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Contents:

• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• MEET GAY BOB, THE OUT AND PROUD ANATOMILLY CORRECT DIS-ERA DOLL
• NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
• 100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

LGBTQ sex lumnist Dan Savage noted that Earrg Magic Ken’s wardrobe rembled outfs seen at gay rav a few years prr (leave to Ken to be jt behd the tim).

MEET GAY BOB, THE OUT AND PROUD ANATOMILLY CORRECT DIS-ERA DOLL

And to many who’d seen the doll, the rg around his neck rembled a certa sex toy popular among straight and gay men alike.

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NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE

Maxen’s announcement two years after NFL star Carl Nassib beme the league’s first active openly gay player. “I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” the former Las Vegas Rairs player, 30, revealed a June 2021 Instagram vio. While many are qutng the sexual inty of Ken the new Barbie movie, there’s one studly dis-era male doll whose sexual inty has never been Ryan Goslg brought the famed male Ken doll to life on the silver screen oppose Margot Robbie the new Barbie film which opened today, there was a very gay male doll name Gay Gay Bob doll me out of his closet 1977 much to the displeasure of the right-wg culture warrrs of the time, not jt bee Bob was out and proud but also bee he me wh a penis.

The Natural History Mm of Los Angel County tailed the history of Gay Bob and his girthy plastic male dollhood a blog post.

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100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE

The box looked like an actual closet so Gay Bob me out of the closet every time he me out to play. Another 10, 000 were produced, but Rosenberg was never able to produce the promised le of Bob’s male iends or any of the clothg ems that appeared the clothg talog that was clud Gay Bob’s closet while Ken’s sexual inty may or may not be doubt, there’s never been a qutn about Gay Bob’s queer pri. And let’s jt say where Barbie’s Ken doll is lackg, Gay Bob is packg.

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