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Contents:
- 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.
- NE-YO GO OFF ABOUT JIM JON & GAY RUMORS!
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.
As an “open and affirmg” church that weled LGBTQs the era of the Florida sunshe homophobe poster-girl Ana Bryant and her “Save the Children” mpaign, the Peopl Temple was a safe and sacred sanctuary.
The Peopl Temple marched Gay Pri and embraced a social gospel of radil cln. Many would argue that Jon public pro-gay persona was both strategilly polil and personally self-servg.
Before Jon was chair of the hog missn Jon’s activism tersected wh Harvey Milk’s, the first openly gay to be elected to the cy’s first district electns for Board of Supervisors November 1977. Jim Jon, a closeted gay? Were the many heterosexual dallianc wh women and the fay man image wh dozens of children around him merely his gay vep?
NE-YO GO OFF ABOUT JIM JON & GAY RUMORS!
“Jim said that all of were homosexuals, ” Joyce Hoton, an ex-Temple follower, said the “Jontown” documentary.
He was the only heterosexual on the pla, and that the women were all lbians; the guys were all gay. His sexual ambiguy and anim toward homoeroticism were impuls he uld neher closet nor ntrol.
For example, Jon openly and public sexually molted a male ngregant ont of followers to “prove the man’s own homosexual tennci. ” Other tim when Jon engaged gay sex, he purportedly was dog as a symbolic act to have men nnect wh him.