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In reply to the discussion: Did you hate, fear or dislike gay people at one time? [View all]TexasBushwhacker
(20,276 posts)It's his middle name. He met his partner, Bonnie Nettles, at our church. She left her family, including 2 special needs sons, to join him on their spiritual quest. She went by Ti and he went by Do (as in Do Ray Me ...).
I followed a True Crime newsgroup at the time and posted about it. I was contacted from someone at NBC! She was just looking for as much background as possible.
I told her "Not that it really matters, but he was gay. She said "He was gay !!!!" I don't think the castrations of Herff and the other males had been reported. It turned out that he was raised in a religious home and had always been conflicted about his homosexuality. He did briefly live as an openly gay man for a while and even lived in the "gay" part of town (Montrose).