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THE NIGHTMARE OF BEG GAY A LONDON STREET GANG
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“The higher-up members ed to really hate gays, ” he says. ”He tells me about a gay uple he helped beat up last year. The gang saw them walkg along the streets, holdg hands and “lookg like homos.