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Contents:
- THE GAYS AND TENNIS, PART 154 -- US OPEN, BISH!
- THE PLEASURE AND PA OF GAY BARS
- FOR THE LOVE OF GAY BARS
- GAY IENDLY? - SOCHI FOM
THE GAYS AND TENNIS, PART 154 -- US OPEN, BISH!
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THE PLEASURE AND PA OF GAY BARS
The social spac are s of both pleasure and isolatn <i><a href="; target="_blank">Gay Bar: Why We Went Out</a></i>, a new book by Jeremy Atherton L. * gossip gay bar *
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” Atherton L’s but is a book-length say told through the lens of the gay bars, nightclubs, and sex parti he’s equented over the span of nearly three s. In li of hn he achiev somethg richer, if not more knotty: the gay bar a state of irrolutn, providg a hall of mirrors onto which his inty ntracts, expands, and sometim actur.
Through grapplg wh the gay bars extctn, Atherton L, 46, ultimately ponrs the extctn of gay inty. The word gay was toned like a joke or an elegy.
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