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The Sex Issue - Cover Story - Cover Story
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Great Scott: after years of struggling with his sexuality, Playgirl centerfold Scott Merritt is coming all the way out. To his surprise, so is Playgirl.
Scott Merritt, Playgirl's 30th-anniversary centerfold, is sitting in the bar of Toronto's Sutton Place Hotel remembering life on the other side of the closet door. "It's taken me a while to get to this point," Merritt sighs, "but I'm gay. It's time to live truthfully. I've always been gay, and I'm done playing the part of a straight man in any context at all--in photographs or in life. The road to this point has been personally rocky at tunes, but I'm tired of keeping my head down. I don't want to hide anymore, period."
Like many extraordinarily handsome men, especially those you first meet in magazines, he's slighter and somehow more accessible in person. In his photo spread in the June 2003 issue of the magazine, which famously--and with no discernable irony--bills itself as "Entertainment for Women," he appears as remote as an alabaster Donatello, posed poolside in the searing Miami sunlight. Today the model-turned-events promoter is tanned, touslehaired,...See the full content of this document
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