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QUEER FéS AND GAY MYLK
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WHY IS ICED COFFEE SO GAY?
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— A Southern California school board has bee the latt proxy for culture wars brewg across the untry after a nservative bloc voted to formally reject state-endorsed curriculum that would have mentned gay rights figure Harvey Milk.
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