His defence was led by former black California prosecutor Christopher Darden, who failed to convict O.J. It wasn’t until after the third overdose of a black gay man, who remains anonymous, were charges formally issued he narrowly escaped the drug den that Buck ran for years, with black gay men, many drug addicts or of the homeless population, in compromising positions in his West Hollywood enclave.įederal prosecutors produced video and images of a long litany of men passed out from meth or asleep being injected in “dangerously high doses.” Cruel ironies have often plagued this case from the beginning That it took only two weeks and four hours to find the liberal crusader of animal and LGBTQIA rights, after four arduous years of legal manoeuvring, is a victory-of sorts, certainly for black queer causes and the rights of those whose lives are often in the shadows of white gay men and their cis-het counterparts. It happened again, months later, after Timothy Dean, 55, once a fashion consultant, succumbed to the same fate as Moore.
“If the dead body of a blond-haired, blue-eyed white man was found in the room of an older black man,” lamented the attorney Hussain Clark of the Moore family, “he’d be lucky to ever make it to the police station.”
