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IS GREG DAVI GAY?
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AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTTwo years before an official Gay Pri rally arrived the Uned Kgdom, the Kks released one of pop’s first big hs wh an L. Robson/Hulton Archive, via Getty ImagIn 1970, homosexual acts were still outlawed parts of the Uned Kgdom and would rema so for more than a . Yet two years before the natn even had s first official Gay Pri rally, the qutsentially Brish songwrer Ray Davi of the Kks wrote “Lola, ” a song that embraced a full spectm of genr nonnformy.
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