ANOTHER MAN. IN SANTNER’S TELLG, HE WALKED ON THE PAIR AS THE UNNAMED MAN WAS WRAPPED UP A BLANKET “LIKE A BURRO,” WHILE PETERSON HUGGED HIM AND KISSED HIS FOREHEAD. SANTNER ALSO ALLEG THAT PETERSON ONCE NONTED HIM WHILE MASSAGG HIS OWN GENALS, BEFORE SG AT HIM AND WALKG AWAY.CHURCH MILANT’S FOUNR, ANTHONY MICHAEL VORIS, HAS A HISTORY OF TRA-RIGHT PROVOTNS, AND WAS ONCE SCRIBED BY THE NATNAL CATHOLIC REPORTER AS “ONE OF THE U.S. CATHOLIC CHURCH’S MOST FAMO AGATORS.” CHURCH MILANT IS CURRENTLY BEG SUED BY A CATHOLIC PRIT FOR FAMATN AN UNRELATED SE.IN AN EMAIL TO THE DAILY BEAST, AN UNNAMED PERSON OPERATG CHURCH MILANT’S “EDOR” EMAIL SAID THE VIO WAS A RPONSE TO THE OUTLET’S FEAR THAT PETERSON’S “LARGE FOLLOWG OF YOUNG CATHOLIC MEN” WOULD BE MISLED BY THE PASTOR. SHORTLY BEFORE THE VIO’S RELEASE, VORIS AND PETERSON HAD SPARRED OVER CHRISTIAN DOCTRE AN ONLE VIO SHOW.PETERSON, WHO IS NOT MARRIED, HAS MOSTLY AVOID RPONDG TO THE ALLEGATNS. BUT LATE JUNE, A LLER TO HIS ONLE SHOW MANAGED TO BREAK THROUGH.“I’M JT KD OF NFED,” THE FEMALE LLER SAID. “WHY HAVEN’T YOU ADDRSED THE ISSUE OF THE GAY DOCUMENTARY?”“UH, ’S NOT NCERNG TO ME,” PETERSON TOLD HIS DIENCE AS HE HUNG UP ON HER. “WHAT A WICKED WOMAN!”THE CHURCH MILANT VIO HAS ROILED PETERSON’S HYPER-MASCULE NSERVATIVE MUNY. ANTHONY DREAM JOHNSON, THE ANIZER OF A SERI OF MANOSPHERE NVENTNS WHERE PETERSON HAS APPEARED AND THE SELF-PROCLAIMED “FIRST PRINT OF THE MANOSPHERE,” WROTE A JUNE 22 NEWSLETTER THAT MANY MANOSPHERE MEMBERS WERE “OUTRAGED” AND “GOG THROUGH THE BEGNG STAG OF GRIEF.”“I’VE NEVER WNSED THIS LEVEL OF EXTREME HYPOCRISY AND D BEFORE MY PROFSNAL REER,” JOHNSON WROTE, BEFORE CLOSG THE NEWSLETTER WH THE MSAGE “MAY JSE BURN HELL.”JOHNSON CLAIMS THAT HE’S BANNED PETERSON OM HIS FUTURE MANOSPHERE NFERENC.SOME OF PETERSON’S ACCERS AND THEIR SUPPORTERS HAVE STARTED PICKETG OUTSI OF BOND’S OFFICE, PROMPTG AT LEAST ONE POLICE VIS TO THE SE OVER HARASSMENT NCERNS, ACRDG TO A VIO VIEWED BY THE DAILY BEAST. IN THE VIO, POLICE WARNED THE APPARENTLY PEACEFUL PROTTERS NOT TO GET AGGRSIVE WH ANYONE ENTERG THE BUILDG.ROONEY IALLY REFED TO TALK TO THE DAILY BEAST, CLAIMG HE WAS AAID THAT HIS ALLEGED RELATNSHIP WH PETERSON WOULD HURT THE BROAR AMERIN NSERVATIVE MOVEMENT. BUT HE CHANGED HIS MD AFTER NSIRG WHAT HE SCRIB AS PETERSON’S HYPOCRISY TOWARDS GAY PEOPLE.“YOU CERTALY WANT TO GO AFTER JSE AS A HYPOCRE, WHICH HE IS—A HYPOCRE,” ROONEY SAID. WILL SOMMER

A HISTORY OF L.A.’S GAY BAR SCENE, TOLD MATCHBOOKS

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Gay bars and sex clubs, most of them now closed. -based queer artist who was a regular at a number of the spots worked briefly as a barback at Cuffs, a major gay hangout of the recent “was credibly dark and super cisey, ” Jony rells.

