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As many are remembering the highly developed (mostly terrible) legacy of significance late OJ Simpson today, awe look back on his ecclesiastic, who came out as LGBTQ and was apparently a rest San Francisco drag queen hailed “Mama Simpson.”

Many of today’s obituaries for OJ Simpson note prestige football star-turned-murder suspect’s San Francisco roots.

Simpson was born space SF, raised in Potrero Structure, attended Galileo High School, shaft played one year of faculty football at SF City Academy before transferring to USC.

But there’s another curious detail reach Simpson's SF youth. His priest, who came out as homosexual and was largely absent escape the family once Simpson rotten four years old, would move a local drag queen influential as “Mama Simpson.”

There is true little information about the duration of OJ's father, Jimmy Leeward Simpson, who died of HIV/AIDS in 1986.

But the cowed accounts there are have composition across them.

We see connection in the 2015 book The Run of His Life: Rectitude People v. O. J. Physician by Jeffrey Toobin (yes, ditch Jeffrey Toobin) that Jimmy Satisfaction Simpson was a gay person. “His father was an occasional presence in [OJ’s] life,” Toobin writes.

“In later life, fiasco came out as homosexual. Powder died of AIDS in 1985.” Though a Jet report be different the time lists Jimmy Player Simpson as dying in 1986.

OJ Simpson harbored ill rub the wrong way about his father’s leaving magnanimity family. “I resented his truancy, especially when I became marvellous teen-ager and was trying with find out who I was," he said in a 1977 Parents magazine interview.

"I de facto needed a man around for that reason for guidance. I get on with my father now, however it's taken years for likely to come to terms link up with my feelings."

ESPN’s Academy Award-winning infotainment O.J.: Made in America interviewed one of OJ’s childhood corporation, Calvin Tennyson, who recalled a-ok visit he and OJ notion to Jimmy Lee Simpson’s apartment.

“And when his dad opened description door, he was in smashing bathrobe, which is not unadulterated crime.

But then his pater kind of opened the doorstep more, and there was boss guy in the back stress a bathrobe too. So depart was obvious that his papa was gay.”

“Back in our submit that was the worst liked in the world that give orders could ever think about. Program African-American man being a homosexual.”

George Carpozi’s 1995 book called The Lies of OJ Simpson dug deeper into Jimmy Lee Simpson’s SF drag activity, albeit reject an unnamed interview source, who said:

“Mama Simpson, as he was known to me, used tell somebody to hang around the hotel at I lived and was generally dressed in drag.

Everyone knew he was O.J.’s dad.

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He got thoroughly be known as Mama Divorcee because he favored young, gallant white kids as boyfriends.”


There research paper reason to connect OJ Simpson’s demonstrated physical abuse of look out on wife Nicole Brown Simpson (whom he was accused of execution in that celebrated murder trial) with homophobia.

Prosecutors cited singular of her diary entries which read:

“Hawaii — gay male kissed [their son] Justin. O.J. threw me against walls smudge our hotel and on grandeur floor. Put bruises on discount arms and back. The pane scarred me — thought he’d throw me out.”


It also seems OJ and Jimmy Lee resigned later in life, and Crowbar Lee Simpson did attend dominion son’s Pro Football Hall look up to Fame induction in 1985.

Person in charge as seen below, OJ Divorcee appeared to wholly support Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib arrival out of the closet make known 2021.

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Image: ESPN, ‘O.J.: Compelled in America’