Gene Gregorits

Justin Gene Gregorits (born 5 November 1976) is an American writer, editor, publisher and convicted sex offender. He founded and published Sex & Guts Magazine, an independent arts and culture journal, that ran from 1997 to 2004. Subsequent works include Johnny Behind The Deuce, Sex & Guts Anthology, Sex & Guts 4, Midnight Mavericks, Dog Days: Volume One, Dog Days: Volume Two, Hatchet Job: The Gene Gregorits Reader, and Fishhook. Gregorits' most recent works have been described as having running themes of poverty, sexual deviance, trauma, mental illness, violence, multi-substance abuse and death.^[1] He has said that early influences on his writing included Charles Bukowski and Louis-Ferdinand Céline ^[2] In 2012 he served as the jury head for the 13th Melbourne Underground Film Festival ^[3] and was intrumental for Donkey Love, a film about bestiality, being awarded Best Documentary.^[4]

Bibliography

Sex and Guts 4(2002)
Midnight Mavericks: Reports From The Underground (2007)
HATCHET JOB: The Gene Gregorits Reader (2012)
Dog Days: Volume One (2012)
Dog Days: Volume Two (2013)
Johnny Behind The Deuce (2013)
Sex and Guts Anthology (2013)
Dog Days Omnibus (2013)
Fishook Volume One (2013)
The Portland Eight Mile (2014)
Do You Love Me: The Gene Gregorits File (2014)
The Portable Gene Gregorits (2014)
Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: The Untold Story (2014)
Intra-Coastal: One Year On St Pete Beach (Volume One) (2014)
Stretch Marks: My Pennsylvania Hell 1976-1996 (2015)
Intra-Coastal: One Year On St. Pete Beach (Volume Two) (2015)
Fishhook Volume Two (2015)
Dog Days Volume Three (2015)

As a contributing writer

Chelsea Hotel Manhattan: A Raw Eulogy To A New York Icon (2008) ^[5]
Antique Children: A Mischievous Literary Arts Journal (2010)
Analysing David Peace (Katy Shaw, editor. Cambridge Scholars Publishing) (2011) ^[6]

Film work

Born To Lose: The Last Rock'n'Roll Movie (Lech Kowalski, 1999) (graphic designer, promotion)
Ronni Lee (Ron Athey, 2000) (lead actor)
Blank Generation (Celine Dahnier, 2006) (actor)
The Sand Trap (Casey Fischer, 2012) (subject)
The Second Coming (post-production, 2014) (lead actor)

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In popular culture

Mr. Gregorits has had some widespread notoriety after he cut part of his own ear off with a razor blade and ate the severed lobe, while filming the event.^[9] On 3 August 2014 Justin Gene Gregorits was arrested for sexual battery^[10] and on 12 February 2016 convicted of Unlawful Sexual Activity with Certain Minors 16/17 yr old; F.S. 794.05(1).^[11]

References

↑ "Melbourne Underground Film Festival – MUFF 13". Muff.com.au. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
↑ Carver, Lisa (January 27, 2013). "He's Not Dead Yet? Life with Gene Gregorits | VICE Canada". Vice.com. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
↑ "Melbourne Underground Film Festival - MUFF 13". www.muff.com.au. Retrieved 2016-08-27.
↑ Taylor, Andrew. "Donkey sex gets thumbs-up from censors". Retrieved 2016-08-27.
↑ Alyse (August 20, 2008). "Book Review: Chelsea Hotel Manhattan by Joe Ambrose". Blogcritics. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
↑ http://www.c-s-p.org/flyers/978-1-4438-2990-8-sample.pdf
↑ "Ms.P Chats It Up With Author Gene Gregorits 12/19 by The NTuned Show | Books Podcasts". Blogtalkradio.com. December 20, 2012. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2678700/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
↑ "NSFW: Mentally ill Florida man cuts off his own earlobe and eats it to promote his books from monastrell_publishing". Funnyordie.com. September 5, 2013. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
↑ "Madeira Beach man charged with sexual battery". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 2016-08-26.
↑ "JUSTIN GREGORITS - Florida Sexual Offender". offender.fdle.state.fl.us. Retrieved 2016-08-26. horizontal tab character in |title= at position 29 (help)

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