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Contents:

• GAY TALE DEFENDS ‘THE VOYR’S MOTEL’ AFTER SOURCE IS UNRCUT
• GAY TALE'S LEGACY WILL SURVIVE THE VOYR'S MOTEL SNDAL
• GAY TALE
• GAY TALE STAYS TOO LONG AT 'THE VOYR'S MOTEL'
• LE MOTEL DU VOYR, GAY TALE: PROFSN REPORTER
• MAKG A CASE FOR ‘THE VOYR’S MOTEL’ BY GAY TALE
• GAY TALE’S BOOK ‘THE VOYR’S MOTEL’ GOT THE THOR HOT WATER. BUT IS ANY GOOD?
• AUTHOR GAY TALE DISAVOWS HIS LATT BOOK AMID CREDIBILY QUTNS

GAY TALE DEFENDS ‘THE VOYR’S MOTEL’ AFTER SOURCE IS UNRCUT

AdvertisementSKIP Marchant/Getty ImagJuly 1, 2016In Gay Tale’s forthg book, “The Voyr’s Motel, ” about a Colorado motel owner who spied on his guts for years whout their knowledge, Mr. “Gay is gog to do all his planned promotn and publicy, and we’ll make any necsary rrectns, as any publisher do, ” Mr.

“Gay is an impassned person and he tak what he do very serly, and he’s trated alg wh this guy who isn’t pletely reliable.

“The fact that he uld sometim prove an unreliable and accurate narrator is also somethg that Gay Tale mak clear to the rear, repeatedly, and is part of the way Foos is characterized throughout the article. But here’s what me first: Back April, when the New Yorker published “The Voyr’s Motel, ” Gay Tale’s article tailg how Gerald Foos had spied on guts havg sex his East Colfax Avenue motel for s through special ventilatn screens he’d...

GAY TALE'S LEGACY WILL SURVIVE THE VOYR'S MOTEL SNDAL

Back April, when the New Yorker published “The Voyr’s Motel, ” Gay Tale’s article tailg how Gerald Foos had spied on guts havg sex his East Colfax Avenue motel for s through special ventilatn screens he’d stalled the ceilgs of the now-funct Manor Hoe motel, I was as amed, horrified and fascated by the tale as were most people who read . [Below: a YouTube vio which Foos scrib his llectn, also featurg Gay Tale. Gay Tale had somethg to show me.

In full view of a New York magaze wrer who’d been sent to profile Tale, a massse “took hold of Gay’s penis as lmly as if had been a pool cue” and playfully threatened to pate .

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“You n’t make this stuff up, ” Gay Tale says the begng of Voyr, the new documentary chroniclg the velopment of his book The Voyr’s Motel, which was excerpted as a ntroversial New Yorker article, and, as of Friday, is available on Netflix. In hdsight, some errors are glargly obv: There are some obv and damng genr dynamics at work here, between Gay and Nan and between Foos and his wife, Ana, but Kane and Koury do ltle to lve to the sexual polics that make Foos’s motel an enavor of masculy, and an credibly vlatg and disturbg one at that.

The level of meta-storytellg they attempt to tell lv to all the most superficial rners, like watchg Tale’s dghter, an artist, pat Foos’s motel for her father’s book; Tale and Foos, when they first meet 2013, stay at a motel, se you didn’t know what they’re gettg at faiar wh Gay Tale’s brand of lerary journalism, which has bee a fg style, is likely faiar wh another pneer, Ja Mallm, who said this of her chosen genre, bgraphy: “The voyrism and bybodyism that impel wrers and rears of bgraphy alike are obscured by an apparat of scholarship signed to give the enterprise an appearance of bank-like blandns and solidy. Author and journalist Gay Tale (right) and Gerald Foos, the Colorado motel owner who for years spied on his guts, are the foc of the Netflix documentary Voyr. There's a fascatg moment the new Netflix documentary Voyr when the filmmakers ask the protagonist, Gerald Foos — who allegedly spied on guts om the attic of the now-funct Manor Hoe Motel Aurora that he owned — whether he regretted tellg his story to renowned journalist Gay Tale, who published a New Yorker article, then book, about Foos 2016.

That’s why I didn’t tell Gay [Tale] about , " Foos said. Gay Tale se laissa le temps d'approcher s sujets, gagner lr nfiance.

GAY TALE STAYS TOO LONG AT 'THE VOYR'S MOTEL'

C't le disurs qu'il tiendra à Gay Tale pour le nvacre d'écrire son histoire. Buford’s article was “Thy Neighbor’s Life, ” a nod toward Gay Tale’s classic of participatory soc-sexual journalism, “Thy Neighbor’s Wife” (1981).

By Gay Tale. That’s one of the dilemmas around Gay Tale’s “The Voyr’s Motel, ” which the thor briefly disavowed recently after the Washgton Post unvered discrepanci s chronology.

LE MOTEL DU VOYR, GAY TALE: PROFSN REPORTER

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If you're lookg for a night out, head to one of the many gay bars or clubs that the area is known for. In his forthg book, "The Voyr's Motel, " acclaimed journalist and nonfictn thor Gay Tale chronicl the bizarre story of Gerald Foos, who allegedly spied on guts at his Colorado motel om the late 1960s to the Tale overlooked a key fact his book: Foos sold the motel, loted Aurora, Colo., 1980 and didn’t reacquire until eight years later, acrdg to lol property rerds. Journalist and nonfictn thor Gay Tale discsed his passn for tellg the stori of real people durg a 2006 appearance.

In the April 11, 2016, issue of The New Yorker, the fabled journalist Gay Tale, at the sprightly age of 84, published a luridly provotive article entled “The Voyr’s Motel. The filmmakers, Myl Kane and Josh Koury, are too enthralled wh the pun of their tle: The film is about a pulsive voyr — but Gay Tale, the man reportg on the voyr, is a voyr too!

MAKG A CASE FOR ‘THE VOYR’S MOTEL’ BY GAY TALE

There are only a few journalists Ameri who are so teemed — and well-drsed — that they atta the stat of aristocrats, and Gay Tale is one of them.

GAY TALE’S BOOK ‘THE VOYR’S MOTEL’ GOT THE THOR HOT WATER. BUT IS ANY GOOD?

AUTHOR GAY TALE DISAVOWS HIS LATT BOOK AMID CREDIBILY QUTNS