As Tt celebrat his 80th birthday, a Tim journalist asks 'Is he gay?'
Contents:
- MEET THE DUO BEHD THE VERY BRIGHT AND VERY FUN VERYGAYPAT
- TT WAS GAY, TIM JOURNALIST CLAIMS
- IS TT GAY?
MEET THE DUO BEHD THE VERY BRIGHT AND VERY FUN VERYGAYPAT
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TT WAS GAY, TIM JOURNALIST CLAIMS
“I’m om Tanzania where ’s still very illegal to be gay and gay people get murred, ” Nafsi says, “To be a Tanzanian and up here beg able to pat such gayns! To be like, ‘Tanzanians are gay as well, and we support that even if our ernment do not. The mural was pated 1991 and then repated 1999 to make Cathere appear more feme—many believed the mural picted a gay uple, given the proximy of the mural to Bssel’s gay district.
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IS TT GAY?
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"Billns of blue blisterg barnacl, isn't starg the face?, " wrote The Tim journalist Matthew Parris unr the headle "Of urse Tt's gay. Translated to 60 languag, the rtoon books still sell upwards of 2 ln pi per Parris, a former Brish MP who is openly gay, said Tt's sexualy was obv to anyone who reads the rtoon books fay background giv a first clue. As psychologists will nfirm, this is mon among young gay men, " Mr Parris fact that while beg nomally a journalist, he almost never fil any stori, is also fishy - fuellg speculatn that he is a spy.