Rhodes quickly realized that he was not feeling well and cut the evening short. Rhodes was hired along with another escort to perform for a wealthy client (according to text messages later read by his brother), the two men continued the evening on their own, having sex and doing drugs. The most surprising may be the story by Jacob Bernstein published in the New York Times of all places that revealed: As Daniel Villareal has collected and attempted to parse over at Gay.net, you can read the responses via Twitter and other quotables from quasi-celebrities and friends, as well as a news stories published in various outlets. When news of Erik Rhodes untimely death hit, it caused shockwaves that reverberated in the social media universe.
