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+ *Oliver* · October 10, 2021

Bob Bishop!😄

Whitman · October 10, 2021

Whitman · October 11, 2021

GEORGE DYER, lover and muse of the painter FRANCIS BACON, seen here circa 1964 (the year after he met Bacon) in the painter's Reece Mews Studio. Photographs by JOHN DEAKIN.

In October 1971, two days before the opening of a career-making exhibition of Bacon's work at the Grand Palais in Paris, Dyer died by suicide at 37. Bacon's commemorative portraits of Dyer completed in the following years are considered by many to be his finest work.

Below, Bacon and Dyer in 1965 in another photograph taken by John Deakin.

Danny-Darko · October 11, 2021

Paul Barresi

This old-school performer was a Colt Model thanks to his beefy body and authentically straight air before he appeared in the gay classic L.A. Tool & Die (1979). He made gay and straight films, acted legitimately (and so close to Paul Lynde he was among those who discovered the icon's body when he died), produced and directed. However, he's probably most well known for telling National Enquirer in 1990 that he'd banged John Travolta for two years. One of the industry's most colorful personalities.