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Contents:

• THE BROKEN HEARTS CLUB: INSI THE MAKG OF THE 2000 GAY ROM
• A GAY MAN AT MIDLIFE PONRS BEG LONELY AND ‘INVISIBLE’
• MSRS. LONELY-HEARTS, AN UNHIP GAY BAR
• HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY
• ‘MASCULE NORMAL GUY HERE' – LONELY HEARTS AND ‘NORMAL' GAYS CYBERSPACE

THE BROKEN HEARTS CLUB: INSI THE MAKG OF THE 2000 GAY ROM

Greg Berlanti’s The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy told the story of six gay bt iends — Dennis (Timothy Olyphant), Cole (Dean Ca), Benji (Zach Braff), Patrick (Ben Weber), Taylor (Billy Porter), and Howie (Matt McGrath) — navigatg the Los Angel datg scene.

A GAY MAN AT MIDLIFE PONRS BEG LONELY AND ‘INVISIBLE’

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There was no movie that kd of ptured the spir of young gay iendships as I knew them at that particular moment the late ’90s Wt Hollywood. EW talked to Berlanti and many Club members about gog to “gay school, ” embracg pa shell necklac, and the film’s important legacy. It was like, “Dean, I know you love this, but I don’t thk ’s a good ia for you to play a gay character at this pot time.

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MSRS. LONELY-HEARTS, AN UNHIP GAY BAR

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HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY

It's nice to see a gay movie that isn't a GAY movie. The ma characters all happen to be gay, but that is not the fol pot of the movie. This movie begs to break down the stereotyp of gay men and up wh some great gay lgo that my iends and I have adopted.

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‘MASCULE NORMAL GUY HERE' – LONELY HEARTS AND ‘NORMAL' GAYS CYBERSPACE

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