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• LIFE ISN’T PRI.SIMPLE GAY APPAREL IS MEANT TO TRANSCEND PRI AS WE KNOW . YOU AREN’T JT A RABOW, JT A “GAY PERSON” WHO ONLY POPS TO EXISTENCE EVERY JUNE FOR OUT-OF-TOUCH BRANDS TO LABEL AND MODIZE — FOR BRANDS TO FAKE RE ABOUT AND RCTNISTILLY APPEAL TO — PURSU OF THEIR MA GOAL, THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR. YOU’RE MORE THAN THAT — YOU’RE A GAY PERSON WH A GAY EXPERIENCE. AND, AS YOU KNOW, OUR GAY EXPERIENCE ISN’T ALL RABOWS AND UNIRNS. RABOWS AND UNIRNS FAIL TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE EXISTENCE OF THE LONG PATH THAT WE DDGED ALONG BEFORE BEG ABLE TO FALLY PEEK OUR HEAD OUT OF THE DARKNS AND AT SOME POT, HOPEFULLY, BEE RELATIVELY SHAMELS.I CREATED SIMPLE GAY APPAREL BEE THE MARKET OFFERGS WEREN’T GETTG . I WAS CRAVG SUBTLETY AND NUANCE. I WAS CRAVG VISIBILY, REPRENTATN, AND MULTI-DIMENSNALY MY PURSU TO BE OUT NFINTLY.MY DARK DIGN INSPIRATN.AFTER I SET OUT TO SIGN SUBTLE AND NUANCED VISIBILY, I REALIZED THAT A LOT OF MY UNNSC SPIRATN WAS G OM DARKNS AND SHAME THAT FED MY GAY EXPERIENCE — DARKNS THAT I WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE, RECLAIM, TAKE OWNERSHIP OVER, AND MAKE LIGHT OF. I THK THERE’S SOMETHG EMPOWERG ABOUT ACKNOWLEDGG A THG AS REALLY IS — ACKNOWLEDGG PA, ACKNOWLEDGG SHAME, ACKNOWLEDGG THE PROCS — AND OWNG ANKLY AND SIMPLY, HUMOR AND IRONY.WH MY SIGNS, I E VAR SYMBOLS TO CREATE STORI, LTLE SNAPSHOTS OF EMOTNS AND SENTIMENTS THAT REPRENT THE WI SPECTM OF THE GAY EXPERIENCE — OM SHAME TO SPE, OM LONELS TO PRI. MY COMMMENT TO QUALY.
• DEFINITIONS FOR GAY APPARELGAY AP·PAR·EL
• DON WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL

LIFE ISN’T PRI.SIMPLE GAY APPAREL IS MEANT TO TRANSCEND PRI AS WE KNOW . YOU AREN’T JT A RABOW, JT A “GAY PERSON” WHO ONLY POPS TO EXISTENCE EVERY JUNE FOR OUT-OF-TOUCH BRANDS TO LABEL AND MODIZE — FOR BRANDS TO FAKE RE ABOUT AND RCTNISTILLY APPEAL TO — PURSU OF THEIR MA GOAL, THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR. YOU’RE MORE THAN THAT — YOU’RE A GAY PERSON WH A GAY EXPERIENCE. AND, AS YOU KNOW, OUR GAY EXPERIENCE ISN’T ALL RABOWS AND UNIRNS. RABOWS AND UNIRNS FAIL TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE EXISTENCE OF THE LONG PATH THAT WE DDGED ALONG BEFORE BEG ABLE TO FALLY PEEK OUR HEAD OUT OF THE DARKNS AND AT SOME POT, HOPEFULLY, BEE RELATIVELY SHAMELS.I CREATED SIMPLE GAY APPAREL BEE THE MARKET OFFERGS WEREN’T GETTG . I WAS CRAVG SUBTLETY AND NUANCE. I WAS CRAVG VISIBILY, REPRENTATN, AND MULTI-DIMENSNALY MY PURSU TO BE OUT NFINTLY.MY DARK DIGN INSPIRATN.AFTER I SET OUT TO SIGN SUBTLE AND NUANCED VISIBILY, I REALIZED THAT A LOT OF MY UNNSC SPIRATN WAS G OM DARKNS AND SHAME THAT FED MY GAY EXPERIENCE — DARKNS THAT I WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE, RECLAIM, TAKE OWNERSHIP OVER, AND MAKE LIGHT OF. I THK THERE’S SOMETHG EMPOWERG ABOUT ACKNOWLEDGG A THG AS REALLY IS — ACKNOWLEDGG PA, ACKNOWLEDGG SHAME, ACKNOWLEDGG THE PROCS — AND OWNG ANKLY AND SIMPLY, HUMOR AND IRONY.WH MY SIGNS, I E VAR SYMBOLS TO CREATE STORI, LTLE SNAPSHOTS OF EMOTNS AND SENTIMENTS THAT REPRENT THE WI SPECTM OF THE GAY EXPERIENCE — OM SHAME TO SPE, OM LONELS TO PRI. MY COMMMENT TO QUALY.

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DEFINITIONS FOR GAY APPARELGAY AP·PAR·EL

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