User talk:Billmichael
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as George Quaintance, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from http://www.glbtq.com/arts/quaintance_g.html, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted.
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