The Rise and Fall of Jobriath, Pop's First Openly Gay Star

When glam-rock star-in-the-making Jobriath, aka Bruce Wayne Campbell — army brat, one-time hustler and former Hair cast member — declared himself the “true fairy” of rock‘n’roll to journalists in 1973, he unwittingly derailed his career before it could properly launch. In a TV interview from 1974, fully made-up, and flanked by an unctuous producer-Svengali named Jerry Brandt, the openly gay musician implicitly took glam rock to task for its gender-bending…