Lou Maletta
Lou Maletta | |
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 Maletta in 1998 | |
| Born | December 14, 1936 |
| Died | November 2, 2011 (aged 74) |
Louis Phillip "Lou" Maletta Jr. (December 14, 1936 – November 2, 2011) was an American
Life and career
Maletta was born in
Maletta's start in media came with the show
Andy Humm, then a GCN correspondent, recounted years afterward that Maletta's wearing of a "spandex, black leather jacket, the Gay Network T-shirt and a cowboy hat" at a backwoods Mississippi Hardee's while en route to the Republican National Convention caught the attention of other patrons, so much so that the place went "deadly silent. I didn’t think we’d get out alive, but perhaps the locals were just too shocked to react.[2]"
Gay Cable Network closed in 2001 upon Maletta's retirement. All 6,100 video tapes of GCN's archive were sold to the New York University's Fales Library for preservation in 2009.
Maletta was also the off-camera voice in a Calvin Klein campaign pulled in 1995 for racy content which some suggested had overtones of underage pornography.[3] Maletta died of liver cancer in Kingston, New York.[4]
References
- New York Times
- ^ Andy Humm (November 9, 2011). "Lou Maletta, TV Pioneer, Dead at 74". Gay City News.
- Village Voice
- ^ Kohler, Will (November 4, 2011). Lou Maletta, Founder Of The Gay Cable Network In 1982 Dies at 74. Archived April 30, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Back2Stonewall.com
