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When JT Leroy’s gripping novels came out, based on his life as a gender-ambiguous son of a truck-stop prostitute, the world was fascinated. Celebrities like Sandra Bernhard, Billy Corgan and Gus Van Sant flocked to help him and the literary world went crazy for the young man. But as you’ll see in The Cult of JT Leroy, it was all a hoax. There was no JT Leroy, just Laura Albert, a writer with her own ambiguous story. Why did she make up JT Leroy? Where did these stories really come from? That’s what the documentary examines through interviews with the celebrities who were duped as well as footage of the fictitious Leroy. See this fascinating, perplexing and engaging film at Outfest 2015 in Los Angeles.
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