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HOW A GAY SLUR BEME A LC PART OF MY INTY
Some one who is a flamg flamboyant homosexual.
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F (SLANG) - ORIG AND HISTORIL USAGE - AS GAY SLANG
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One of the rare tim my father brought up homosexualy was when I was 12 and Olympian Greg Louganis revealed his HIV stat a Barbara Walters terview, years after he famoly h his head on a divg board. My earlit memory of my dad talkg about gay people is him sayg that Louganis should have been disqualified om his life’s work for beg HIV-posive.
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