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There are times when life has seemed scary and too much to bear, but unto myself, I realized that my experience in the world was rarified. It was like some powerful magic that had to be handled with care and so it was only once I was ready to. I approached my budding sexuality with caution because there was something powerful and even divine about it. I never thought I was a danger to anything. I never felt the need to broadcast my sexual feelings, after all are my sexual encounters/fantasies anyone elses concern other then my own? I wasnt hiding, but I never heard ‘straight’ folk letting everyone know their sexual preferences or ever having the need to, but it seemed that being gay was something that others had to know about, was something period, like some kind of warning. I’ve always been somewhat of a private person by nature, blame it on my Cancerian roots.
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In fact it was more external pressure to address my orientation then an internal need or desire. I knew I was different then my peers though, different than other boys, mainly from what I was perceiving from the world, from others. It was intuitive and I didnt give it much thought. my feelings were my feelings and they hadnt been influenced by anything other then my innermost self and though I was perhaps too young to comprehend that, I did on some spiritual level, as I suspect all living things do. Naturally there was attraction, but it was not something I understood completely or tried to understand at an early age. For me, figuring out my place in the world, in the universe and existence as a whole took precedence over my attraction to another person. My sexuality was relatively meaningless in the larger picture. The elevator was found with silk inside, stuck between the 10th and 11th floors.Johnny, in his own words: “Looking back I find that I had more difficulty coming to terms with my humanity then my sexuality. The news report said the two men tried to rob a company on the fifth floor of expensive silks, but died in their attempt.
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A black-and-white, top-down image of two bodies in the elevator shaft is a representative example.Īlthough it did not carry a crime scene photo, the New York Tribune reported November 25, 1915, under the headline 'Finding of two bodies tells tale of theft,' that the bodies of a black elevator operator and a white engineer of a Manhattan building were found 'battered, as though from a long fall.' One popular cache includes photos shot mostly by NYPD detectives, nearly each one a crime mystery just begging to be solved. 'A lot of other photographers who worked for the city were pretty talented but did not produce such a large body of work or a distinct body of work,' said Michael Lorenzini, curator of photography at the Municipal Archives and author of 'New York Rises' that showcases Salignac images. A Salignac photograph, taken on October 7, 1914, and now online, shows more than a half-dozen painters lounging on wires on the Brooklyn Bridge. The view from New Jersey: A man peers across the Hudson River into Manhattan from his perch on the George Washington Bridge on December 22, 1936Īmong the known contributors to the collection was Eugene de Salignac, the official photographer for the Department of Bridges/Plant & Structures from 1906 to 1934.