As the melodies drifted up from the piano, surrounding the patrons who stood in a crush, they talked and talked, about Boston and New York, the Red Sox and the Yankees. Then, in deference to Gibson’s affection for men precisely like Tom, the friend excused himself. Tom and Gibson were introduced that night by a mutual friend, around 10:30. In practice, however, the staunch liberal Democrat was attracted to a lot of Republicans he “absolutely despised.” Best-case scenario, that meant Johnny Carson. He liked them over sixty, generic-looking, Midwestern, and white-haired. Oh, and the Townhouse fed his lifelong affection for older men. Not because he liked it all that much-it was snooty, he thought, with its dress code and plush couches and oil paintings-but because he owned an apartment on the same block. He’d been a Townhouse regular since the night it opened in 1989. A blond-haired, blue-eyed twentysomething adorned in Brooks Brothers, Gibson made commercials for Pennzoil. Nevertheless, detectives found Douglas Gibson. “The homosexual community wasn’t very open about what they were doing in their private lives,” said Kuehn. When they visited the bar to conduct interviews, regulars were guarded, reluctant to talk. The Townhouse was already on the radar of detectives, thanks to the investigation into Peter Anderson’s murder.
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