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Along with Kathy Sarris and others, Berg cofounded the
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Bloomington in 1971 with a degree in Business Administration. Berg chose to live publicly as a gay man following the support and affirmation of his employer after Berg was arrested at a bathhouse at the age of sixteen.
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Berg, who originally worked in insurance, started The Body Works, a 24-hour club for the
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had a distribution of 5,000 copies. Nevertheless, according to Berg, the paper struggled to find advertisers and lost over $ 1,000 per month.
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