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Contents:

• EX-FOX AND CBS ANCHOR JIM WALKER HAS NEW JOB AS A GAY PORN STAR
• JASON GAY
• JORDANGAY
• QUEER FANS MOURN LLIE JORDAN, A SYMBOL OF A 'LOST GENERATN' OF GAY MEN
• JEREMY JORDAN OPENS UP ABOUT ALLEGATNS HIS GAY CO WAS HELD AT CHRISTIAN BOARDG SCHOOL
• LLIE JORDAN MA ME BELIEVE IN MY OWN GAY FUTURE

EX-FOX AND CBS ANCHOR JIM WALKER HAS NEW JOB AS A GAY PORN STAR

Former Fox and CBS anchor has a new job as a gay porn star and says there's much ls prsure his current le of work Jim Walker left his job as a news anchor 2013, after 23 yearsHe opted for a change of reer, reventg himself as Dallas SteeleThe 44-year-old h back at trolls and said he don't plan to 'go quietly to the night'He has had implants his backsi, which he said were paid for by a client Published: 08:59 BST, 21 October 2016 | Updated: 17:01 BST, 21 October 2016. For more than two s Jim Walker was a clean-cut anchor who read the news on Fox, NBC and was nomated for two regnal Emmys and beme known for his lm and thorative livery of the after 23 years he left that all behd him to embark on a pletely different reer - reventg himself as Dallas Steele, a gay porn actor wh dozens of blue movi to his and now: For 23 years Walker was a news reporter and anchor, but when he left the dtry 2013 he revented himself as a gay porn actor The 44-year-old h back at trolls, sayg he 'feels bad for them', and vowed never to 'go quietly to the night'The 44-year-old said he turned his back on the news works bee of the immense prsure to get has had implants his backsi, which he said were paid for by an rt client, and says he has no regrets.

The actor said an terview: 'I’m much more succsful every measure than I ever was before'He was a well-known news anchor and reporter for more than 20 years before makg the move to gay porn movi'It was a good thg gettg released om my ntract, ' he move has, however, ma him a target for ter told reporters he 'feels bad' for those who cricize him - and those who brand the change reer a 'midlife crisis' - statg: 'They’ve obvly cid at some pot that there are limatns about who you n be and what you n do once you h 40. 'I’m sorry if the haters have cid that gays over 40 are supposed to put on the board shorts, move to the suburbs and settle down to bridge parti once per week.

"I have been gay my entire life, sce I was a child. Though some of that live big ci n feel like half of the world is gay, 's a stark difference om many livg small towns. "I was takg my mom somewhere one day and she jt asked 'are you gay?

JASON GAY

"I was so sred of what actually meant to ll yourself gay so even the first man I dated, I still thought that afterwards I was gog to eventually meet a girl and get married bee that's what men did, " he said. "But I was steadfast that like 'I'm gay and I probably shouldn't have been talg to someone that was 20 but I'm not gog to therapy, '" he said.

Apparently Bex Banks was the last to fd out he was gay. Though he was engaged gay sex, he didn't intify as gay.

At age 21, his mom had enouugh and mand an explatn for the gay porn she was fdg on the puter and phone. "Once I had the nversatn wh my mom, I had no problem sayg I was gay, " he said.

JORDANGAY

"I was actually rehab when I was 16 years old and I thk a part of why I end up gog to rehab was the difficulty I had wh acceptg myself as a gay person, " Sharok said. For him, beg gay was a ath sentence beg that he grew up the 1990s durg the HIV/AIDS epimic and a fay member died of the disease. "At that pot was kd of like an emotnal avalanche and I jt let all out and told her that I was gay.

QUEER FANS MOURN LLIE JORDAN, A SYMBOL OF A 'LOST GENERATN' OF GAY MEN

" Fran said that while they have grown to accept him, his fay still believ he shouldn't act on his homosexualy. " At the time, Zevran was a gogo dancer performg gay clubs.

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JEREMY JORDAN OPENS UP ABOUT ALLEGATNS HIS GAY CO WAS HELD AT CHRISTIAN BOARDG SCHOOL

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LLIE JORDAN MA ME BELIEVE IN MY OWN GAY FUTURE

The guys are younger than me, but we all have the same gay shame. The LGBTQ muny is reelg om the news of beloved gay in Llie Jordan’s ath. Jordan — an effemate Southern gay actor who for s occupied his own special rner of queer culture — died Monday morng a r crash Hollywood.

” Jordan’s character eventually out as gay on the show, which self broke major barriers for s time s reprentatn of gay men, though mostly whe and cisgenr, on work televisn. ” For many, Jordan was a symbol of the joy of unqutnably visible queerns — of reclaimg and rejoicg long-held stereotyp about the feme affects of gay men. We apologize, this vio has was a teenager as the gay rights movement started to pick up steam.

In the late ’60s and early ’70s, amid the Stonewall uprisg and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s removal of homosexualy om s official list of mental disorrs, he was g to terms wh his inty as Amerins’ ias about sexualy were also startg to change. Gay men like Jordan, born om 1946 to 1964 and classified as baby boomers, were h the harst at the peak of the crisis, om the late ’80s and throughout the ’90s.