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- HOW CHRISTIAN PARENTS SHOULD RPOND TO THEIR CHILD'S GAY INTY CRISIS
- GAY UPLE SAYS NYC RTRANT KICKED THEM OUT BEE OF THEIR SEXUALY
HOW CHRISTIAN PARENTS SHOULD RPOND TO THEIR CHILD'S GAY INTY CRISIS
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GAY UPLE SAYS NYC RTRANT KICKED THEM OUT BEE OF THEIR SEXUALY
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There are people who have been supportive of the gay and lbian movement the cy fah stutns, but they are a super mory.
An NYC gay uple orred food at La Isla Cuchio Rtrant the Bronx when they were verbally harassed by an employee and asked to leave. * kick gay *
And so there's been this movement to tablish fah stutns that are welg and that are led by gays and lbians. I have been fired for beg gay Detro.
It is not unual for me to n to somebody who is Ain-Amerin, gay and not out bee they're fear of their job, particularly if 's a high posn at a proment was like for you, growg up gay Detro? I was enterg high school, so I got to high school, me out, and I found other gay iends.
Detro was a safe womb for me to velop -- there were gay people you, this was '79, '80, '81. It beme a gay-intified disease by '83, the year I graduated.