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Contents:
- ‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
- THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
- WHE GAYS, PLEASE STOP INCLUDG BBC YOUR GRDR PROFILE
- BORN TO BOTTOM? REARCHERS REPORT BLOGIL CORRELATNS ANAL SEX ROLE GAY MEN
- THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON
- TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
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THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
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” Around the same time, the Human Rights Campaign clared unequivolly that “Beg gay is not a choice, ” and to claim that is “giv unwarranted crence to roundly disproven practic such as nversn or reparative therapy.
WHE GAYS, PLEASE STOP INCLUDG BBC YOUR GRDR PROFILE
”People who challenge the Born This Way narrative are often st as homophobic, and their thkg is nsired backwardAs Jane Ward not Not Gay: Sex Between Straight Whe Men, what’s tertg about many of the claims is how transparent their speakers are wh their polil motivatns.
BORN TO BOTTOM? REARCHERS REPORT BLOGIL CORRELATNS ANAL SEX ROLE GAY MEN
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THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON
” People who challenge the Born This Way narrative are often st as homophobic, and their thkg is nsired backward – even if they are themselv, for example, Cynthia Nixon of Sex and The Cy fame.
TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
”Gay rights do not have to hge on a geic explanatn for sexualy (Cred: Ignac Lehmann)For Aravosis, and many gay activists like him, the public will only accept and affirm gay people if they thk they were born gay.