Original journalism/history
Fairy Boy
He was a Christian kid named Bruce—for a while
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13 min readMay 26, 2020
In 1973–74, a David Bowie-ish glitter rock singer named Jobriath came out as “the true fairy.” After two albums, he flamed out, and died of AIDS in 1983. I’ve spent years researching his story. This is part 1.
