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   Many people have seen the name Ed Buck gracing the pages of the   
   news lately. The millionaire, high-profile political donor spent   
   large chunks of money over the past decade on popular Democratic   
   candidates, gaining a seat at the political white, politically   
   elite table. Along with Buck’s history of sizable contributions   
   to the candidacy of politicians like Kirsten Synema and Hillary   
   Clinton, Buck has a record of something far more sinister:   
   preying on young, black queer men.   
      
   Predation works in patterns. Once one victim is discovered,   
   others appear soon after. In the case of Ed Buck, his preferred   
   victim was and still is gay, black men who are in vulnerable   
   positions.   
      
   The case of 26 year old Gemmel Moore provides an example of Ed   
   Buck relying on his money and power to lure in potential targets.   
      
   According to Gemmel Moore’s own diary, Ed Buck provided him his   
   first injection of crystal meth and continued to inject it into   
   him, eventually getting Gemmel hooked on the drug. His diary   
   entries from that year went so far as to say, “I ended up back   
   at Buck [sic] house again and got manipulated [sic] into   
   slamming again…If it didn’t hurt so bad, I’d kill myself, but   
   I’ll let Ed Buck do it for now.”   
      
   Gemmel was found dead in Buck’s apartment, naked on a mattress   
   with a pornography film playing in the background. A large   
   number of syringes containing drug residue were found near his   
   body along with a significant amount of other drug paraphernalia.   
      
   A lesson in the vicious nature of white privilege followed   
   Gemmel’s death.   
      
   Buck, still revered by some in the white political   
   establishment, was not arrested, was not charged with any   
   crimes, and was allowed to continue his life unimpeded. The   
   baffling nature of those events boggles even the dullest   
   political minds. After all, how many people can really get away   
   with having a drugged, dead body in their home next to a   
   stockpile of needles and pipes in the same apartment?   
      
   The answer was the one-hundred and eighty degree opposite of   
   what we all expected.   
      
   And what could be more traumatizing than one dead body in a drug-   
   riddled apartment, but a second black, gay man found dead in the   
   exact same circumstances.   
      
   In January of 2019, the body of Timothy Dean, a 55 year old man   
   from Hollywood, was found in Buck’s apartment.   
      
   What is the public supposed to make of a second death of a   
   black, queer man in less than two years, with zero prosecution,   
   no charges, and no arrest of the man in whose home the deaths   
   occurred?   
      
   What is the Black queer community supposed to make of West   
   Hollywood’s seeming lack of urgency about the lives of these   
   men? Are we even safe here? Do black lives matter in West   
   Hollywood?   
      
   The ridiculous spectacle that has ensued since Timothy’s death   
   has shown the insidious nature of whiteness and political power.   
      
   Not one single punishment has been levied against Buck; he   
   continues to roam the streets of Los Angeles. He spends time   
   with other young, Black men in public.   
      
   After the bodies of two Black men were found in his living   
   quarters, the fact that he feels free to walk the streets of   
   this city is a travesty.   
      
   Buck and the system, politicians and his supporters reek of   
   white privilege because a man who has wielded so much political   
   clout through the years is not alone in his actions.   
      
   It takes a village to cover up a murder, let alone two.   
      
   West Hollywood has endured a whirlwind of trauma related to   
   sexual violence in the past two years. From the loss of two   
   Black lives, to the allegations of sexual harassment at the   
   hands of Mayor John Duran, the city has shouldered a big burden.   
      
   The misconduct allegations against John Duran represent another   
   disturbing pattern of powerful white men abusing their positions   
   for their own benefit.   
      
   John Duran’s practice of slippery denials have been a prolonged   
   and damaging embarrassment for the wider LGBTQ community. Duran,   
   a proud champion of queer rights since the beginning of his   
   career, leverages his power to hide and his gay identity to   
   justify predatory behavior; it’s a crushing realization for   
   members of the queer community that the politician they elected   
   to be their hero has shown that he cares more about his   
   political legacy than the lives of the WeHo residents he was   
   charged with protecting.   
      
      
      
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