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• ‘VOYR’ REVIEW: NETFLIX’S DEVIANT GAY TALE DOC CAN’T DECI WHAT WANTS TO LOOK AT
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• VOYR REVIEW: A FASCATG, COMPLITED FILM ABOUT SEX AND SECRETSTHE HUBBUB SURROUNDG GAY TALE’S BOOK ABOUT A NOTOR MOTEL VOYR GETS THE FULL-LENGTH DOCUMENTARY TREATMENT.BY JORDAN HOFFMANOCTOBER 5, 2017COURTY OF NETFLIX.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEVOYR, A MARVELO DOCUMENTARY BUTG AT THE NEW YORK FILM FTIVAL BEFORE HEADG TO NETFLIX DECEMBER 1, IS PACKED BEYOND VANCY WH DISCSNS OF WEIGHTY TOPICS LIKE THORIAL TENT, TTH JOURNALISM, AND MEDIA MANIPULATN. BUT BEFORE ANY OF THAT, THERE’S THE PREMISE, WHICH MAY PEL YOU TO JUMP TO A HOT SHOWER. (ONE YOU’RE SURE HAS NO PEEPHOLE.)FOR S, A MOTEL OWNER OUTSI OF DENVER, GERALD FOOS, ED HIS BS AS HIS OWN PRIVATE SOCLOGY LABORATORY. HE NSTCTED AN “OBSERVATN CK” ABOVE THE ROOMS WHERE, THROUGH VENTS, HE WOULD SPY ON HIS CTOMERS. HIS PRIMARY TERT WAS SEX: HE WAS, AS HE GLOATS, THE WORLD’S GREATT VOYR. MOREOVER, BOTH OF HIS WIV (HIS FIRST PASSED AWAY) AID HIS CRIME. THEY BROUGHT HIM SNACKS THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AS HE HOVERED ABOVE HIS SUBJECTS, WAG, WATCHG, AND TAKG NOT.THAT LAST PART IS IMPORTANT. AS FOOS, NOW HIS EIGHTI, EXPLAS HIS RONANT, NO-NONSENSE TON, ONE N ONLY MASTURBATE SO MANY TIM A NIGHT. HIS TAILED JOURNALS ABOUT THE HABS OF THE MOTEL OCCUPANTS GREW, AFTER S, TO AN UNNIABLY EFUL AND FASCATG STUDY. (HE’D DO THGS LIKE LEAVE PORNOGRAPHY THE DRAWERS TO SEE HOW PEOPLE WOULD REACT.) IF ONLY SOMEONE WOULD EVER TAKE HIS FDGS SERLY.ENTER JOURNALIST GAY TALE WHO, 1980, WAS READYG THE RELEASE OF THY NEIGHBOR’S WIFE, HIS OUTSTANDG HISTORY OF THE SEXUAL REVOLUTN. (IF YOU’VE NEVER READ , PSE FOR A MOMENT, OPEN A BROWSER WDOW TO THE BOOK-PURCHASG SE OF YOUR CHOICE, AND HAVE A PY SENT TO YOU STANTLY. APART OM BEG BRILLIANT, IS SURPRISGLY TIMELY; THE RECENTLY PARTED HUGH HEFNER IS A KEY PART OF THE HISTORY.) TALE, PHG HIS NEW WORK ON SHOWS LIKE DONAHUE, RECEIVED A LETTER OM FOOS. THEY BEGAN RRPONDG, AND TALE EVEN VISED THE MOTELIER TO SEE HOW HIS NIGHTLY VOYRISM WORKED. (INED, THE FASHN-FORWARD TALE’S TIE SLIPPG THROUGH A GRATE NEARLY GAVE THE GAME AWAY.)DES LATER, WH TALE AND FOOS BOTH HTG THEIR EIGHTI, THEY AGREED WAS TIME TO SHARE THIS STORY.AND THEN THGS GOT WEIRD.VOYR VIGORATGLY LAYS