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GAY NEW AGE GU RAM DASS DI
I jt recently found out that Ram Dass was gay and for some reason my entire rpect and honor towards him seems to be shattered as if all of his words and advice seem phony now (and I'm not even sure why--maybe my former Christian background? I grew up a time where I was a closet homosexual.
So pretty soon, they gave me all the homosexual s. Allen Gsberg is a very close iend of me, and for a long time, bee Allen was beg very much publicly gay his wrgs and his wrg at work, I qutned whether that was my role too. Ram Dass, a gay man who epomized the untercultural psychelic 1960s and later beme a btsellg New Age gu, died December 22 at his home on Mi, Hawaii.
In 1994, an terview wh gay journalist Mark Thompson, later published his book, "Gay Soul: Fdg the Heart of Gay Spir and Nature, " Mr.
”DYG TO KNOW: RAM DASS & TIMOTHY LEARY” BY GAY DILLGHAM
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"As for the young gay kids g out and growg up, I say this, 'Don't label yourselv.