Jimmy and I didn’t care either way and listened to Jobriath’s excellent sophomore album, “Creatures of the Street,” over and over. The straight music world wanted to have nothing to do with Jobriath and gay-rights activists rejected his effeminate image as a quasi-drag stereotype. His rather shameless manager, Jerry Brandt, dubbed him: 'The true fairy of rock.'
He was a flamboyant figure who wore androgynous body suits and appeared to have pointed ears like an elf. Rex toyed with the image of being gay, Jobriath was the rock world’s first openly and unapologetically gay singer. A former classical pianist and AWOL solider, Jobriath was basically Hedwig from “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” more than 20 years before the transgressive and transgendered musical ever hit the stage.
All of those acts were trumped when Jobriath landed on the scene with a huge media splash and a debut album 1973.
