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Contents:

• 'ANY DAY YOU N BE TAKEN': INSI WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE GAY CHECHNYA
• CHECHNYA GAY PURGE: FOOTAGE TAKEN SI PRISON SHOWS WHERE MEN WERE 'TAED AND TORTURED'
• RSIAN MAN TORTURED TO ATH FOR 'BEG GAY'
• ABDUCTN, BEATGS, ELECTROCUTN: GAY MAN SCRIB TORTURE CHECHNYA

'ANY DAY YOU N BE TAKEN': INSI WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE GAY CHECHNYA

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CHECHNYA GAY PURGE: FOOTAGE TAKEN SI PRISON SHOWS WHERE MEN WERE 'TAED AND TORTURED'

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“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water, however, is out and proud. The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny.

RSIAN MAN TORTURED TO ATH FOR 'BEG GAY'

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ABDUCTN, BEATGS, ELECTROCUTN: GAY MAN SCRIB TORTURE CHECHNYA

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