Though, as Marc writes, Jo's "career" was such an epic failure, calling him a "star" may be pushing it a bit.
I love Jobriath - though the records are hilariously bad, that's why no-one bought them - and his singing voice was so painful I doubt even his own mother could maintain the pretence of loving it.
I'm not convinced his sexuality came into it.
A compilation put out by fanboy Morrissey a few years ago is reputed to have sold 40 copies.
I also love Marc, but his claim; "Everyone hated Jobriath – even, and especially, gay people. He was embarrassingly effeminate in an era of leather and handlebar moustaches" is just silly.
Jobriath appeared a few years before the clone look took hold - which was never something embraced by most gay men - and when it appeared Jo embraced it.
Someone is writing a biography of Jobriath - almost finished it then lost it all in a computer crash.
Argh.
There's a documentary - Jobriath AD - at the London Lesbian And Gay Film Festival tomorrow.
All sold out, but that may have less to do with interest in Jobriath, and more to do with the LL&GFF being one big pick-up joint for posh arty gaylords.
Update: The Guardian repeated the fiction that "the gay community despised the "sissy" look" in an online review of the film. Doubtless this will be appearing as "fact" on Wikipedia soon.
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Have you seen the film? Apparently not, since SEVERAL gay men who were actually there at the time talked at length about how gay men at the time were moving towards a more masculine image and shunning anything they felt seemed too effeminate. That's why Marc said it and that's why the review said it, because it's testimony from people in the film, people who were in the know.
ReplyDeleteSo gay men "especially" hated gay men?
ReplyDeleteAnd "the gay community despised the 'sissy' look"
Are these statements true or false?