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- GAY IN LLIE JORDAN HAS DIED AT THE AGE OF 67
- BOB SMH, GROUNDBREAKG GAY COMEDIAN, IS DEAD AT 59
- BOB SMH DI: FIRST OPENLY GAY COMIC TO APPEAR ON ‘THE TONIGHT SHOW’ WAS 59
GAY IN LLIE JORDAN HAS DIED AT THE AGE OF 67
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BOB SMH, GROUNDBREAKG GAY COMEDIAN, IS DEAD AT 59
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BOB SMH DI: FIRST OPENLY GAY COMIC TO APPEAR ON ‘THE TONIGHT SHOW’ WAS 59
”Try said she drew spiratn om the LGBTQ cult classic “Sordid Liv, ” a 2000 film based on a play of the same name, which Jordan played Earl “Brother Boy” Ingram, a gay drag queen whose Texas fay stggl to accept him. In a statement posted to Twter, Sarah Kate Ellis, print and chief executive of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, said Jordan “was a multi-talented entertaer who charmed dienc for s wh heartfelt characters on-screen and passnate LGBTQ advocy off-screen. (Evan Agosti / Invisn/Associated Prs) In many of his Instagram vios, Jordan shared stori of the difficulti growg up gay a relig environment wh a father who served the ary.