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• THE SURPRISG STORY OF HOW ABBA BEME BELOVED GAY INS
• MIA IS GAY. GAY IS MIA@IENDLY-NEIGHBOOR-MIABASILLY, I'M EMO, GAY WEIRD 20 Y.O. ?FOLLOWPOSTSIENDLY-NEIGHBOOR-MIAJT-ANOTHER-FICWRERJT-ANOTHER-FICWRERFOLLOW*CEL SUMMER [ONE] [TWO] [THREE] [FOUR] [FIVE] [SIX] - WHEN YOUR BT IEND TELLS YOU SHE’S G HOME OM A YEAR AWAY TRAVELLG WH A NEW FIANCé TOW YOU ULDN’T BE HAPPIER. UNTIL THAT FIANCé TURNS OUT TO BE YOUR CHILDHOOD LOVE, SWEET PEA - 15.5K+ (ONGOG)TWTER ACUNTS // INSTAGRAM ACUNTS*SERENDIPY [ONE] [TWO] - SWEET PEA AND Y/N ARE ON DIFFERENT PATHS LIFE, YET SOMETHG KEEPS BRGG THEM TOGETHER - 4K (COMPLETE)*BETRAYAL [ONE] [TWO] - WHEN THE REAR’S PAST BACK TO HNT HER, SHE STANDS TO LOSE EVERYTHG; HER IENDS, HER BOYIEND, THE LIFE SHE’D BUILT FOR HERSELF. WH SWEET PEA REFG TO TALK TO HER, SHE AGRE TO DO THE ONE THE SHE THOUGHT SHE’D NEVER DO. - 3K (COMPLETE)*TATTOOS TOGETHER [ONE] [TWO] - WHEN ONE OF VERONI’S OLD IENDS MOV TO TOWN, SWEET PEA N’T HELP BUT TAKE A LIKG TO HER MUCH TO HIS ANNOYANCE. WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT A DNK GAME OF TTH OR DARE WOULD END UP AT THE WYRM WH A TATTOO GUN? - 4.5K (COMPLETE)*MEANT TO BE [ONE] - WHEN POLLY’S BACHELORETTE PARTY ENDS UP AT A MAGIC MIKE STYLE SHOW Y/N N’T HELP BUT BE DRAWN TO ONE ACT, SWEET PEA. MUCH TO HER SURPRISE, WHEN HE OVER HEARS HER CURRENT FAY DILEMMA HE’S MORE THAN WILLG TO HELP - 1K+ (ON HOLD)*STUCK WH U [ONE] - A SERI OF DRABBL FOLLOWG Y/N AND SWEET PEA AS THEY PH THROUGH LOCKDOWN/QUARANTE TOGETHER - (ON GOG)*BORN TO WONR [ONE] - WH HER TN DONE, Y/N N’T WA FOR HER NEXT ADVENTURE, SHE JT HADN’T PLAN TO FD WHAT SHE WAS LOOKG FOR WH SWEET PEA - 500+ (ON HOLD)*THE PREGNANCY SERI [ONE] [TWO] - A BUNCH OF DRABBL FOLLOWG Y/N AND SWEET PEA THROUGH AN UNEXPECTED PREGNANCY - (ON HOLD)*HOLIDATE [ONE] [TWO] [THREE] - TIRED OF BEG ALONE ON HOLIDAYS, SWEET PEA AND Y/N CI TO BE EACH OTHER’S PLATNIC PL-ON ALL YEAR ROUND. WHAT ULD GO WRONG? - 6.5K+ (ON GOG)*IF THE WORLD WAS ENDG - THEY KNOW THEY AREN’T MEANT TO BE TOGETHER. SO WHY DO THEY KEEP FDG EACH OTHER WHEN SOMETHG BAD HAPPENS? - 2.5K+*YOU AND I - IT’S BEEN 6 YEARS SCE Y/N LEFT TOWN, 6 YEARS SCE SHE BROKE SWEET PEA’S HEART AND THEY’RE ABOUT TO E FACE TO FACE ONCE AGA - 3K+*ZO - WHEN SWEET PEA’S FIRST DAY AT RIVERDALE HIGH GO OM BAD TO WORSE, HE MISTAKE’S Y/N’S KDNS FOR SOMETHG ELSE. BUT HE WASN’T PREPARED