OUT HOW TALE TRANSLATED HIS IENDSHIP TO BOOK FORM, G A [SHOCKG EXCERPT THE NEW YORKER TO MAKE HEADL. BUT DOCUMENTARIANS MYL KANE AND JOSH KOURY ARE ALSO SLY ABOUT KEEPG THE STORY’S SUBSEQUENT TWISTS CLOSE TO THE VT, EVEN THOSE THAT VIEWERS MAY SEE G THANKS TO PREV PRS VERAGE OF THE FALLOUT OM THAT EXCERPT.THERE ARE ISSU OF TST BETWEEN THE TWO MEN. IT’S UNCLEAR WHO IS EXPLOG WHOM—AND IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW WHAT IS BEG RECREATED FOR THE MERA AND WHAT IS BEG PTURED “LIVE.” THIS IS ALL TO THE BETTERMENT OF VOYR, WHICH, ISN’T TOO MUCH OF A SPOILER TO SAY, ULTIMATELY NCLUS THAT MR. TALE AND MR. FOOS AREN’T ALL THAT DIFFERENT OM ONE ANOTHER.THAT SUMMATN MIGHT SHOCK BOTH MEN, WHO PORT THEMSELV AS IF OM SEPARATE WORLDS. TALE IS A SLENR, BONAIR DANDY RARELY SEEN ANYTHG BUT A BPOKE SU WHO STEPS TO MANHATTAN’S NIGHT LIFE OM HIS UPPER EAST SI TOWNHOE. FOOS IS AN OVERWEIGHT SHUT- THE COLORADO SUBURBS WHO WATCH TELEVISN SWEATPANTS. A PARTICULARLY CHOICE MOMENT THE FILM IS AN ANGRY MONOLOGUE FOOS GIV WHILE SLOWLY SCENDG A STAIRSE A MOTORIZED CHAIR. IN FOOS’S BASEMENT ARE ENDLS BOX EXPOSG HIS LIFE AS AN OBSSIVE LLECTOR. (BASEBALL RDS, CEREAL BOX, S, YOU NAME .) TALE’S BASEMENT MAY HAVE A MORE NOBLE GOAL—’S WHERE HE WR HIS AWARD-WNG JOURNALISM—BUT IS NO LS A WAREHOE OF CLIPPGS, FIL, AND BETS ABOUT THE SUBJECTS HE’S BEEN FOCED ON FOR S.TALE KEEPS AN ENORMO RDBOARD CUTOUT OF HIMSELF HIS HOME, AS WELL AS MANY AMED PORTRAS. HE IS A LIVG LEGEND AND A TALENT WH FEW RIVALS, BUT HE ALSO LIK THE SPOTLIGHT. THAT’S LUCKY FOR THE FILM, AS HIS EAGERNS AS A DOCUMENTARY SUBJECT EXPOS HIM TO SOME FASCATG SCTY. BUT ’S EVEN BETTER LUCK FOR THOSE OF WATCHG ON THE OTHER SI OF THE SCREEN, THE DARK WHERE WE N’T BE SEEN.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISJORDAN HOFFMAN
• DOCUMENTARY FILM ON GAY TALE AND ‘THE VOYR’S MOTEL’ WRAPS FILMG
• SAM MENS, DREAMWORKS DROP GAY TALE ‘VOYR’S MOTEL’ MOVIE AFTER BEG BLDSID BY DOCUMENTARY
• JOSH KOURY AND MYL KANE ON THEIR CONTROVERSIAL GAY TALE DOCUMENTARY VOYR
• OTHER BOOKS BY GAY TALE
• ‘GAY TALE AND THE VOYR’ DOCUMENTARY COMPLETED ABOUT CONTROVERSIAL BOOK ‘THE VOYR’S MOTEL’
• GAY TALE
• NETFLIX TO RELEASE GAY TALE, JOAN DIDN DOCUMENTARI
• BART & FLEMG: GAY TALE BLAM JASON BLUM FOR ‘VOYR’S MOTEL’ IMPLOSN & BLUM STOILLY EXS DOCUMENTARY
• GAY TALE'S CONTROVERSIAL BOOK FALLS APART THE TRAILER FOR 'VOYR'