HAL FISCHER: GAY SEMTICS

“As Silver Lake — and the whole landspe of gay Hollywood and the east si — changed so much I always had this ia my head of turng the place back to Cuffs for one night, ” he says. The early ’90s, there were more than a dozen [gay bars] on the east si.

”The closg of many east-si gay bars n be blamed, part, on gentrifitn’s effect on rents.

It also n be argued that the ongog expansn of jt what queerns n mean uld have ma a segment of gay bars, which thrived a sort of self-intified exclivy, obsolete. “I’m not one of them, ” Jony says, “but a lot of gay men my age and a generatn olr like to talk about the days of male-only spac and what that meant to them.

ALLEGATNS OF MANOSPHERE PASTOR’S GAY PAST ROIL MACHO MENBONDED?JSE LEE PETERSON HAS EMERGED AS ONE OF THE RIGHT’S MOST VOL ANTI-GAY FIGUR, BUT HIS ONE-TIME IENDS NOW ALLEGE THAT THE PASTOR HAS HAD MANY SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS.WILL SOMMERPOLICS REPORTERPUBLISHED JUL. 13, 2022 4:59AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THOMAS LEVSON/THE DAILY BEAST/GETTYIN THE HYPER-MASCULE RIGHT-WG TER MUNY KNOWN AS THE “MANOSPHERE,” FEW FIGUR LOOM LARGER THAN JSE LEE PETERSON.THE LOS ANGEL-BASED PASTOR AND ONLE RAD HOST HAS BEE A STAR NSERVATIVE MEDIA PART FOR HIS MANDS THAT MEN AND WOMEN RETURN TO HIS UNORTHODOX VERSN OF TRADNAL GENR NORMS. PETERSON’S IAS ABOUT GENR N BE ECCENTRIC EVEN BY THE STANDARDS OF HIS PATRTS, WH PETERSON CLAIMG THAT A WOMAN WHO ASMS DURG SEX IS SOMEHOW “BEG A MAN,” A PRACTICE HE OWNS UPON.PETERSON HAS ALSO EMERGED AS ONE OF THE RIGHT’S MOST VOL ANTI-GAY FIGUR. HE’S CLAIMED THAT PEOPLE WHO MARCH GAY PRI PARAS ARE THE CHILDREN OF SATAN, AND THAT “RADIL HOMOSEXUALS ARE EVIL.” HE’S BEE A REGULAR SPARRG PARTNER FOR PROGRSIVE YOUTUBE PERSONALI, TELLG ONLE MENTATOR “DTY” 2020 THAT HE DIDN’T UNRSTAND WHY HIS BATG PARTNER WAS OPENLY BISEXUAL.“I DON’T UNRSTAND THE PURPOSE OF PUTTG THAT OUT THERE,” PETERSON SAID. “PEOPLE ARE GOG TO JUDGE YOU, THEY’RE GOG TO LOOK DOWN ON YOU.” NOW SEVERAL OF PETERSON’S ONE-TIME IENDS ALLEGE THAT THE PASTOR’S OWN PERSONAL LIFE IS RIFE WH GAY SEXUAL RELATNSHIPS.TWO OF PETER’S FORMER MALE ASSOCIAT ME OUT JUNE WH ON-THE-RERD TERVIEWS SAYG THEY ENGAGED SEXUAL ACTIVI WH HIM, WHILE OTHER MEN SAY HE PROPOSNED THEM. THE ALLEGATNS ABOUT THE PASTOR—WHO PUBLIC IS STNCHLY HETEROSEXUAL—HAVE RIPPED LIKE AN EARTHQUAKE THROUGH THE MANOSPHERE, PROMPTG SOME OF PETERSON’S ALLI TO ABANDON HIM AND PROMPTG ONE MANOSPHERE NFERENCE TO BAN HIM.