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Contents:
- ARE 'THE GAP' STOR NAMED FOR 'GAY AND PROUD'?
- GAY AND PROUD
- HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
- MEET GAY BOB, THE OUT AND PROUD ANATOMILLY CORRECT DIS-ERA DOLL
- JUNE 28, 1970: GAY AND PROUD
- NO, GAP DON'T STAND FOR "GAY & PROUD," BUT THE SCHOOLYARD TNT STILL FOLLOWS ME TODAY
- ‘GAY AND PROUD’ HISTORIL FILM PROVIS LOOK BACK AT EARLY PRI MARCH
- MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST
ARE 'THE GAP' STOR NAMED FOR 'GAY AND PROUD'?
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GAY AND PROUD
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HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
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MEET GAY BOB, THE OUT AND PROUD ANATOMILLY CORRECT DIS-ERA DOLL
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JUNE 28, 1970: GAY AND PROUD
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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NO, GAP DON'T STAND FOR "GAY & PROUD," BUT THE SCHOOLYARD TNT STILL FOLLOWS ME TODAY
The One Life to Live scene stealer — now and forever David Vickers to soap fans — announced durg a 2013 talk-show appearance not only that he was gay but that he’d bee a sgle father of two. In addn to his daytime rol, he starred 2020’s Dashg December, one of the first mastream TV movi to make Christmas a gay old time.
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‘GAY AND PROUD’ HISTORIL FILM PROVIS LOOK BACK AT EARLY PRI MARCH
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Narrated by Breck ArryA livg history of the homosexual rights movementThe voic of gay lears across AmeriActual sounds of the massive gay monstratns. Picket agast homosexual persecutn; the first to appear on the ver of a natnal homosexual publitn; and the first to document pivotal pots of our history on film.
MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST
Lilli Vcenz’s film “Gay and Proud” is only twelve mut long, but provis a unique glimpse to the early days of the gay rights movement the Uned Stat.
And if we hadn't done that, nobody would remember the Stonewall today, " said Karla Jay, the first woman chair of the Gay Liberatn Front and a retired women's and genr studi profsor at Pace Universy. ' " The followg year, June 28, 1970, people gathered jt outsi the Stonewall Inn for the Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day March.