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HE LIVED TO TELL: OPENLY GAY JONTOWN RINT VERNON GOSNEY PED THE MUNE WH THREE BULLET WOUNDS, BUT HIS 5-YEAR-OLD SON WAS NOT AS LUCKY.
* was jim jones gay *
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) The same importance for the e – perhaps even greater – was placed on some men to fake homosexualy to protect Jim. Men didn’t have to say that they had had a homosexual act, but they had to rema quiet if Jim stated public that he had sex wh them.