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Jam Bidgood, the filmmaker behd the unrground gay classic Pk Narciss, died January at age 88. It picted the fantasi of a young gay sex worker, played by Bobby Kendall, Bidgood’s roommate. In 1980, Maison was the top legal fenr of gay men arrted for "public lewdns" a police stg the prev year at Village Statn.

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