Eddie Garzón Way
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Andrés Duque on Eddie Garzón
[00:00:00] So, my name is Andres Duque and I used to know Eddie Garzon back in the 1990s and 2000s.
[00:00:14] He was a friend of mine and he participated in a lot of activities that we did with COLEGA, the Colombian Gay and Lesbian Organization.
[00:00:24] He was just a stunningly beautiful man and he had like a circle of boys around him.
[00:00:33] I think he just had this aura. He had like all these people surrounding him, friends, you know. And that’s how he met it. When he came in the room just lit up.
[00:00:49] There was a Gay Pride Parade in Queens that we participated in. And you could see each group try to outdo each other in terms of what they would do with their floats, you know.
[00:01:00] We came to Eddie because he had certain skills. Um, And we were trying to prepare something, uh, that would surprise people.
[00:01:10] Ao he came up with this idea of, like, dressing up a jeep in the form of a horse. And Colombia is well known for coffee so we spent like, I think it was three nights just trying to cut clothes, sew different things.
[00:01:26] I think part of the fact that he was a dancer also gave him the discipline and the drive to complete something. We actually won the prize!
[00:03:26] So he was like the sun at the center of a social scene, you know. And there were those planets around him. And he was truly that center, you know. So he was taken away from that center, and I think it left like those rings.