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TIL about Grammy winning musician Janis Ian. At 16, while on tour & after performing late at night on a tv show, she fell asleep on her chaperone's (a female family friend) lap. Bill Cosby saw this, pronounced her a "lesbian", and actively attempted to blacklist her from all television.

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