I was murdered by rough trade!

Are you writing from Hell?

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Sebastian Venable

Anita Eckberg

Mamie Van Doren

Bob Crane

I wasn't murdered by rough trade, but my mussy was!

Luise Rainer

Vince Foster

Eddie Murphy's transvestite

Rudolph Moshammer

Danny Lockin

Theresa Dunn

Mamie Van Doren is a pig. Hopefully 2015 will be her year to join the staff of Charlie Hebdo.

Dominique Dunn (from Poltergeist)

What exactly happened to George Rose? Wasn't it some young guy that killed him?

Dunne wasn't killed by rough trade

[bold] When George Rose, British actor and Broadway star, was brutally tortured and murdered in the Caribbean in 1988, his adopted son, although charged with the crime, never stood trial. [/bold]

R16: She was strangled to death by her ex boyfriend. Trade doesn't get much rougher than that.

Jesus

Matthew Shepard

It may be pointless to suggest here that there is good reason to believe that Pasolini was a hit, staged to look like a pick up gone bad. There was an objective inquiry paid for by friends that raised serious doubts about the official story. As a left wing, openly gay critic of the collusion between the Vatican and the Mafia and American attempts to destabilize the world he had well placed and determined enemies.

Danny Lockin.

George Rose was not killed by rough trade. He fell in love with a teenage boy who lived near his island home in the Dominican Republic. He adopted the boy, whose father was still alive, and named him his sole heir.

Then the boy grew a couple years older and discovered girls. Rose grew annoyed that the boy was no longer willing to tolerate his physical attention. Rose loudly and foolishly declared to others that he would disinherit the boy and soon. Before he could do that, the boy's father and uncle kidnapped Rose, tortured him and killed him.

The murder was staged to look like a car accident and the police were willing to sweep it under the rug. A female friend of Rose's demanded an investigation which resulted in the imprisonment of the adult killers. The boy was given immunity for having been used as a pawn by everyone on both sides.

Gianni Versace

R23 Uh-oh. Well, I guess I'd better rethink my future plans!

R18, an ex-boyfriend isn't "trade"

r19 for the win!

Roseann Quinn

"She was strangled to death by her ex boyfriend. Trade doesn't get much rougher than that."

Uh, no. She was stabbed to death by a stranger she picked up at a bar, a psychotic bi-sexual hustler hopped up on drugs.

R23. Did his adopted 'son' have a big dick?

Sal Mineo?

Not Sal, R31. Robbery gone wrong.

[quote] After a lengthy investigation, Lionel Ray Williams, a pizza deliveryman, was arrested for the crime. In March 1979, he was convicted and sentenced to 57 years in prison for killing Mineo, and for committing 10 robberies in the same area.

Montgomery Clift's puss-he?

Pron actor Billy London. Interesting in that they found his head and feet in a dumpster. What a way to go!

Billy London

The head and feet of gay porn model Billy London (William Arnold Newton) were found in a dumpster in an alley behind Santa Monica Boulevard on October 28, 1990. The star of Bulge: Mass Appeal, Hard Choices, Head of the Class, Hot Wired, Imperfect Strangers, and Sex Drive 2020 had reportedly been kidnapped prior to his murder and dismemberment. The case was never solved, though the original lead detective, Wendi Brandt, announced in 2005 that she was reinvestigating the case after being made supervisor of the LAPD Homicide Unit, Hollywood Division.

Give me those shoes.

I wonder if Muslim terrorists killed Billy L?

R29: Uh, YES. Check Dominique Dunne's Wikipedia entry. She was strangled by her ex.

You're thinking of Theresa Dunn (Looking for Mr. Goodbar), who was stabbed by a one night stand.

Richard Simmons Morrissey's bank account

Hillary named her book after a porn movie?

r8 Vince Foster committed suicide at an apartment rented by TPTB for trysts, parties, etc.

He was dumped in the park, but he was a suicide.

Marc Blitzstein

Danny Lockin ( Barnaby) from film and Broadway Hello Dolly was killed by a psycho and stabbed over 100 times.

Check out this article about "notorious gay murders unsolved" (link below)

Danny Lockin's killer, who stabbed him 200 times, only got 4 years for killing the star and was released into the world.

Scary

I want to know what famous person wouldn't tell the police who the Doodler Killer was. That's some fucked up shit.

Damn no matter now many times I read these unfortunate stories I get chills down my spine. Being a slut can be deadly.

