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Filmmaker cum author Dan Bessie stopped by The Untreed Reads Blog to bring a little family history to light in honor of Gay History Month. At age fourteen, I’d never heard the term “gay.” It wasn’t used during my formative years, from the mid-1940s into the 50s. My pals bandied about, “queer” then, or “fruit,” fairy,” or perhaps, “homo” Sure, I laughed at and even passed on the same disparaging…