‘VOYR’ REVIEW: NETFLIX’S DEVIANT GAY TALE DOC CAN’T DECI WHAT WANTS TO LOOK AT

“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. The Netflix documentary explor the wrer Gay Tale’s odd relatnship wh his subject Gerald Foos, a peepg tom.

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He explas this to the directors of a new Netflix documentary butg Friday bee Foos has e to be that most ntradictory of begs: a voyr who wants to be ptur Foos’s public unverg at the hands of Gay Tale, the magaze wrer and New Journalism pneer who first met Foos 1980, and who fally published his story a 2016 New Yorker feature lled “The Voyr’s Motel, ” followed by a book of the same name.

VOYR REVIEW: A FASCATG, COMPLITED FILM ABOUT SEX AND SECRETSTHE HUBBUB SURROUNDG GAY TALE’S BOOK ABOUT A NOTOR MOTEL VOYR GETS THE FULL-LENGTH DOCUMENTARY TREATMENT.BY JORDAN HOFFMANOCTOBER 5, 2017COURTY OF NETFLIX.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEVOYR, A MARVELO DOCUMENTARY BUTG AT THE NEW YORK FILM FTIVAL BEFORE HEADG TO NETFLIX DECEMBER 1, IS PACKED BEYOND VANCY WH DISCSNS OF WEIGHTY TOPICS LIKE THORIAL TENT, TTH JOURNALISM, AND MEDIA MANIPULATN. BUT BEFORE ANY OF THAT, THERE’S THE PREMISE, WHICH MAY PEL YOU TO JUMP TO A HOT SHOWER. (ONE YOU’RE SURE HAS NO PEEPHOLE.)FOR S, A MOTEL OWNER OUTSI OF DENVER, GERALD FOOS, ED HIS BS AS HIS OWN PRIVATE SOCLOGY LABORATORY. HE NSTCTED AN “OBSERVATN CK” ABOVE THE ROOMS WHERE, THROUGH VENTS, HE WOULD SPY ON HIS CTOMERS. HIS PRIMARY TERT WAS SEX: HE WAS, AS HE GLOATS, THE WORLD’S GREATT VOYR. MOREOVER, BOTH OF HIS WIV (HIS FIRST PASSED AWAY) AID HIS CRIME. THEY BROUGHT HIM SNACKS THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AS HE HOVERED ABOVE HIS SUBJECTS, WAG, WATCHG, AND TAKG NOT.THAT LAST PART IS IMPORTANT. AS FOOS, NOW HIS EIGHTI, EXPLAS HIS RONANT, NO-NONSENSE TON, ONE N ONLY MASTURBATE SO MANY TIM A NIGHT. HIS TAILED JOURNALS ABOUT THE HABS OF THE MOTEL OCCUPANTS GREW, AFTER S, TO AN UNNIABLY EFUL AND FASCATG STUDY. (HE’D DO THGS LIKE LEAVE PORNOGRAPHY THE DRAWERS TO SEE HOW PEOPLE WOULD REACT.) IF ONLY SOMEONE WOULD EVER TAKE HIS FDGS SERLY.ENTER JOURNALIST GAY TALE WHO, 1980, WAS READYG THE RELEASE OF THY NEIGHBOR’S WIFE, HIS OUTSTANDG HISTORY OF THE SEXUAL REVOLUTN. (IF YOU’VE NEVER READ , PSE FOR A MOMENT, OPEN A BROWSER WDOW TO THE BOOK-PURCHASG SE OF YOUR CHOICE, AND HAVE A PY SENT TO YOU STANTLY. APART OM BEG BRILLIANT, IS SURPRISGLY TIMELY; THE RECENTLY PARTED HUGH HEFNER IS A KEY PART OF THE HISTORY.) TALE, PHG HIS NEW WORK ON SHOWS LIKE DONAHUE, RECEIVED A LETTER OM FOOS. THEY BEGAN RRPONDG, AND TALE EVEN VISED THE MOTELIER TO SEE HOW HIS NIGHTLY VOYRISM WORKED. (INED, THE FASHN-FORWARD TALE’S TIE SLIPPG THROUGH A GRATE NEARLY GAVE THE GAME AWAY.)DES LATER, WH TALE AND FOOS BOTH HTG THEIR EIGHTI, THEY AGREED WAS TIME TO SHARE THIS STORY.AND THEN THGS GOT WEIRD.VOYR VIGORATGLY LAYS OUT HOW TALE TRANSLATED HIS IENDSHIP TO BOOK FORM, G A [SHOCKG EXCERPT THE NEW YORKER TO MAKE HEADL. BUT DOCUMENTARIANS MYL KANE AND JOSH KOURY ARE ALSO SLY ABOUT KEEPG THE STORY’S SUBSEQUENT TWISTS CLOSE TO THE VT, EVEN THOSE THAT VIEWERS MAY SEE G THANKS TO PREV PRS VERAGE OF THE FALLOUT OM THAT EXCERPT.THERE ARE ISSU OF TST BETWEEN THE TWO MEN. IT’S UNCLEAR WHO IS EXPLOG WHOM—AND IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW WHAT IS BEG RECREATED FOR THE MERA AND WHAT IS BEG PTURED “LIVE.” THIS IS ALL TO THE BETTERMENT OF VOYR, WHICH, ISN’T TOO MUCH OF A SPOILER TO SAY, ULTIMATELY NCLUS THAT MR. TALE AND MR. FOOS AREN’T ALL THAT DIFFERENT OM ONE ANOTHER.THAT SUMMATN MIGHT SHOCK BOTH MEN, WHO PORT THEMSELV AS IF OM SEPARATE WORLDS. TALE IS A SLENR, BONAIR DANDY RARELY SEEN ANYTHG BUT A BPOKE SU WHO STEPS TO MANHATTAN’S NIGHT LIFE OM HIS UPPER EAST SI TOWNHOE. FOOS IS AN OVERWEIGHT SHUT- THE COLORADO SUBURBS WHO WATCH TELEVISN SWEATPANTS. A PARTICULARLY CHOICE MOMENT THE FILM IS AN ANGRY MONOLOGUE FOOS GIV WHILE SLOWLY SCENDG A STAIRSE A MOTORIZED CHAIR. IN FOOS’S BASEMENT ARE ENDLS BOX EXPOSG HIS LIFE AS AN OBSSIVE LLECTOR. (BASEBALL RDS, CEREAL BOX, S, YOU NAME .) TALE’S BASEMENT MAY HAVE A MORE NOBLE GOAL—’S WHERE HE WR HIS AWARD-WNG JOURNALISM—BUT IS NO LS A WAREHOE OF CLIPPGS, FIL, AND BETS ABOUT THE SUBJECTS HE’S BEEN FOCED ON FOR S.TALE KEEPS AN ENORMO RDBOARD CUTOUT OF HIMSELF HIS HOME, AS WELL AS MANY AMED PORTRAS. HE IS A LIVG LEGEND AND A TALENT WH FEW RIVALS, BUT HE ALSO LIK THE SPOTLIGHT. THAT’S LUCKY FOR THE FILM, AS HIS EAGERNS AS A DOCUMENTARY SUBJECT EXPOS HIM TO SOME FASCATG SCTY. BUT ’S EVEN BETTER LUCK FOR THOSE OF WATCHG ON THE OTHER SI OF THE SCREEN, THE DARK WHERE WE N’T BE SEEN.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISJORDAN HOFFMAN

