Joe Campbell (November 4, 1936 – October 2, 2005) was an American actor who appeared in the 1965 film '' My Hustler''. In the film Campbell's role was called "Sugar Plum Fairy". Campbell was mentioned as "the Sugar Plum Fairy" in the 1972 Lou Reed song " Walk on the Wild Side". Campbell was given that nickname by

Dorothy Dean Dorothy Dean (December 22, 1932 – February 13, 1987) was an African American socialite, connected to Andy Warhol's The Factory—for which she appeared in the films '' Batman Dracula'' (1964), ''Space'' (1965), ''My Hustler'' (1965), ''Aftern ...

. Campbell was in a relationship with

Harvey Milk Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Milk was born and raised in ...

from 1955 to 1962. He died on October 2, 2005. He was 68 years old.

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