Contents:
- MERITH BAXTER ADMS IT WAS MICHAEL J. FOX THAT MA HER GAY
- LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I'M GAY AND DON'T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT
- MEREDH BAXTER: Y, I'M GAY
MERITH BAXTER ADMS IT WAS MICHAEL J. FOX THAT MA HER GAY
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LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I'M GAY AND DON'T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT
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MEREDH BAXTER: Y, I'M GAY
March 2, 2011 — -- Meredh Baxter led a "secret life" as an emotnally abed wife for years before learng she was gay and enterg "the healthit relatnship I have ever had, " the star of the '80s show, "Fay Ti, " told Oprah Wey today while holdg the hand of her lbian, 63, also joed by her former televisn -star, Michael Gross, and her children, appeared on "Oprah" to discs her allegedly abive marriage and what led her to disver she was gay. "At one pot, Wey asked Baxter's children if they knew their mother was gay. It's no secret that I'm gay, but has been to the greater world.
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