Mid-media storm Voyr, Foos’s wife Ana star hantly at a py of The Denver Post on their driveway, as if aaid ’s gog to be Foos and Gay Tale are filmed on the former se of the Manor Hoe Motel Aurora, Colorado (Netflix)And both men ultimately suffer life-upendg sndal, as the mera ptur all. Gay Tale was perhaps the most notable of the group. 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. Cast & crewUser reviewsTrivia2017TV-MA1h 35mJournalism in Gay Tale reports on Gerald Foos, the owner of a Colorado motel, who allegedly secretly watched his guts wh the aid of specially signed ceilg vents, peerg down o...

Read allJournalism in Gay Tale reports on Gerald Foos, the owner of a Colorado motel, who allegedly secretly watched his guts wh the aid of specially signed ceilg vents, peerg down om an "observatn platform" he built the motel's attic. Journalism in Gay Tale reports on Gerald Foos, the owner of a Colorado motel, who allegedly secretly watched his guts wh the aid of specially signed ceilg vents, peerg down om an "observatn platform" he built the motel's productn, box office & pany Vios1More like thisReview A sad tale of two unenlightened and unenlightenable agg menThis is the sad story of two old men who were unable to learn the lsons that a long life should have tght them. Voyr, the new Netflix documentary about the journalist Gay Tale's plex relatnship wh one of his subjects, a former motel owner Aurora, Colorado, who ed to watch his guts havg sex om an airshaft above their rooms named Gerald Foos, begs more or ls as a cematic versn of events already well known om published articl, namely the one Tale wrote for The New Yorker  2016, tled "The Voyr's Motel, " that turned Foos om an anonymo nobody to a reviled somebody, lerally, overnight.

DOCUMENTARY FILM ON GAY TALE AND ‘THE VOYR’S MOTEL’ WRAPS FILMG

BgraphyTriviaActorWrerPlay trailer2:00The Booksellers (2019)More at IMDbProContact Agent RumeView ntact at IMDbProKnown for: Wrer1973Boom Boom Room Celebry2016Gay Tale2003Self1976ActorPrev2Bld5. 30, 2017Peppered wh sleazy re-enactments and unflatterg close-ups, “Voyr” — a squirmy documentary about the celebrated journalist Gay Tale’s famo vtigatn of a perverted motel owner — leav you wh an urgent need to take a you done so the Colorado tablishment owned by Gerald Foos some time between 1966 and 1990, your host might have been peerg through a ceilg vent, takg p not on your ablutns.