“I’M VERY SORRY TO HAVE JSE’S SUATN DAMAGE THE NSERVATIVE MOVEMENT,” PATRICK ROONEY, ONE OF THE MEN WHO CLAIMS TO HAVE HAD A SEXUAL RELATNSHIP WH PETERSON, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. THE DAILY BEAST WAS NOT ABLE TO SUBSTANTIATE THE SEXUAL ALLEGATNS. PETERSON’S MISTRY, A CALIFORNIA “BROTHERHOOD ANIZATN” KNOWN AS BOND, DID NOT RPOND TO MULTIPLE REQUTS FOR MENT.THIS ISN’T THE FIRST TIME THE MANOSPHERE HAS BEEN ROILED BY NTROVERSY THE PAST YEAR. IN DECEMBER 2021, A MANOSPHERE FLUENCER WHO GO BY THE ALIAS JACK MURPHY WAS OUTED FOR FILMG HIMSELF AN OUTLANDISH SERI OF ONLE PORN VIOS, PROMPTG HIS OIME ALLI TO TURN ON HIM. THAT SAME MONTH, A MANOSPHERE FLUENCER MURRED FIVE PEOPLE A DENVER RAMPAGE BEFORE BEG FATALLY SHOT BY POLICE. IN APRIL, ROMANIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT RAID THE HOME OF A PROMENT BRISH MANOSPHERE FIGURE AS PART OF A HUMAN-TRAFFICKG VTIGATN.THE ALLEGATNS AGAST PETERSON BROKE TO THE PUBLIC VIEW JUNE, WHEN CHURCH MILANT, A RADIL RIGHT-WG CATHOLIC WEBSE THAT ONCE HOSTED HATE FIGURE MILO YIANNOPOULOS, RELEASED A NEARLY 30-MUTE VTIGATN TO PETERSON LLED “AMAZG DISGRACE.”IN THE VIO, A CHURCH MILANT REPORTER TERVIEWED TWO MEN WHO ALLEGED HAVG SEXUAL NTACT WH PETERSON, AS WELL ANOTHER MAN WHO SAID PETERSON HAD PROPOSNED THEM.THE VIO PROMENTLY FEATUR ROONEY, WHO EQUENTLY APPEARED ON TV AND ONLE SHOWS WH PETERSON FOR S. PETERSON, WHO IS BLACK, ONCE PRAISED ROONEY ON HIS SHOW AS “ONE OF THE SMARTT WHE MEN THIS SI OF HEAVEN.” BUT THE CHURCH MILANT VIO, ROONEY ALLEG THEIR RELATNSHIP WENT FURTHER THAN IENDSHIP AFTER PETERSON SEXUALLY APPROACHED HIM 2005.“NEXT THG YOU KNOW, HE’S RIPPG HIS CLOTH OFF,” ROONEY SAID.ROONEY CLAIMS THE TWO MEN HAD A ROUGHLY 10-YEAR SEXUAL RELATNSHIP AFTER THAT FIRST CINT, UNTIL ROONEY, WHO IS MARRIED TO A WOMAN, BROKE OFF THE RELATNSHIP AND NFSED THE AFFAIR TO HIS WIFE.ROONEY TOLD THE DAILY BEAST HE DON’T HAVE EMAILS, TEXT MSAG, OR RERDGS THAT ULD PROVE HIS ALLEGATNS.“JSE LEE PETERSON IS A VERY SMART PERSON, HE’S A SLY PERSON,” ROONEY SAID. “HE’S NOT GOG TO LEAVE A LOT OF EXTRANEO EVINCE OUT ABOUT WHAT HE DO” ANOTHER MAN, SAMUEL ARAMBULA, ALLEGED THE CHURCH MILANT VIO THAT HE HAD STARTED TO HANG OUT WH PETERSON AT THE “BOND HOE,” A LOS ANGEL HOME WHERE PETERSON PURPORTEDLY LIV WH OTHER MALE MEMBERS OF HIS RELIG “BROTHERHOOD,” MAY 2020. SOON AFTER THAT, ARAMBULA CLAIMED THE VIO, PETERSON APPROACHED ARAMBULA AND BEGAN BBG ARAMBULA’S THIGHS AND GENALS. (WHILE THE VIO PAR PETERSON TO A PEDOPHILE PRIT, THE YOUNGT MAN HE ALLEGEDLY HAD SEXUAL NTACT WH WAS 30 YEARS OLD).ROBERT SANTNER, WHO SCRIBED HIMSELF AS THE BOND HOE’S FORMER MANAGER, CLAIMED HE WNSED PETERSON ACTG PHYSILLY AFFECTNATE TOWARDS MEN WAYS THAT HE EMED SPIC—CLUDG ONE BIZARRE CINT WH PETERSON AND ANOTHER MAN. IN SANTNER’S TELLG, HE WALKED ON THE PAIR AS THE UNNAMED MAN WAS WRAPPED UP A BLANKET “LIKE A BURRO,” WHILE PETERSON HUGGED HIM AND KISSED HIS FOREHEAD. SANTNER ALSO ALLEG THAT PETERSON ONCE NONTED HIM WHILE MASSAGG HIS OWN GENALS, BEFORE SG AT HIM AND WALKG AWAY.CHURCH MILANT’S FOUNR, ANTHONY MICHAEL VORIS, HAS A HISTORY OF TRA-RIGHT PROVOTNS, AND WAS ONCE SCRIBED BY THE NATNAL CATHOLIC REPORTER AS “ONE OF THE U.S. CATHOLIC CHURCH’S MOST FAMO AGATORS.” CHURCH MILANT IS CURRENTLY BEG SUED BY A CATHOLIC PRIT FOR FAMATN