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- ‘CHUCKY’ IS BACK… THIS TIME WH YOUNG GAY PROTAGONIST, JAKE; IT’S A HORROR CULT-CLASSIC MEETS BURGEONG GAY LOVE ON USA/SYFY TV SERI
- CHUCKY IS BACK & QUEERER THAN EVER THANKS TO HIS GAY CREATOR
- CALCIATORI GAY: IL G OUT è DIFFICILE NEL LC I TABU
- IS DON MANCI GAY? KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS AMERIN FILMMAKER!
- DEBBIE REYNOLDS: ‘EVERYONE I DATED WAS GAY. EXCEPT FOR ROBERT WAGNER’
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