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Race, Sexuality, and ‘The Lion King’: How Michael R. Jackson Found Success Through ‘A Strange Loop’

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Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Zack DeZon

Michael R. Jackson tells Tim Teeman about how feeling trapped in his own “strange loop”—around race, sex, sexuality, writing, indeed every part of his life—became a hit musical.