Vintage, but not ready for Antiques Roadshow, ass by Locky Brownlie (GIF by Matthew Rettenmund)
ABOVE: In honor of the announcement that a virtual Broadway Bares is returning, a GIF from an earlier installment.
ABOVE: Meshin' around.
Stanley C. Burkhardt (Image via mug shot)
The death of a gay teen hustler in New Orleans in 1982 was not ruled homicide or suicide when his body was fished from the Mississippi. Four days in the water had obscured any superficial signs of foul play, so investigators wrote it off as just another hooker's death due to misadventure.
But one man who was convinced 17-year-old Eddie Dirt aka Edward Wells may have been murdered was Det. Stanley C. Burkhardt, who went on record saying he thought perhaps Wells could've been killed by a john, noting that someone had called his mom to say she'd never seen him alive again, and pointing out that a list of clients was also missing.
Shockingly, 36 years later, the cold case is warming up — and it's because that very same detective is now a person of interest ...
Above: When you're jealous of a block of ice.
Below: Keep reading for the hottest links of the day ...
(Image via Capturing Rainbows)
Bob Young has been posting some incredible reminiscences within the Facebook group Capturing Rainbows, most recently one about his debut as a bartender at Lafitte's in New Orleans back in 1979 ...
James Schneider, a gay, Jewish man running for City Countil in Cape Coral, Florida, says the KKK has threatened his life in a hateful message left at his home a week ago.
The note says, “We know where you live, faggot,” which is the kind of veiled threat cowardly stalkers use in order to avoid out-and-out stating their intentions.
Police have not yet classified it as a hate crime. Welcome to Florida. Keep reading for this and more hot links of the day, including: Will Trump bomb North Korea? and Madonna's move out of the country ...
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The New York Times: The more things change, the more they stay the same — religious objections to blasphemous gay play The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told. Tickets!
Lavell Crawford (Video still via VLADTV)
BET: Comic Lavell Crawford's own father was gay, but he says being gay is “still f*cking weird,” conflates it with the trans push for bathroom rights, says we're not born gay.
YouTube @ AXS TV: Sheryl Crow clucks her tongue at Madonna (by name) and probably Beyoncé and Nicki Minaj, among others, by implication, for having sexy art:
Joe.My.God.: Nikki Haley is the highest-ranking Trumpster to acknowledge and demand answers about the Chechen concentration camp for gay men.
Towleroad: When you don't want cops to keep their hands to themselves:
Joe's Pub: Do not miss Unitard if you're in NYC in May — I saw them once and fell in love, and saw Nora Burns solo once and fell even harder.
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Ciara McElveen (Handout photo)
Via Crime Watch Daily: Police in New Orleans have released surveillance video in the murder case of trans woman Ciara McElveen, who was stabbed multiple times on February 27, dying later at a hospital.
The newly released video, above, shows a glimpse of a man police are IDing as a person of interest in the case.
Call Det. Joseph Jefferson at (504) 658-5300 with any info you may have.
McElveen's murder was the second murder of a trans woman in New Orleans in a 48-hour period.
