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I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It stopped me being a 'mummy's boy.'

Rufus Wainwright

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Rufus Wainwright
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 22
Composer
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
Rhinebeck (village)
New York
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright
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Homosexuality
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