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Contents:

• GAY TALE'S LEGACY WILL SURVIVE THE VOYR'S MOTEL SNDAL
• GAY TALE
• GAY TALE EXPLAS WHY HE WROTE INIC ESQUIRE PROFILE “FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD”
• NOT OM UNRGROUND: GAY TALE’S OFFICE
• GAY TALE’S OTHER PROBLEM
• GAY TALE
• GAY TALE: PNEER OF NEW JOURNALISM
• THE LIFE AND <STRIKE>LOV</STRIKE> LOVE OF GAY TALE
• GAY TALE: 'SATRA HAS A COLD'
• OTHER BOOKS BY GAY TALE
• THE GAY TALE REAR: PORTRAS AND ENUNTERS
• GAY TALE: A MAN OF RERD
• GAY TALE DEFENDS ‘THE VOYR’S MOTEL’ AFTER SOURCE IS UNRCUT

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

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 . 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 liv on the East Si of Manhattan, a four-story brownstone he moved to 1958, at age 26.

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Gay Tale: Harold Hay, Esquire‘s edor, gave me a one-year ntract to do six piec.

” “Look, Gay, ” said Hay, “’s all set up.

Where do this fall your hierarchy of Gay Tale piec? By Gay Tale.

GAY TALE EXPLAS WHY HE WROTE INIC ESQUIRE PROFILE “FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD”

People say, “Oh, Gay, how did you get that?

NOT OM UNRGROUND: GAY TALE’S OFFICE

But when Gay Tale wr about Italian-Amerins, there are very few people this untry who n tell me more than I know about that subject. And when I see this guy — Vcent DeRosa, who I hadn’t met and never saw after that — I, Gay Tale, n unrstand . Unr the townhoe where the legendary wrer Gay Tale and his wife, Nan, have lived for over half a century is what Tale lls his “subterranean thk tank.

Gay Tale’s Other Problem.

Gay Tale.

GAY TALE’S OTHER PROBLEM

Gay Tale probably wish he’d had a ld. Gay Tale Exam His Very-Public, 50-Year Marriage for Upg Book -- New York Magaze - Nymag. It isn’t until our third terview that I notice Gay Tale has been stg unrneath a patg of a naked woman wh a rabow g out of her vaga.

It is here where they began their life together as a uple their mid-twenti, when the five-story brownstone was like a tenement and Gay lived 3F, a stud they both still refer to as his “bachelor pad”; this is where they raised their two dghters, Pamela and Cathere, and slowly took over every apartment the buildg before fally buyg 1973; this is where they have held numerable book parti for Nan’s celebrated thors; and this is where Gay has done much of the wrg—the historic Esquire piec, the bt sellers wh biblil tl—that brought him fame, fortune, and no small amount of personal agony. Gay wr his new afterword that the immediate aftermath of the book’s publitn, Nan acpanied him on talk shows “to expla that our maral love had remaed unthreatened while I nducted rearch New York massage parlors and a hedonistic nudist lony Los Angel”—which is only half te. Nan and Gay elopg Rome, Courty of Gay Tale.

It seems far removed om Gay’s realm, jt a floor above, where he keeps the artifacts of his storied reer (cludg a life-size rdboard cutout of himself) along wh his untls bpoke sus and dozens of hand-bbled sho. ” Gay asks his wife. ” As slowly dawns on me that Gay has not told her that he has agreed to participate an article about their marriage, I n feel the tensn beg to rise.

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“Jonathan is gog to ll you, ” says Gay. ” About Gay, I say, but you too. Sudnly, Gay pip up, a stern edge to his voice, givg an orr.

” Nan giv me the digs and then Gay says, “Good! That was when she put the A (her main name is Ahearn) to her name, as if to say wh a sgle letter: I am not jt Gay’s wife. The fay 1980, the year Thy Neighbor's Wife was Thomas Victor/Courty of Gay Tale.

When I first lled Nan to schle an terview, the small talk was brief and mostly about Gay.

GAY TALE: PNEER OF NEW JOURNALISM

Stuff of legend: One eveng 1972, when Nan and Gay were walkg home om dner at P. Clarke’s, Gay spied a neon sign above a buildg on Lexgton Avenue near 59th Street that read LIVE NUDE MODELS.

Gay said to Nan, “Let’s go check that out.

THE LIFE AND <STRIKE>LOV</STRIKE> LOVE OF GAY TALE

” Nan said to Gay, “No, no, no. The rultg piece, “An Eveng the Nu Wh Gay Tale, ” scrib Tale nng around the cy wh a bunch of louche swgers and livg up at sex clubs. To be fair, seemed that Gay had already been tryg Nan’s patience wh his rearch.

Nan told Gay: “It’s your book, ’s your style of rearch.

“I told Gay, ‘Don’t do .

GAY TALE: 'SATRA HAS A COLD'

I prs a ltle further: There are a lot of people who still believe that Gay huiated you, I tell her. In the Hamptons, Courty of Gay Tale. “Her fn of marriage up agast me—they’re not what would be the dictnary, ” retorts Gay.

Nan has said the past that she has not, though Gay, through y hts the prs, would perhaps like to believe otherwise. This is not a woman livg a nunnery, ” Gay said an em the Daily News last year. Is Gay a philanrg bastard or a pneerg anthropologist?

When I ask Gay if he is at all worried about draggg Nan and their relatnship and even their sex life back to the spotlight, he says he’s not. “You know, I jt tst Gay, ” she says. Nan and Gay were troduced through a iend 1957 and “urted for two and a half years, ” as Nan puts .

OTHER BOOKS BY GAY TALE

Her mother, a woman who had social ambns for her dghter, was never crazy about Gay, but she sisted they get engaged if they were gog to see each other exclively. When Gay went to Rome to wre a piece for The New York Tim Magaze and bled her to jo him, Nan saw her opportuny. “Gay has asked me to e to Rome to get married.

THE GAY TALE REAR: PORTRAS AND ENUNTERS

”) Then she lled Gay’s parents and asked them to send his birth certifite to the New York Tim bure Rome and bought a one-way ticket on Alalia. When she arrived and told Gay what she’d done, he buried his head his arm. ” Gay n still work up a h outrage about what he lls the “Showdown Rome, ” but ’s upled wh a dose of admiratn for Nan’s temery.

GAY TALE: A MAN OF RERD

” asks Gay. In Ocean Cy, New Jersey, cir Courty of Gay Tale. Gay was vastated when she dumped him.

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

Nan did her bt to ease Gay’s passage om bachelorhood to fay life. “It took me months to get up the urage to tell Gay I bought . ” she says, and then explas that Gay had, fact, vetoed the purchase.

” Gay’s ey grew wild wh rage.