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>Jobriath was a glam-rock singer, songwriter, and entertainer who recorded only two unsuccessful albums.
>Historians consider him the first openly gay rock musician.
>He was signed to Elektra Records through controversial hustler and Jewish conman Jerry Brandt.
>A huge marketing campaign followed, with Jobriath's naked torso on buses, in music magazines, and on a billboard in Times Square.
Jobriath's self-titled debut LP received good reviews, but was a commercial disappointment.
>Straight people throw bottles and hurl slurs at him during live shows.
>Gay people ignore him outright and think his androgynous appeareance makes them look weak.
>Homeless, addicted to drugs, selling his body after being dropped by his management.
>He retreats to the glass pyramid he had erected on the roof of the Chelsea Hotel in New York, where he would live out the remainder of his life.
Basically what Stardust should've been. Paul Heyman could've been the Jerry Brandt in the equation, something for him to do outside the box.
