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THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’
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In the film directed by Wash Wtmoreland, who is gay, Keira Knightley embodi the pansexual bohemian femist who stepped out of her hband's shadow to bee the most famo female French thor the film chronicl Colette's rise to fame as she leav behd her untry upbrgg to bee the toast of Paris along wh her hband, Willy (Domic Wt), who spurs her to chronicle her life for his lerary factory where only his moniker appears on everythg that's published. "After you've watched however many mut of this que reprsed society where you n't exprs your sexualy if you're gay, when the women fally are alone together -- [the sex scene] is credibly important. This perd drama, set durg the Margaret Thatcher era, shows how support om the group Lbians and Gays Support Mers helped change a ernment cisn to close m across the Uned Kgdom.
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