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Tony Geary's boyfriend has died

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Keith S

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Nov 26, 2016, 8:23:10 PM11/26/16
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http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/ron-glass-dead-barney-miller-firefly-dies-1201927179/

Ron Glass, a prolific TV actor known for playing Ron Harris in the
sitcom “Barney Miller” and Shepherd Derrial Book in “Firefly,” has died.
He was 71.

PJ

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Nov 27, 2016, 12:17:04 PM11/27/16
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Thanks for posting this. I've always liked Ron Glass a lot, especially on Barney Miller, but I didn't know he and Tony were together. Sad news.

PJ

Laura

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Nov 27, 2016, 7:41:46 PM11/27/16
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I have known that Tony Geary was gay for 25 or so years, and I heard
about Ron Glass dying today, but I had never heard TG connected to Ron
Glass. If this is true, my condolences to him.

Janie

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Nov 29, 2016, 12:08:01 PM11/29/16
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Sorry to hear this.

Kaitlin

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Nov 30, 2016, 1:47:37 PM11/30/16
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Laura wrote in <o1fug7$1dru$1...@gioia.aioe.org>:

> On 11/27/16 10:17 AM, PJ wrote:
>> On Saturday, November 26, 2016 at 5:23:10 PM UTC-8, Keith S wrote:
>>> http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/ron-glass-dead-barney-miller-firefly-dies-1201927179/
>>>
>>> Ron Glass, a prolific TV actor known for playing Ron Harris in the
>>> sitcom “Barney Miller” and Shepherd Derrial Book in “Firefly,” has died.
>>> He was 71.
>>
>> Thanks for posting this. I've always liked Ron Glass a lot, especially on
>> Barney Miller, but I didn't know he and Tony were together. Sad news.
>
> I have known that Tony Geary was gay for 25 or so years, and I heard
> about Ron Glass dying today, but I had never heard TG connected to Ron
> Glass. If this is true, my condolences to him.

Has Tony Geary come out publicly? He seems to be a very private person;
I've never heard him talk about his personal life in interviews other
than a fling with Elizabeth Taylor during the time she played Helena,
and then I sort of had the idea he was just trying to be amusing. Maybe
it was true, maybe not. In any case, I heard a *rumor* once that he had
been involved with Ron Glass years ago. If true, would they still have
been a couple at the time of Ron Glass's death? Ron Glass lived in the
US and Tony Geary lives in Europe. Fairly impossible to maintain a
relationship at that distance, IMO. But maybe they managed it, somehow.

Condolences to Ron Glass's family and friends. Never watched Barney
Miller, but I thoroughly enjoyed him in Firefly.
--
Kai
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