Randy Wicker

So this is the person who actively just claims a leading role.

But Carter said that multiple people were close to the events, including Bob Croler and Randy Wicker, found no credible evidence that she was there on the first night at all.

Johnston reportedly corrected her on this point.

Rivera's presence appears to have been a fabrication completely.

Yeah.

I mean, it made it there, you know, there was so much writing about this and so many different, you know, uh, contemporary voices talking about this it did make that that easier but yeah it was a very peculiar experience in writing about somebody who you just have to assume is always lying but you know in that you can kind of you know you can sort of dig down and actually get to because you know if you can figure out what he's lying about you can kind of figure out like what he's actually trying to get to and what he's actually talking about and you know if you really learned to recognize the points when he's not telling the truth yeah you can figure out when he is telling the truth too and that's you know what do you when he says something that that's legit that's kind of like a big moment too so it's um you know it's it's it was a tricky process but i did i did have the good fortune of a number of writers uh Randy Wicker, Clifford Jarre.

It's the third one whose name I can't remember right offhand.

But a lot of journalists in the gay press at the time who wrote about this.