Advocate Men (February 1989), Part Two

Born in Vienna on August 18, 1963, Garrisson von Habsburg was a descendant of the royal Habsburgs who ruled Austria for over six centuries. Moving to the United States in his twenties, Garrisson became a part of the San Francisco gay scene during the 1980s, performing in two films under the stage name of Garrisson Marcs and frequenting the clubs, where he met Larry O’Daniel in 1985. The two quickly moved in together; however, after five years, Garrisson, who was twenty years younger than Larry, ended the relationship because he wanted to try new things. Two years later, as his battle with AIDS grew worse, Garrisson returned to Larry and spent his final months with him, passing away on May 23, 1993, at the age of twenty-nine. The grieving Larry wrote Garrisson’s obituary for the gay paper Reporter, calling himself Garrisson’s “longtime friend,” and eventually moved to Flagstaff, Arizona. Contained in this February 1989 issue of Advocate Men (which has been broken into two parts) is a spread of Garrisson, where he talks about his lineage and how he possesses the family crest as a tattoo. Included in the second half (see the first half here) are the short stories “Blind Obsession” (where the narrator’s longing for an unobtainable man becomes a reality when he takes on the role of his masseur) and “Long Distance Operator” (about phone sex on a car phone), a showcase of Anos’ art, and photos of models Tom Ross, Ramino Souza, and Dean Tait.