FOR HER FIERY ATTU THAT RIVALS HIS OWN - 500+*NEVER GAVE UP - SWEET PEA WANTS NOTHG MORE THAN FOR Y/N TO BE HAPPY EVEN IF ’S NOT WH HIM, BUT PART OF HIM N’T SEEM TO GIVE UP - 500+*DNKEN PHONE-LLS *JEALOLY *A COLD NIGHT*FIGHT GONE WRONG *IT’S FOR THE BT*SUNLIGHT*PROM*FIRST DATE*LOOKG AFTER YOU WHEN YOU GET SICK*DATG*MECHANIC!SWEET PEA*NORTHSI!SWEET PEA X SOUTHSI!REAR*POP’S DATE*VATN (INSTA)*LOCKDOWN (INSTA)*A LIFETIME (INSTA)*AN ONLYFANS CHRISTMAS (ONLYFANS/INSTA)*COME TO YOUR SENS (ONLYFANS/INSTA)*DADDY PEA (INSTA)*MISSG YOU (ONLYFANS/INSTA)IENDLY-NEIGHBOOR-MIAMRSFANGSFOGARTYSREDY FANGS
• MARA GAY: FACTS TO KNOW ABOUT THE CONSCIENT AND BRAVE JOURNALIST
• REECE JAM SEXUALY- HE IS NOT GAY INSTEAD DATG MIA MCCLENAGHAN, RELATNSHIP TIMELE
• THE NEXT MAMMA MIA! SHOULD GIVE COL FIRTH THE GAY LOVE STORY HE DERVFIRTH’S HARRY SERV AN EPIC ROMANCE—AND THE FAILURE TO GIVE HIM ONE IS THE ONLY BUM NOTE MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGA.BY LRA BRADLEYJULY 21, 2018BY JONATHAN PRIME/UNIVERSAL STUDS.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEMAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGA LIVERS JT ABOUT EVERYTHG A MAMMA MIA! SEQUEL N BRG TO THE TABLE: MORE ABBA, MORE BELL-BOTTOMS, MORE CHER. THE MIL SEQUEL OFFERS, AS V.F.’S OWN RICHARD LAWSON PUT HIS REVIEW, “UNPLITED JOY PLITED, SPAIRG TIM.” SO, TO BE CLEAR, THIS IS NOT ME BASHG THE FILM. IF ANYTHG, ’S ME IMPLORG THE POWERS THAT BE TO GIVE ANOTHER MOVIE, THIS TIME LIVERG THE ONE THG THAT BOTH MAMMA MIA! FILMS NEGLECTED TO GIVE THE FIRST TIME AROUND: A LOVE STORY WORTHY OF THE STAMMERG, IMPECBLY IFFED FOX THAT IS COL FIRTH’S HARRY BRIGHT. O.K., MAYBE NOT ANOTHER MOVIE—BUT EVEN A SHORT FILM OR MIC VIO WOULD DO THE TRICK.IN THE ORIGAL MIL UPON WHICH MAMMA MIA! IS BASED, HARRY TABLISH THAT HE IS GAY—AND THE FILMS, HE’S ALSO SHOWN TO BE ATTRACTED TO MEN. IN THE FIRST MOVIE, HE NOT THAT MERYL STREEP’S DONNA WAS THE FIRST AND LAST WOMAN HE EVER LOVED—THEN FDS ROMANCE WH ONE OF HIS DGHTER’S WEDDG GUTS. (EXCELLENT PICKUP GAME, HARRY.) THE SEQUEL, HOWEVER, FDS HIM STILL SGLE, 10 (OR . . . SOME NUMBER OF) YEARS LATER.WHEN ASKED DURG A BS MEETG IF HE HAS ANY FAY, HARRY WISTFULLY REPLI THAT HE HAS A DGHTER. APPARENTLY, THERE’S NO ONE ELSE HIS LIFE. PERHAPS HARRY HAS VOLUNTARILY CHOSEN SGLEDOM; EHER WAY, AS A MOMENT LATER THE FILM— WHICH HE TI HIMSELF TO A CHAIR WKGLY—IMPLI, HARRY MIGHT GET TO A LTLE