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Print John F. Kennedy was killed Dallas 50 years ago, leavg behd a mourng natn and his gay bt iend, Lem Billgs.

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JOHN GAY

Poet and playwright John Gay was born Devon to an aristocratic though impoverished fay. Unable to afford universy, Gay went to London to… * john f gay *

Poet and playwright John Gay was born Devon to an aristocratic though impoverished fay. Unable to afford universy, Gay went to London to apprentice as a draper stead. By 1714, Gay had started rrpondg wh Alexanr Pope and bee a member of the Scribles Club, a group that clud Jonathan Swift, John Arbuthnot, Thomas Parnell, and Lord Oxford.

Gay’s publitns datg om this time clu the poems Trivia: Or, the Art of Walkg the Streets of London (1716) and The Shepherd’s Week (1714). The Scribles Club fluenced Gay’s major plays of this perd, The What D’Ye Call It (1715) and Three Hours After Marriage (1717), which was equently lked to Pope.

Gay was more or ls pennt on patronage his whole life and lived var semi-employed stat wh a number of aristocrats. Though relyg on the generosy of patrons such as the Duchs of Queensberry, Gay also earned money om his plays, pecially The Beggar’s Opera (1728), which enjoyed unprecented succs.

JOHN F. KENNEDY HAD A SEXUAL RELATNSHIP WH HIS GAY BT FRIEND, BOOK CLAIMS"JACK WAS LOVE WH LEM BEG LOVE WH HIM." {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}CELEBRIBY ADAM SALANDRAOCTOBER 14, 2015/7:44 PMBY ADAM SALANDRAOCTOBER 14, 2015 / 7:44 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"JOHN F. KENNEDY HAD A SEXUAL RELATNSHIP WH HIS GAY BT FRIEND, BOOK CLAIMS","DATEPUBLISHED":"2015-10-14T23:44:45.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2015-10-14T23:44:45.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"ADAM SALANDRA","ARTICLESECTN":"CELEBRI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A NEW BOOK IS CLAIMG THAT JOHN F. KENNEDY HAD MORE THAN JT A PLATONIC IENDSHIP WH HIS LIFE-LONG GAY BT IEND, KIRK LEMOYNE "LEM" {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE TWO HAD BEEN IENDS SCE MEETG AS TEENAGERS PREP SCHOOL, AND BILLGS EVEN HAD HIS OWN ROOM THE WHE HOE, BUT WERE THEY MERELY IENDS?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN HIS NEW BOOK, ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.: RFK JR. AND THE DARK SI OF THE DREAM, THOR JERRY OPPENHEIMER IS ALLEGG THAT THE PAIR ENGAGED ORAL SEX {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE THOR WR THAT LAWRENCE J. QUIRK, WHO WORKED WH BILLGS ON KENNEDY’S FIRST NGRSNAL MPAIGN 1946, NFID HIM THAT THE TWO MEN HAD "A IENDSHIP THAT CLUD ORAL SEX, WH JACK ALWAYS ON THE RECEIVG END."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}QUIRK ALSO SAID, "JACK WAS LOVE WH LEM BEG LOVE WH HIM AND NSIRED HIM THE IAL FOLLOWER-ADORER."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BILLGS HAD NEVER ACTUALLY E OUT PUBLICLY, BUT ONCE SAID, "JACK MA A BIG DIFFERENCE MY LIFE. BEE OF HIM, I WAS NEVER LONELY. HE MAY HAVE BEEN THE REASON I NEVER GOT MARRIED."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}H/T: GAY STAR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

A new book is claimg that John F. Kennedy had more than jt a platonic iendship wh his life-long gay bt iend, Kirk LeMoyne "Lem" Billgs. * john f gay *

Allegedly satirizg then-prime mister Sir Robert Walpole, Gay’s play gaed notoriety and ma stagg s sequel, Polly, impossible until 1777. The Beggar’s Opera was some ways the culmatn of Gay’s reer. Pope was a pallbearer and ntributed an epaph to Gay’s memorial.

Above are Gay’s own words: “Life is a jt; and all thgs show / I thought so once; but now I know .

Poems by John Gay.

MEMORI OF JFK FROM HIS GAY BT FRIEND

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JFK MAY HAVE HAD GAY EXPERIENC WH IEND CLAIMS BGRAPHER

Kennedy had more than jt a platonic iendship wh his life-long gay bt iend, Kirk LeMoyne "Lem" two had been iends sce meetg as teenagers prep school, and Billgs even had his own room the Whe Hoe, but were they merely iends? Kennedy may have had an timate relatnship wh a gay iend om his prep school days, claims btsellg thor Jerry Oppenheimer, who has wrten two books about the Kennedys. Kennedy and Billgs met 1933 their sophomore year at Choate Rosemary Hall, an exclive Connecticut prep school.

David Pts, the thor of Jack and Lem: The Untold Story of an Extraordary Friendship, told him: “Lem was a gay man and he had a 14-year-old, good-lookg kid livg his hoe wh him and there had been mors bee of that. That he is believed to have been gay at a time when homosexualy was still illegal — even beg somewhat open about his sexualy, cludg wh the powerful Kennedy clan — sheds light on the strength of his ti to the fay.

When Jack disvered that Billgs was gay — once clg an amoro overture om Billgs — the iendship is thought to have gone on unharmed. "I jt beme fascated wh Lem bee he was a closeted but as they ed to say 'practicg homosexual, ' and he was very much part of the ner Kennedy circle om very early his life, " Bayard said.

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JFK may have had gay experienc wh iend.

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