Leee Black Childers

Dorothy Parker, River Phoenix, Henry Willson, Billy Kay, Tab Hunter, Sal Mineo, James Dean, Natalie Kalmus, Joan Crawford, Clara Bow, Talullah Bankhead, Robert Benchley, Clarence Darrow, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Anita Loos, Rosalind Russell,

Myrna Loy (one of these days I'll tell you an amusing story about this brave and outspoken lady), Betty Grable, Bobby Beausoliel, Candy Darling, Scarlet O'Hara, Andy Warhol, Brad Davis, Carmen Miranda, Lillian Hellman, Lillian Gish, Lupe Velez, Lady Elsie Mendl, Jed & Jay Johnson, Billy Haines, Barbara Hutton & Lance Reventlow, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

The great Mick Ronson!! And, can you imagine my thrill to have photos that I took become a giant billboard in Times Square?!? Speaking of Times Square, the area itself is a hero of mine. Of course, I remember the forbidden lusty lustful days which were so great. Here are the Marbles in 1976 in the middle of 42nsd Street when it was the real stuff!

Photo by me! It was from the denizens of Times Square, Pershing Square, Piccadilly Circus, and the Tenderloin that I formulated my philosophy as so perfectly outlined by John Rechy in City Of Night when his great heroine, Miss Destiny, takes the floor -- "Oh, God! ... Sometimes when Im very high and sitting maybe at the 1-2-3, I imagine that an angel suddenly appears and stands on t he balcony where the band is going -- or maybe Im on Main Street or in Pershing Square -- and the angel says, 'All right, boys and girls, this is it, the world is ending, and Heaven or Hell will be to spend eternity just as you are now, in the same place among the same people -- Forever! And hearing this, I'm terrified and I know suddenly what that means -- and I start to run but I cant run fast enough for the evil angel, he sees me and stops me and Im Caught..." -------"The City Of Night", John Rechy

And, of course, my own Miss Destiny, Jackie Curtis!
While we're in the neighborhood, we should mention that while all things change they stay the same. My new romantic heroes, the "Dilly Boys", nearly all skinheads, and one and all fascinating!

Disney and his do-gooders can scrub and scour, but life will go on!!!
And to my astonishment, a photographer I have found:

Anthony Goicolea. Look him up! Hundreds of brilliant photo/art self-portraits! Gasp.

And the inspiration to many of us -- Walter Santesso, the original Paparazzo! (La Dolce Vita)
If there was ever papparazi material, here they are --

Cherry Vanilla, Donna Destri, Cyrinda Foxe, and Holly Woodlawn at Limelight!!
And a final round of applause for Dorian Corey, the queen and star of "Paris Is Burning"

She had the great final speech of the film -- and then, (in real life) after she died, they found a mummified rent boy/drug dealer who had been in a garment bag in her closet for thirty years!!!!!!!!!!!!!