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Contents:
- ‘INSPECTN’ DIRECTOR LLS NEW MARE FILM THE ‘BLACK, GAY ROCKY’
- THIS GAY MARE VET JT MA A MOVIE BASED ON HIS LIFE THE CORPS DURG 'DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL'
‘INSPECTN’ DIRECTOR LLS NEW MARE FILM THE ‘BLACK, GAY ROCKY’
Rt assured, there are still plenty of cematic treats on the horizon: We’ve got an Atralian ballroom romance, a Bayard Rt bpic, Pedro Pasl playg a gay wboy, and loads of lic queer horror.
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THIS GAY MARE VET JT MA A MOVIE BASED ON HIS LIFE THE CORPS DURG 'DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL'
“I was kicked out of the hoe at 16 for beg gay, and I spent the next 10 years homels, ” he told Milary Tim.
“Ultimately, ’s Black, gay Rocky. When Greg Cope Whe first vised a Mare Corps recer 1979, he had what was then a disqualifyg secret: He was (and still is) a homosexual man.
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