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   The thirst for gratification, validation, and power often leads   
   many men, prominent and not, to destroy their own lives as well   
   as the lives of others. The story of Ed Buck and his victims is   
   one that involves wealth, deadly fetishes, meth, and racism.   
   Here’s what you need to know.   
      
   Fetish: a form of sexual desire in which gratification is linked   
   to an abnormal degree to a particular object, item of clothing,   
   part of the body, etc.   
      
   A fetish by definition isn’t by definition a bad thing, abnormal   
   perhaps, but not necessarily wrong or harmful. However, what   
   makes a fetish harmful and, in the case of Ed Buck’s victims,   
   deadly, is the coupling of a fetish with dehumanization.   
      
   Edward Bernard Peter Buckmelter (Ed Buck) is a wealthy American   
   entrepreneur who began his career as a fashion model and actor   
   in Europe, and earned the lion’s share of his early wealth   
   through a courier company he acquired in the early 1980s.   
      
   Buck, who has resided in Los Angeles for nearly three decades,   
   has reportedly donated over $120,000 to democratic organizations   
   and politicians over the last 27 years (according to   
   opensecrets.org). Today, however, he is most known for his   
   misuse of meth, money and the bestialization of black gay men.   
      
   In 2017 Gemmel Moore (26) would become Ed Buck’s first publicly   
   known victim. Originally from Texas, Gemmel moved to West   
   Hollywood (WeHo), California, and quickly found himself   
   struggling to survive. Gemmel and Buck would meet via a popular   
   dating app. Buck had money, and Gemmel unfortunately, fit his   
   ideal profile – black, queer and poor. For Ed Buck, the   
   gratification wasn’t strictly “sexual,” he also enjoyed   
   injecting black men with methamphetamine, getting them addicted   
   and watching them overdose.   
      
   LaTisha Nixon, Gemmel’s mother, details her last in-person   
   conversation with her son in an interview in PartyBoi, a   
   chilling documentary showcasing the meth issue in the Black and   
   Latinx queer community by Michael Rice.   
      
   “I couldn’t believe how he looked. Gemmel tells me this man   
   likes to take pictures of him in white long johns. He said,   
   ‘Mom, he likes to shoot me up with meth and watch me. He likes   
   to do this to black men. Mom, I don’t like it.’ I begged Gemmel   
   to stay with me, but I couldn’t convince him.”   
      
   Excerpts from Gemmel’s diary show a young man struggling   
   mentally and physically, as his connection with Buck grew more   
   dependent and dangerous.   
      
   I honestly don’t know what to do. I’ve become addicted to drugs   
   and the worst one at that.  Ed Buck is the one to thank, he gave   
   me my first injection of crystal meth. –  Gemmel Moore.   
      
   Despite his attempts to alert authorities, Gemmel’s reports went   
   uninvestigated. On July 27, 2017, Gemmel’s body was found   
   lifeless in Ed Buck’s West Hollywood apartment – pornography   
   playing in the background, syringes and sex toys littering the   
   space. His death was ruled accidental by the coroner, and   
   prosecutors declined to file charges (insufficient evidence).   
      
   On January 7, 2019, Timothy Dean (African American), a fashion   
   consultant and athlete was found dead in Ed Buck’s West   
   Hollywood apartment. As in the case of Gemmel Moore, Ed Buck was   
   present during the death. Coroners determined that the cause of   
   Timothy’s death was of meth toxicity, but also accidental.   
      
   On September 11, 2019, an unnamed African American man had been   
   administered (by Ed Buck) deadly doses of methamphetamine in Ed   
   Buck’s apartment. The unnamed man reportedly fought Buck to flee   
   the apartment, believing he was overdosing. The man called 911   
   from a nearby location and received medical treatment for a meth   
   overdose. The unnamed man is Buck’s first publicly known   
   survivor.   
      
   On September 17, 2019, after two publicly known deaths at Ed   
   Buck’s apartment and three known meth overdose incidents, Ed   
   Buck was arrested. Buck has been charged by the state of   
   California and the federal government for his involvement in the   
   overdose of the unnamed survivor and the death of Gemmel Moore.   
      
   Now, let’s talk about how this happens. Ed Buck acted with   
   maliciousness and impunity, he is a current-day Jeffrey Dahmer,   
   true. While it’s easy to leave our conclusions and sympathies   
      
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