Kevin Spacey

You might enjoy reading all the unsolved LGBT crimes on the Unfinished Lives Blog, about gay lives snuffed out... interesting reading with new updates but after an hour or so it gets creepy. Like read in moderation as some of the shit that's going on can really make your blood boil.

I think all gay men should carry guns.

R47, guns aren't going to save you from a psycho

That George Weber story is horrifying. Creepy that he'd troll for teens on craigslist. Is the satanic slasher who did it still in prison?

The rough trade of our time!

Ambrose Bierce

London literary agent Rod Hall.

Elizabeth Short

English author James Pope-Hennessy.

Actor and art dealer Dick Kallman was murdered in his apartment.

Joey C.

dick kallman was murdered in his apartment in the middle of the night along with his associate who were both nude, but i don't think there is any evidence the murderer was rough trade. robbery was the official motive

Bobby Franks

....

R59, you're a bitch & you're wonderful.

Donald J Trump: I told you China was a currency manipulator!

At least half the posters on this thread don't seem to know the meaning of "rough trade."

Always liked a bit of rough.

Marcus Bachmann.

Accidentally strangled to death in a specifically requested "choking-during-cornholing" session.

Liebre & Stiller wrote Tango for Peggy Lee's bizarre and brilliant Mirrors album.

It's a song poem about Ramón Novarro's murder by two hustlers.

The lyrics and Lee's delivery are creepy as fuck, in a good way.

It's my favorite song about a faded and forgotten movie star murdered by rough trade!

Venus Xtravaganza

Don't look at me.

It almost happened to me, I was lucky to escape with my life.

What's the David Souter gossip? I don't get the reference.

Pikers

James Pope-Hennessy

The literary here will know him.

Vicki Morgan, Alfred Bloomingdale's mistress, murdered by a hustler friend from rehab. Used to make Alfred get on all fours and bark like a dog. Alfred promised he'd take care of her but then died and Betsy Bloomingdale, the widow, cut her off. She died as a prostitute.

I knew Jack, an older guy who had lived his life deep in the closet until the mid-90s. Killed by bad judgement, I think.

[quote]Jack Ronald Merker -- The Voice Stilled Merker enjoyed a long and distinguished career in San Diego, California, radio as an executive producer at KNSD/Channel 39, program director at both KOGO/AM 600 and KSDO/AM 1130, and as an on-air broadcast news personality. Colleagues credited him with making radio news in the area more lively and competitive as well as for launching the talk show career host of Michael Reagan, son of former President Ronald Reagan. In 1996, the openly gay Merker produced a radio show about AIDS that was honored with the New York International Radio Award. He served as the county's director of media and public relations until ill health in 1999 prompted him to retire to the desert community of Palm Springs, California. The 63-year-old former radio executive was staying at the home of a friend in Palm Springs when he was last seen leaving a local bar on November 28 or 29, 2001, with a man later identified as Erick Lavonne Wright (reported in the press as "Erik Levaughan Wright"), a 22-year-old resident of nearby Rancho Mirage. Days later on December 1, a real estate agent showing the home of Merker's friend to a prospective buyer discovered the radio man's body tossed into a laundry room. Merker, bound and gagged, had died of "compression of the neck." Prime suspect Erick Wright proved easy for Palm springs authorities to find. The day prior to the shocking discovery of Merker's body, Wright had been arrested by local police for the recent robbing and repeated stabbing of a motorist who had given him a ride. At trial, Wright admitted choking Merker, but only to disable him after the elderly man became violent during their sexual encounter. The prosecution maintained Wright deliberately killed Merker to get money for drugs. Found guilty of second-degree murder on January 6, 2004, he was subsequently sentenced to a prison term of 15 years to life. As of May 2014, Erick Lavonne Wright, Inmate #V26049, is incarcerated at the Chuckawalla Valley State Prison in Blythe, California.

Not killed by rough trade, but dabbled in it. Suicide. Dalida, the tragic diva.

Possibly David Carradine.

""Maybe someone would want to do that for money. David always carried a lot of cash and he always wore expensive watches -- you can attract unwanted elements," she suggests. "Given what David was into, Thailand, Bangkok is sex heaven, and I think he indulged and something went incredibly wrong."

He was assaulted late at night in a cruising park, R69.

David Messerschmitt

Wow

Ossie Clark. George Michael, possibly.

Ossie Clark was handsome. Killed by his ex, who got only six years.

Robert Wone.

The San Francisco headless-torso-in-the-fish-tank guy.