Jack Strouss (1923- ), born in Atlanta, Georgia, attended Boys High School. He joined the Signal Corps during World War II. After the war, he attended Oglethorpe University and Georgia State University, then worked for the Treasury Department and the U.S. Civil Service Commission. He lost his position in 1950 because of his homosexuality. About that time he met and started dating William Devaux Wilson, and began his 27 year career in theater and film. He volunteered during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s at the AID Ministry and AID Atlanta. William "Bill" Devaux Wilson (1931-2000) was born in Sumter, Georgia. He lived in Augusta, Georgia and worked at his family's mobile home retail business until the family moved to Dallas, Texas in 1953. He later moved to California and became an assistant manager at the Warner Brothers Theatre in Beverly Hills, California, working on popular Hollywood movies including White Christmas, The Country Girl, Not as a Stranger, and Strategic Air Command. In 1955, Wilson began working as an assistant at the Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, California.