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I knew precisely nothing about JT Leroy whyen I began reading this ....
and knew even less when I was finished.
Editors: do not assume that all your readers are fully au fait with all the ephemera there is to know.
The standard rules of journalism apply, methinks: a par or two to background a story is always a good thing, unless you are deliberately setting out to exclude the non-cogniscenti.