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Contents:
- 'Q-FORCE': SEAN HAY ON BRGG 'GAY JAM BOND' TO NETFLIX WH ANIMATED SPY EDY
- WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
- AIMG FOR “PRI WHOUT PREJUDICE”: A GAY HOLLYWOOD AGENT’S PERSONAL STORY (GUT COLUMN)
- EX-FBI AGENT, FIRED FOR BEG GAY, FIGHTS TO GET BACK JOB
'Q-FORCE': SEAN HAY ON BRGG 'GAY JAM BOND' TO NETFLIX WH ANIMATED SPY EDY
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WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
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As a premier talent agent who happened to be gay, Henry Willson unrstood that better than most. Stty Bowers, who once ran a prostutn rg for gay men the film dtry, explaed was no piic to live as a gay man wh the town’s spotlight on your back. “He would fd the young boys who almost all me om horrible home suatns, ” said Hollywood show-nner Ryan Murphy, “…and take them on as clients…He was a tormented gay man who preyed on tormented gay men.
AIMG FOR “PRI WHOUT PREJUDICE”: A GAY HOLLYWOOD AGENT’S PERSONAL STORY (GUT COLUMN)
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EX-FBI AGENT, FIRED FOR BEG GAY, FIGHTS TO GET BACK JOB
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