LIGHT BONDAGE HIS SPARE TIME. SO AT LEAST WE KNOW HE’S NOT TOTALLY WANTG FOR PANY. (ALSO, THOSE WHO STICK AROUND FOR THE AFTER-CREDS SCENE WILL KNOW THAT HARRY HAS AT LEAST ONE MORE ADMIRER THIS FILM AS WELL—WHETHER OR NOT HE RECIPROT THAT AFFECTN.STILL, A FILM THAT CELEBRAT ROMANCE BETWEEN BASILLY ALL OF S CHARACTERS, ’S KD OF A BUMMER TO SEE THE ANCHISE’S ONE OPENLY GAY CHARACTER REMA PERPETUALLY SGLE. BY THE END OF MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGA, BASILLY EVERYONE ELSE IS PAIRED OFF. HARRY’S MAYBE-DGHTER SOPHIE (AMANDA SEYIED) HAS SKY (DOMIC COOPER), HER ONCE AND FUTURE BELOVED; CHER’S GRANDMOTHER CHARACTER, RUBY, HAS HER LONG-LOST LOVE, FERNANDO (ANDY GARCíA); STELLAN SKARSGåRD’S OUTSTANDG SWE CHARACTER, BILL, HAS ROSIE (JULIE WALTERS). PIERCE BROSNAN’S CHARACTER, SAM, HAD DONNA—YOU KNOW, BEFORE SHE DIED. EVEN CHRISTE BARANSKI’S LOTHAR, TANYA, GETS IMPLICLY PAIRED OFF BY THE END—WH A VERY UNEXPECTED GUT STAR. HARRY, MEANWHILE, IS LEFT TO REVEL EVERYONE ELSE’S HAPPS—ALTHOUGH HE AND BILL DO, AT ONE POT, SHARE A TANIC-SPOOFG MOMENT THAT WILL STAND AS ONE OF THE FILM’S GREATT HIGHLIGHTS.IT ULD EASILY BE A CINCE THAT HARRY DON’T GET A ROMANCE—BUT DON’T HE SERVE BETTER? AS THE SECURY GUARD ON THE DOCKS NOT, AGE BE HIM—LIKE A FE WE OR CHEE. HARRY IS HANDSOME, TELLIGENT, KD, WELL-OFF—AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, ONE GREE OF SEPARATN OM CHER. IF HE N’T FD TE LOVE OUT THERE, WHAT HOPE IS THERE FOR THE RT OF ?MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONINSI ALL OF US STRANGERS, ANDREW STT AND PL ML’S METAPHYSIL LOVE STORYBY DAVID CANFIELDLRA BRADLEY

THE SURPRISG STORY OF HOW ABBA BEME BELOVED GAY INS

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MIA IS GAY. GAY IS MIA@IENDLY-NEIGHBOOR-MIABASILLY, I'M EMO, GAY WEIRD 20 Y.O. ?FOLLOWPOSTSIENDLY-NEIGHBOOR-MIAJT-ANOTHER-FICWRERJT-ANOTHER-FICWRERFOLLOW*CEL SUMMER [ONE] [TWO] [THREE] [FOUR] [FIVE] [SIX] - WHEN YOUR BT IEND TELLS YOU SHE’S G HOME OM A YEAR AWAY TRAVELLG WH A NEW FIANCé TOW YOU ULDN’T BE HAPPIER. UNTIL THAT FIANCé TURNS OUT TO BE YOUR CHILDHOOD LOVE, SWEET PEA - 15.5K+ (ONGOG)TWTER ACUNTS // INSTAGRAM ACUNTS*SERENDIPY [ONE] [TWO] - SWEET PEA AND Y/N ARE ON DIFFERENT PATHS LIFE, YET SOMETHG KEEPS BRGG THEM TOGETHER - 4K (COMPLETE)*BETRAYAL [ONE] [TWO] - WHEN THE REAR’S PAST BACK TO HNT HER, SHE STANDS TO LOSE EVERYTHG; HER IENDS, HER BOYIEND, THE