Thinking of Larry Storch, who died yesterday at age 99
Actor Larry Storch (above, on the right, in the gray hat), probably most well known for his role in the 60’s comedy F Troop, died yesterday. He was 99 years old
I had the pleasure of meeting him many years ago and he was a lovely man . . . back in the early 80’s, I worked for a hott minute as a model — it was during this time (shocking that male models in the 1980’s were often gay) that I came across a life style I knew nothing about before
and during this time I started going to gay bars and had gay roommates and their friends were all creative dudes who did creative things and . . . long story only sort of long
I ended up as the trophy wife date to several gay men who took me places, especially plays and the opera, etc and it was on one of my “dates”, that I went to see a play starring Larry Storch
my date was the costume designer for several local theatre companies, as well as Ballet Met and Opera Columbus (who tried, unsuccessfully, for about a year to recruit me for his Chippendale knockoff dance troupe)
as an aside, I was a VERY prudish gay man, as I never did anything, at all . . . but evidently I was pretty enough (at least 40 years ago) to be worth the effort to chauffeur me around knowing I definitely wasn’t gay