S2 Ep 2: Bret Ellis, Valley Boy

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Sep 29, 202149:14Society & Culture

Los Angeles, 1980-1981. “There was just this huge sense that the world was gay, gay, gay.” The origin story of Bret Easton Ellis (and Less Than Zero ), Part One.

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