LIFE SHE’D BUILT FOR HERSELF. WH SWEET PEA REFG TO TALK TO HER, SHE AGRE TO DO THE ONE THE SHE THOUGHT SHE’D NEVER DO. - 3K (COMPLETE)*TATTOOS TOGETHER [ONE] [TWO] - WHEN ONE OF VERONI’S OLD IENDS MOV TO TOWN, SWEET PEA N’T HELP BUT TAKE A LIKG TO HER MUCH TO HIS ANNOYANCE. WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT A DNK GAME OF TTH OR DARE WOULD END UP AT THE WYRM WH A TATTOO GUN? - 4.5K (COMPLETE)*MEANT TO BE [ONE] - WHEN POLLY’S BACHELORETTE PARTY ENDS UP AT A MAGIC MIKE STYLE SHOW Y/N N’T HELP BUT BE DRAWN TO ONE ACT, SWEET PEA. MUCH TO HER SURPRISE, WHEN HE OVER HEARS HER CURRENT FAY DILEMMA HE’S MORE THAN WILLG TO HELP - 1K+ (ON HOLD)*STUCK WH U [ONE] - A SERI OF DRABBL FOLLOWG Y/N AND SWEET PEA AS THEY PH THROUGH LOCKDOWN/QUARANTE TOGETHER - (ON GOG)*BORN TO WONR [ONE] - WH HER TN DONE, Y/N N’T WA FOR HER NEXT ADVENTURE, SHE JT HADN’T PLAN TO FD WHAT SHE WAS LOOKG FOR WH SWEET PEA - 500+ (ON HOLD)*THE PREGNANCY SERI [ONE] [TWO] - A BUNCH OF DRABBL FOLLOWG Y/N AND SWEET PEA THROUGH AN UNEXPECTED PREGNANCY - (ON HOLD)*HOLIDATE [ONE] [TWO] [THREE] - TIRED OF BEG ALONE ON HOLIDAYS, SWEET PEA AND Y/N CI TO BE EACH OTHER’S PLATNIC PL-ON ALL YEAR ROUND. WHAT ULD GO WRONG? - 6.5K+ (ON GOG)*IF THE WORLD WAS ENDG - THEY KNOW THEY AREN’T MEANT TO BE TOGETHER. SO WHY DO THEY KEEP FDG EACH OTHER WHEN SOMETHG BAD HAPPENS? - 2.5K+*YOU AND I - IT’S BEEN 6 YEARS SCE Y/N LEFT TOWN, 6 YEARS SCE SHE BROKE SWEET PEA’S HEART AND THEY’RE ABOUT TO E FACE TO FACE ONCE AGA - 3K+*ZO - WHEN SWEET PEA’S FIRST DAY AT RIVERDALE HIGH GO OM BAD TO WORSE, HE MISTAKE’S Y/N’S KDNS FOR SOMETHG ELSE. BUT HE WASN’T PREPARED FOR HER FIERY ATTU THAT RIVALS HIS OWN - 500+*NEVER GAVE UP - SWEET PEA WANTS NOTHG MORE THAN FOR Y/N TO BE HAPPY EVEN IF ’S NOT WH HIM, BUT PART OF HIM N’T SEEM TO GIVE UP - 500+*DNKEN PHONE-LLS *JEALOLY *A COLD NIGHT*FIGHT GONE WRONG *IT’S FOR THE BT*SUNLIGHT*PROM*FIRST DATE*LOOKG AFTER YOU WHEN YOU GET SICK*DATG*MECHANIC!SWEET PEA*NORTHSI!SWEET PEA X SOUTHSI!REAR*POP’S DATE*VATN (INSTA)*LOCKDOWN (INSTA)*A LIFETIME (INSTA)*AN ONLYFANS CHRISTMAS (ONLYFANS/INSTA)*COME TO YOUR SENS (ONLYFANS/INSTA)*DADDY PEA (INSTA)*MISSG YOU (ONLYFANS/INSTA)IENDLY-NEIGHBOOR-MIAMRSFANGSFOGARTYSREDY FANGS

I also beme aware of somethg else -- somethg some parents felt about their gay children the years before scientific advancements like IVF and donor eggs beme available on a mass sle.

