An excerpt om Jam Kirchick's ‘Secret Cy: The Hidn History of Gay Washgton’ reunts the story of polil strategist Terry Dolan.
Contents:
- HOW AN OPENLY GAY D.C. SOUL SGER MA MOTOWN HISTORY
- IS ACTOR ANTHONY GEARY GAY? HIS PAST AFFAIR WH THE OSR WNG ACTRS
- THE ULTRANSERVATIVE BROTHERS PULLED STRGS REAGAN’S WASHGTON. THEN ONE OF THEM WAS OUTED AS GAY
- IS TONY GAY '13 REASONS WHY'? HERE'S HOW THE TV SHOW ADDS LGBTQ CHARACTERS.
HOW AN OPENLY GAY D.C. SOUL SGER MA MOTOWN HISTORY
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IS ACTOR ANTHONY GEARY GAY? HIS PAST AFFAIR WH THE OSR WNG ACTRS
But a soul group wh an openly gay ontman? He says The Dynamic Superrs helped break a barrier for openly gay performers, and certaly for Motown Rerds, which gave the group a multiyear al the 1970s. “It’s not like beg gay was gog to shock [everyone at the time], ’s jt Motown, ” Coombe says.
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Tony was the only openly gay member of the group. Note: Washgton said a 1977 terview that he had another gay bandmate who hadn’t e out.
THE ULTRANSERVATIVE BROTHERS PULLED STRGS REAGAN’S WASHGTON. THEN ONE OF THEM WAS OUTED AS GAY
Washgton was pretty out there—he wore makp, he would drs such a way that is clear that he was gay. They got to the pot where Motown was fortable releasg album vers that really flnted the fact that the guys had a nnectn to the gay muny.
They intified the fact that he was gay.
IS TONY GAY '13 REASONS WHY'? HERE'S HOW THE TV SHOW ADDS LGBTQ CHARACTERS.
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