It still blows my mind those few notables, claiming to be experts on Valentino, still mewl the tired old studio generated/Alberto Valentino version of the story. The following people have steadfastly ignored all the new documentation we uncovered, continue to shun all our books, ban the mention of our work and names on their forums and I have made my opinions about that fairly widely known.
Tracy Terhune, Donna Hill, Cindy Martin (Cousin Cindy), Simon Constable, Eleanor Gribbin and Edel Man David Bret (in the background because they won't allow him to post on their forums under his own name)... in my expert opinion these people hold the false narrative party line for the Alberto Valentino family. In exchange for what? Rudy shirts and relics?
Why do they forbid, banish and lie about our books? Because doing anything else would mean they incorporated the new documentation into a revised narrative. It would mean embracing/respecting us and our work. This would mean they would be openly accepting Valentino was not gay, that George Ullman was an honest man, that I am not homophobic and that Valentino came to America with some serious jingle in his pockets which were far from threadbare. And more.
I will continue to call these people out for their behavior. And as quiet as Tracy Terhune feigns being at the moment... that heinous bully blog he runs under the title of Affairs Valentino is still online. He has used that blog to harass and bully us for eight years, diverting my web traffic into finding that crap while joking about our deaths with his “tick-tocking” and telling people all of my work will end up in the “trash bin of Valentino history”. It speaks volumes about him and his jealousy of our work because why else would he do that? Every day that hate blog is online, his jealously gets louder and more obvious.
By the way (see below)... this is currently posted on Terhune and Hill's forum, “We Never Forget”... Is this a change in policy? Are they now allowing Affairs Valentino to be cited and discussed? A very rare and wonderful citation to Affairs Valentino indeed! Thank you to the person who posted this and also to readers of this blog... thank you for all your great comments!
