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Gemmel Moore. Timothy Dean. These are the names of two Black,
queer men found dead in a white, gay man’s apartment.
I’m an advocate and a white, queer person, and I’ve seen this
story get some traction in some places on my social media feeds.
But it hasn’t been enough, mainstream media has covered it only
minimally, and not enough of us in the movements to end violence
are naming sexual violence as a central issue to what is
happening here. We need to actively name the sexual violence,
racism, classism, and homophobia that have conspired here to
harm and kill Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean, and that have so
far prevented any accountability through the criminal justice
system.
Here are some key articles to make sure you’re caught up. (The
stories that the articles cover can be triggering, especially
for those who have experienced trauma related to racism,
homophobia, and sexual violence.)
On August 7, 2017, WeHo Times published a breaking report about
Gemmel Moore’s death and the LA County Coroner’s report that it
was an accidental overdose: Sex, Politics, Meth and Death in
West Hollywood.
LaTisha Nixon says she learned that her son, who was unemployed,
had recently been doing sex work. She told the WeHo Times that
her son’s friend was also engaged in similar activity—and that
they had a client in common.
“When he calmed down, he told me that Ed Buck was one of my
son’s clients and that Ed Buck was one of his clients as well,”
Nixon said. “[Buck] would have my son to go out to… Santa Monica
Boulevard looking for young gay Black guys so he could inject
them with drugs, see their reaction and how [they] would react
and take pictures of them.”
On August 25, 2017, the LA Times published an article
highlighting the ways race and class impacted the investigation:
In West Hollywood, gulf between young Black man and wealthy
white political donor fuels concern about death investigation
Moore was 26, Black and poor. He had been homeless and had
worked as an escort. Buck was 62, white and wealthy, a well-
known figure in LGBTQ political circles.
Now, Moore's family and friends — who have questioned whether
the drugs that killed him were self-administered — are wondering
whether those differences in race, class and connections factor
into how the investigation into his death is being handled.
On January 7, 2019, the Advocate posted the developing story
that another Black man (later identified as 55-year old Timothy
Dean) was found dead in Ed Buck’s apartment: Another Black Man
Has Died in the Home of Democratic Donor Ed Buck
Since Moore's death was classified as an accidental overdose,
numerous young Black gay men have alleged that Buck has a fetish
for shooting drugs into Black men he picks up off the street or
on hookup sites. Moore had written about Buck injecting him with
dangerous drugs before his death.
On January 11, 2019, NBC News published an interview with
Jasmyne Cannick, who has consistently covered the story since
Gemmel Moore was found dead in Ed Buck’s apartment (transgender
activist Ashlee Marie Preston also contributed insight): 'Serial
predator': L.A. writer has been sounding alarm on Ed Buck for
over a year
“Our stories aren’t told and our lives are seen as expendable.
It’s very easy to write off someone who dies of a drug overdose
who was working as a sex worker, but Gemmel was as much a part
of our community as the many other young men like him,” said
Cannick, who like both Moore and Dean is Black and gay. “It may
not be pretty, but white gay men taking advantage of young Black
men in our community is not unusual—it’s just not talked about
in mainstream America.”
“There's a larger story there that people aren't looking at,
Preston said. “It’s really about money, power, chemsex culture,
and raceplay, and it’s this underground thing that many people
aren’t talking about, and essentially it’s murder rebranded.”
As people working to prevent and respond to sexual violence, we
need to see what’s happening here as our issue also. There are a
lot of sexual violence topics at play in Moore’s and Dean’s
stories: racism and sexual violence, classism and sexual
violence, abuse and hookup apps, the vulnerability of sex
workers, issues of housing and sexual violence, addiction and
sexual violence, and more.
Queer fam, it can be uncomfortable to take a look into our own
communities and acknowledge where sexual violence is going
unchecked. How can it be that we’ve found safety and liberation
where some of us find abuse and exploitation? Part of the
discomfort in addressing violence in our communities comes from
the harm we’ve endured from the big lie that our queerness is
sexual deviance. It isn’t, but sexual violence is part of every
community, including ours. Young, poor, Black, gay men are
dying, and so are others on the margins of LGBTQ communities.
The queer ancestors would want us to remember that we can’t be
silent about it.
My colleagues in the anti-sexual violence movement, we need to
know and remember the names Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean. We
also need to know that their stories are not isolated incidents.
Advocates need to look in their local communities to see what
young, Black, queer men are experiencing in terms of housing and
homelessness, poverty, drugs and addiction, chemsex, and more.
What other kinds of harm are people in your local community
experiencing? Who do you need to partner with to advocate for
victims and survivors of sexual violence on the margins? How can
you ensure that the traumas faced by people on the margins are
among the issues that your center prioritizes?
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