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20 STRAIGHT CHARACTERS WE DIDN'T KNOW WERE OPENLY GAY IN REAL LIFE
I'd heard plenty of tim that Mahoney was gay but not officially out: Sometim the story was he had a partner. "But no such acunt om Dan Butler or David Hy Pierce, two gay men who knew Mahoney om workg together on Frasier. A story was passed along to me that he once stopped talkg to a iend the 1980s for divulgg he was gay.
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