MARA GAY: FACTS TO KNOW ABOUT THE CONSCIENT AND BRAVE JOURNALIST

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REECE JAM SEXUALY- HE IS NOT GAY INSTEAD DATG MIA MCCLENAGHAN, RELATNSHIP TIMELE

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” and “Macho Man” for themselv, but there’s no way they’ll take this one om to multiple stage and screen rnatns of “Mamma Mia!, ” fabuloly garish stum om gay signer Owe Sandström and nsummately crafted songs more retroactively popular than their ’70s and early ’80s heyday, ABBA has for s been the bull’s-eye of the LGBTQ mil universe. Ostensibly cheerful but packed wh drama and peppered wh Sndavian melancholy, the Stockholm mixed-genr quartet’s pop has blueprted the glz of untls gay and gay-iendly acts om Kylie Mogue to Lady Gaga, Adam Lambert to Lil Nas X — a sgular achievement for a band that hadn’t pleted an album 40 years.

THE NEXT MAMMA MIA! SHOULD GIVE COL FIRTH THE GAY LOVE STORY HE DERVFIRTH’S HARRY SERV AN EPIC ROMANCE—AND THE FAILURE TO GIVE HIM ONE IS THE ONLY BUM NOTE MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGA.BY LRA BRADLEYJULY 21, 2018BY JONATHAN PRIME/UNIVERSAL STUDS.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEMAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGA LIVERS JT ABOUT EVERYTHG A MAMMA MIA! SEQUEL N BRG TO THE TABLE: MORE ABBA, MORE BELL-BOTTOMS, MORE CHER. THE MIL SEQUEL OFFERS, AS V.F.’S OWN RICHARD LAWSON PUT HIS REVIEW, “UNPLITED JOY PLITED, SPAIRG TIM.” SO, TO BE CLEAR, THIS IS NOT ME BASHG THE FILM. IF ANYTHG, ’S ME IMPLORG THE POWERS THAT BE TO GIVE ANOTHER MOVIE, THIS TIME LIVERG THE ONE THG THAT BOTH MAMMA MIA! FILMS NEGLECTED TO GIVE THE FIRST TIME AROUND: A LOVE STORY WORTHY OF THE STAMMERG, IMPECBLY IFFED FOX THAT IS COL FIRTH’S HARRY BRIGHT. O.K., MAYBE NOT ANOTHER MOVIE—BUT EVEN A SHORT FILM OR MIC VIO WOULD DO THE TRICK.IN THE ORIGAL MIL UPON WHICH MAMMA MIA! IS BASED, HARRY TABLISH THAT HE IS GAY—AND THE FILMS, HE’S ALSO SHOWN TO BE ATTRACTED TO MEN. IN THE FIRST MOVIE, HE NOT THAT MERYL STREEP’S DONNA WAS THE FIRST AND LAST WOMAN HE EVER LOVED—THEN FDS ROMANCE WH ONE OF HIS DGHTER’S WEDDG GUTS. (EXCELLENT PICKUP GAME, HARRY.) THE SEQUEL, HOWEVER, FDS HIM STILL SGLE, 10 (OR . . . SOME NUMBER OF) YEARS LATER.WHEN ASKED DURG A BS MEETG IF HE HAS ANY FAY, HARRY WISTFULLY REPLI THAT HE HAS A DGHTER. APPARENTLY, THERE’S NO ONE ELSE HIS LIFE. PERHAPS