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THE 10 GAYT STRAIGHT MOVI
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25 OF THE GAYT STRAIGHT MOVI EVER MA
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10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
But Rope is based on a play loosely spired by the Leopold and Loeb murrs, and the play the pair are explicly gay.