) If only someone would ever take his fdgs journalist Gay Tale who, 1980, was readyg the release of Thy Neighbor’s Wife, his outstandg history of the sexual revolutn. NEW YORK — A pair of filmmakers thought they’d be pturg celebrated wrer Gay Tale takg a lerary victory lap their new documentary. Former hotel owner Gerald Foos and wrer Gay Tale, om the documentary “Voyr.

SAM MENS, DREAMWORKS DROP GAY TALE ‘VOYR’S MOTEL’ MOVIE AFTER BEG BLDSID BY DOCUMENTARY

Former hotel owner Gerald Foos and wrer Gay Tale durg the filmg of the documentary “Voyr. EXCLUSIVE: Here’s yet another new twist the saga of The Voyr’s Motel, the Gay Tale book about a voyristic motel owner named Gerald Foos that sold a ln-dollar screen rights ctn to DreamWorks for a film that Sam Mens might direct.

After three years productn, edg has begun on the documentary feature Gay Tale and the Voyr.

JOSH KOURY AND MYL KANE ON THEIR CONTROVERSIAL GAY TALE DOCUMENTARY VOYR

Mandatory Cred: Photo by Dave Alloc/Starpix/REX/Shutterstock (5725400ao) Gay Tale Mart Srse Hosts a New York Screeng of A24’s “De Palma”, New York, USA – 09 Jun 2016. EXCLUSIVE: The movie adaptatn of the Gay Tale book The Voyr’s Motel that Sam Mens planned to direct and produce wh Steven Spielberg at DreamWorks has jt been killed. Is Gerald Foos, who bought the motel wh the leerg rooms, or is Gay Tale, who, a way, is equally walkg a moral knife edge by wrg about ?

OTHER BOOKS BY GAY TALE

It was full steam ahead, and we read the book, and there were all the issu where Gay seemed to publicly disavow the book, but I always felt, well, this is part of the story. “What we know now…I’ve now seen the documentary, and is as much a part of the story as Gerald Foos, Gay Tale, and the motel. Readg between the l, I spect what happened is that Gay thought they were makg a documentary that was a ltle b more wispread s thematic ntent.

‘GAY TALE AND THE VOYR’ DOCUMENTARY COMPLETED ABOUT CONTROVERSIAL BOOK ‘THE VOYR’S MOTEL’

Havg started wh a general brief of dog a documentary about the work of Gay Tale, what they end up wh was somethg that had a more specific foc. Gerald Foos and Gay Tale Voyr (Photo by Cris Moris, urty of Netflix).

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Their Voyr — which premiered at NYFF and is now streamg on Netflix — explor the unique relatnship between famed wrer Gay Tale and former motel owner/self clared voyr Gerald Foos. It was a strange dynamic wh Gerald and Gay that first shoot.

Before that was all Gay, and obvly there’s a lot of fascatg thgs about his whole world, but to have the subject of the thor’s book alone was like, “Now we kd of have both sis of the journalistic experience, ” which was excg to thk. The first half of the movie is the ialized, romanticized story as told by Gerald and Gay, the sctive story that Gay fell love wh. Filmmaker: The timacy fely shows, to a pot where you guys are eventually the film, durg a scene volvg a hostile engagement wh you and Gay.

NETFLIX TO RELEASE GAY TALE, JOAN DIDN DOCUMENTARI

Kane: Our volvement, for the most part, was when one of the subjects, eher Gay or Gerald, is referrg to . Filmmaker: You spent years makg this film, and then this media storm me out about the accuraci of Gay’s book. Gay even says to the film crew, “Our fuckg reers are over.

Kane: I personally felt bad for Gay and Gerald. We have the New Yorker [San Morrison] and the book publishers [Man Entriken and Jamison Stoltz] chime , and we briefly hear om Gay’s wife, but was fely a very nsc cisn of, “Are we gonna terview a bunch of people to give outsi ntext?

BART & FLEMG: GAY TALE BLAM JASON BLUM FOR ‘VOYR’S MOTEL’ IMPLOSN & BLUM STOILLY EXS DOCUMENTARY

We’d rather jt see Gay stgglg as opposed to hearg some old lleague of his. Filmmaker: Do you guys still keep touch wh Gerald and Gay? Same wh Gay.

Gay also said that was tough but fair and he rpected . To his cred, throughout productn, Gay always was very clear: “I’m not charge of you guys. Koury: In that showdown between everyone that room, when Gay’s gettg very heated wh , the end of that on his si is, “I’m the journalist, you’re the subject.

GAY TALE'S CONTROVERSIAL BOOK FALLS APART THE TRAILER FOR 'VOYR'

Gay Tale is a btsellg thor who has wrten fourteen books.