HARRY HAS VOLUNTARILY CHOSEN SGLEDOM; EHER WAY, AS A MOMENT LATER THE FILM— WHICH HE TI HIMSELF TO A CHAIR WKGLY—IMPLI, HARRY MIGHT GET TO A LTLE LIGHT BONDAGE HIS SPARE TIME. SO AT LEAST WE KNOW HE’S NOT TOTALLY WANTG FOR PANY. (ALSO, THOSE WHO STICK AROUND FOR THE AFTER-CREDS SCENE WILL KNOW THAT HARRY HAS AT LEAST ONE MORE ADMIRER THIS FILM AS WELL—WHETHER OR NOT HE RECIPROT THAT AFFECTN.STILL, A FILM THAT CELEBRAT ROMANCE BETWEEN BASILLY ALL OF S CHARACTERS, ’S KD OF A BUMMER TO SEE THE ANCHISE’S ONE OPENLY GAY CHARACTER REMA PERPETUALLY SGLE. BY THE END OF MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGA, BASILLY EVERYONE ELSE IS PAIRED OFF. HARRY’S MAYBE-DGHTER SOPHIE (AMANDA SEYIED) HAS SKY (DOMIC COOPER), HER ONCE AND FUTURE BELOVED; CHER’S GRANDMOTHER CHARACTER, RUBY, HAS HER LONG-LOST LOVE, FERNANDO (ANDY GARCíA); STELLAN SKARSGåRD’S OUTSTANDG SWE CHARACTER, BILL, HAS ROSIE (JULIE WALTERS). PIERCE BROSNAN’S CHARACTER, SAM, HAD DONNA—YOU KNOW, BEFORE SHE DIED. EVEN CHRISTE BARANSKI’S LOTHAR, TANYA, GETS IMPLICLY PAIRED OFF BY THE END—WH A VERY UNEXPECTED GUT STAR. HARRY, MEANWHILE, IS LEFT TO REVEL EVERYONE ELSE’S HAPPS—ALTHOUGH HE AND BILL DO, AT ONE POT, SHARE A TANIC-SPOOFG MOMENT THAT WILL STAND AS ONE OF THE FILM’S GREATT HIGHLIGHTS.IT ULD EASILY BE A CINCE THAT HARRY DON’T GET A ROMANCE—BUT DON’T HE SERVE BETTER? AS THE SECURY GUARD ON THE DOCKS NOT, AGE BE HIM—LIKE A FE WE OR CHEE. HARRY IS HANDSOME, TELLIGENT, KD, WELL-OFF—AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, ONE GREE OF SEPARATN OM CHER. IF HE N’T FD TE LOVE OUT THERE, WHAT HOPE IS THERE FOR THE RT OF ?MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONINSI ALL OF US STRANGERS, ANDREW STT AND PL ML’S METAPHYSIL LOVE STORYBY DAVID CANFIELDLRA BRADLEY

This week releasg “Voyage, ” s first new LP sce 1981 and a teaser for next year’s London ncerts featurg 3D avatars, ABBA is to many gay fans what the Rollg Ston are to straights — archetyp whose appeal transcends time, place and age. While even ins like Madonna polarize opn, nearly every lor of the gay rabow agre on wasn’t always the se.

Back when Donna Summer reigned as disputable dancg queen, ABBA didn’t get much gay club play, not even you-know-what. Y, there were exceptns: Larry Levan — the fluential gay Black DJ at New York’s legendary and largely Black/LGBTQ Paradise Garage — adored Cher’s “Take Me Home.