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Contents:
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY SIGNALG, OM HANKY S TO THAT 'WHAT GAY GUYS ARE ACTUALLY LIKE' VIO
- FLAG THIS! GAY MEN SYMBOLS AND MEANG BEHD THEM
A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY SIGNALG, OM HANKY S TO THAT 'WHAT GAY GUYS ARE ACTUALLY LIKE' VIO
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FLAG THIS! GAY MEN SYMBOLS AND MEANG BEHD THEM
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Or you know he is gay but jt n blurt out "I'm terted you! If the first (gaydar is broken) then I would suggt talkg about known gay clubs/bars - not all the time, but as a ht drop. Now Sonny's bar is not The Buffalo - everybody, cludg my nyg great grandmother who is very straight and narrow and shouldn't know, knows that "those people" go to the Buffalo - Sonny's is the one that most gay men know about, but the straight folk haven't figure out s one of those kds of bars.