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‘PUMPG’ IS DANGERO NEW FAD AMONG GAY MEN
But beg a gay man or Richard Gere Ameri means always havg to reassure people that you don’t have a gerbil your ass—at dner parti, durg fay rnns, at funerals, on CNN, at passport ntrol, wherever! For while gay men and, I assume, Richard Gere don’t put gerbils their ass, not a day go by that someone—ually a straight 13-year-old boy—don’t try to shove one , figuratively speakg. Hundreds of thoands of men and women this untry, my fellow Amerins, leave high school nvced that gay men put gerbils their ass on a semiregular basis.
Some background: Gerbil-stuffg is a sexual practice that straight teenage boys general, and Howard Stern particular, spect gay men general, and Richard Gere (who is not gay) particular, of engagg . The type of straight person who believ that gay men engage “gerbilg” is likely to believe other gay stereotyp: We’re all prissy ltle swish, for stance, wh clean apartments and extensive llectns of origal Broadway st rerdgs. Yet the same person who believ gay men are prim sissi also believ we’re pable of holdg a stgglg ront one hand while rippg s lower jaw off wh the other, and then tearg s legs off (thk of the ms!
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