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Contents:
- STATE DEPARTMENT'S 1ST OPENLY GAY SPOKPERSON SENDS SIGNAL TO THE WORLD, ADVOT SAY
- ANTHONY GAY APPEALS FOR HELP OM FERAL PRISON
- IS ACTOR ANTHONY GEARY GAY? HIS PAST AFFAIR WH THE OSR WNG ACTRS
STATE DEPARTMENT'S 1ST OPENLY GAY SPOKPERSON SENDS SIGNAL TO THE WORLD, ADVOT SAY
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ANTHONY GAY APPEALS FOR HELP OM FERAL PRISON
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IS ACTOR ANTHONY GEARY GAY? HIS PAST AFFAIR WH THE OSR WNG ACTRS
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After spendg 22 years solary nfement, Anthony Gay is tryg to make sure no other prisoner Illois has to experience the same level of trma that he went is the face of the state's Anthony Gay Isolated Confement Act, a bill veloped over the last 10 years that would lim solary nfement to no more than 10 days per six-month perd. "The worst part is beg trapped a cell 24/7, not beg able to receive social ntact and human ntact, " said Gay, who was released om prison 2018 after reprentg himself over 80 appeals before he was able to reta the help of a 's path to solary nfement began when he was 20 years old. "After spendg 22 years solary nfement, Anthony Gay is tryg to make sure no other prisoner Illois has to experience the same level of trma that he went, of Rock Island, Illois, said he was arrted durg his probatn for drivg whout a license.
"I had no ia that I was about to be tortured for s, " he servg time, Gay was volved another fight, which land him solary nfement. "Gay said he was the cell for 24 hours a day and that ocsnally he'd be let out for an hour.