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Disturbing Bromances

Disturbing Bromances

Why do powerful straight men risk everything for their infatuations with other men?

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Virginia Heffernan
May 17, 2023
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The men are talking.

With Jeffrey Epstein back in the news, it’s worth asking again: Why do powerful straight men risk everything for their infatuations with other men?

Years ago, I fact-checked two memoirs by two different powerbrokers. Their books wised me up to an invisible poltergeist in world events: The feverish passion of one straight man for anot…

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