AN UNRELATED SE.IN AN EMAIL TO THE DAILY BEAST, AN UNNAMED PERSON OPERATG CHURCH MILANT’S “EDOR” EMAIL SAID THE VIO WAS A RPONSE TO THE OUTLET’S FEAR THAT PETERSON’S “LARGE FOLLOWG OF YOUNG CATHOLIC MEN” WOULD BE MISLED BY THE PASTOR. SHORTLY BEFORE THE VIO’S RELEASE, VORIS AND PETERSON HAD SPARRED OVER CHRISTIAN DOCTRE AN ONLE VIO SHOW.PETERSON, WHO IS NOT MARRIED, HAS MOSTLY AVOID RPONDG TO THE ALLEGATNS. BUT LATE JUNE, A LLER TO HIS ONLE SHOW MANAGED TO BREAK THROUGH.“I’M JT KD OF NFED,” THE FEMALE LLER SAID. “WHY HAVEN’T YOU ADDRSED THE ISSUE OF THE GAY DOCUMENTARY?”“UH, ’S NOT NCERNG TO ME,” PETERSON TOLD HIS DIENCE AS HE HUNG UP ON HER. “WHAT A WICKED WOMAN!”THE CHURCH MILANT VIO HAS ROILED PETERSON’S HYPER-MASCULE NSERVATIVE MUNY. ANTHONY DREAM JOHNSON, THE ANIZER OF A SERI OF MANOSPHERE NVENTNS WHERE PETERSON HAS APPEARED AND THE SELF-PROCLAIMED “FIRST PRINT OF THE MANOSPHERE,” WROTE A JUNE 22 NEWSLETTER THAT MANY MANOSPHERE MEMBERS WERE “OUTRAGED” AND “GOG THROUGH THE BEGNG STAG OF GRIEF.”“I’VE NEVER WNSED THIS LEVEL OF EXTREME HYPOCRISY AND D BEFORE MY PROFSNAL REER,” JOHNSON WROTE, BEFORE CLOSG THE NEWSLETTER WH THE MSAGE “MAY JSE BURN HELL.”JOHNSON CLAIMS THAT HE’S BANNED PETERSON OM HIS FUTURE MANOSPHERE NFERENC.SOME OF PETERSON’S ACCERS AND THEIR SUPPORTERS HAVE STARTED PICKETG OUTSI OF BOND’S OFFICE, PROMPTG AT LEAST ONE POLICE VIS TO THE SE OVER HARASSMENT NCERNS, ACRDG TO A VIO VIEWED BY THE DAILY BEAST. IN THE VIO, POLICE WARNED THE APPARENTLY PEACEFUL PROTTERS NOT TO GET AGGRSIVE WH ANYONE ENTERG THE BUILDG.ROONEY IALLY REFED TO TALK TO THE DAILY BEAST, CLAIMG HE WAS AAID THAT HIS ALLEGED RELATNSHIP WH PETERSON WOULD HURT THE BROAR AMERIN NSERVATIVE MOVEMENT. BUT HE CHANGED HIS MD AFTER NSIRG WHAT HE SCRIB AS PETERSON’S HYPOCRISY TOWARDS GAY PEOPLE.“YOU CERTALY WANT TO GO AFTER JSE AS A HYPOCRE, WHICH HE IS—A HYPOCRE,” ROONEY SAID. WILL SOMMER

” Jony is pleased that anyone who intifi as male — trans men, for example — are now more wele at gay bars than they were the past. A third factor the shrkg number of gay bars L. ’s gay bar scene was headier, wilr and perhaps more excgly illic.

On McKuen's webse, he answered a qutn om a rear who asked if Pearson was gay.

Was Jse Pearson, AKA Conrad Birdie gay?

And, I remember that there was much ntroversy about him beg gay. I even remember that I asked one of my Aunts, when I was llege, if Jse was gay and she said she didn't thk so. I know there was much he uld have told a gay boy om a small town about what the world was really like.

I'm glad that tim are different now and that I don't have to share the same thgs wh the young gay sons of my iends.

After all, until I was 20, he was the only gay person I ever remember hearg about. A) He more than likely was gay, and didn't likely die of ncer but AIDS. Wh that said, I mt ment on the 'gay' thg, somethg I beme cur about bee of a few suggted ments I read.