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WORLD''S FIRST TWO GAY GUYS
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Norm wasn’t a gay guy, he was a DEEPLY CLOSETED gay guy. Macdonald’s edy had recurrg stras of seemg misogyny and homophobia that ma you wonr whether was what he actually thought.
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