Danny Roberts, a star of “The Real World” on MTV, brought a sense of possibily to the pop culture landspe durg a ght time for gay reprentatn.
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“You keep repeatg your head: I’m gog to get gay-bashed the parkg lot jt tryg to get my groceri.