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Robert La Tourneaux (November 22, 1941 - June 3, 1986) was an actor born in St Louis, Missouri as Robert Earl LaTurno. He was best known for his role of Cowboy, in the Off Broadway production and film version of The Boys in the Band.
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In the early 1980s, La Tourneaux contracted HIV.
He received news coverage when he sought legal assistance to prevent being evicted from his apartment. His landlord objected to the presence of a live-in caregiver. La Tourneaux won the court case, but later died of AIDS in Metropolitan Hospital aged 44.
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After the film version of The Boys in the Band (1970) was released, La Tourneaux’s career declined. He claimed that all doors in Hollywood had remained closed to him.
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"I was too closely identified with homosexuality, with Boys in the Band. I was typecast as a gay hustler, and it was an image I couldn't shake."
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La Tourneaux landed bit parts in low-budget films made in Europe. He began nude modeling in gay men's magazines. He became a sex worker and worked in a male porno theater in Manhattan, doing a one-man cabaret act between showings of X-rated films. In 1983, La Tourneaux was arrested for assault after trying to extract money from a client and was confined to Rikers Island prison where he survived a suicide attempt.
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In the early 1980s, Murray Gitlin, a former dancer and stage manager, who in 1994 also died of AIDS, went to visit La Tourneaux who was seriously ill, recalled:
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"He was in a private room with leg shackles. And the guard guarding twenty-four hours a day, wearing a gown and mask. It was just awful. And Bob just kept getting sicker and sicker. It was just such a waste: he was so sweet and so beautiful and had so much going for him. I saw him a couple of weeks before he died. He was in Metropolitan Hospital, he was out of prison. And the nurse who was assigned to him had seen The Boys in the Band on television the night before. And he died in her arms. And to her, he was a star."
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⏺ The 50th anniversary production of @boysbandbway returned to the New York stage on May 31 until August 11, 2018. @チャーリー・カーバー stars as Cowboy.

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