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“OLD YELLER” STAR TOMMY KIRK PASS. DISNEY FIRED HIM WHEN HE WAS OUTED AS GAY.
Tommy Kirk – the legendary child actor who starred as Travis Coat Old Yeller and whose work for Disney me to an end when he was outed as gay – has passed away at the age of 79. Throughout this time, Kirk would later say that he knew he was gay and “sperately unhappy.