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PEE-WEE HERMAN WAS ALWAYS A GAY IN

Pee-wee never had a “gay subtext.” For everyone but the willfully ignorant, was always jt text. * pee wee's big holiday gay love story *

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But for many s-long fans, this one clud, Pee-wee never had a “gay subtext.

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His persona actively celebrat mp, particularly the kd of mp that elevat the language and style of the 1950s, when gay love was addrsed evasively, if at all.

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Particularly for gay men who were children the ‘80s, havg Rben’s subversive queer character vamp on Saturday morng TV was a gift, even if we uldn’t have articulated exactly what we were watchg at the time. Pee-wee’s noted lack of tert the fairer sex has long led to speculatn about his sexualy—wh the implitn that he’s gay.

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