the next guy
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Director Lee Daniels discovered his sexuality in an oppressive family home that could have been torn from the script of "Precious" — severely beaten as a child when his Philadelphia policeman dad found him wearing his mother's shoes.
"When I came out it was because I loathed my dad so much — I couldn't understand how you could, with an extension cord, beat a 45-pound kid just because he's aware of his femininity," he told Out Magazine of his father, who died during a raid in 1975.
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"When I came out it was because I loathed my dad so much — I couldn't understand how you could, with an extension cord, beat a 45-pound kid just because he's aware of his femininity," he told Out Magazine of his father, who died during a raid in 1975.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertai...n-loathed-dad-article-1.1516789#ixzz2keMC5eXL