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Contents:
- WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
- HOW CAN I GIVE MY STRAIGHT BOYIEND THE GAY BLOWJOB HE SECRETLY YEARNS FOR?
- A CONTRACT FOR THE GAY GUY/STRAIGHT GUY FRIENDSHIP
WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
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Somehow, the origal “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” premiered on Bravo two s ago this month, prentg five gay men – each specializg a specific liftyle area – as they scend upon a (ually) heterosexual male subject need of some support, whether was wh clothg choic, groomg, anizatn or perhaps an unrlyg issue around self nfince. It was a novel take on the makeover ncept, not only terms of beg one of the first monstroly succsful programs the then-nascent realm of realy TV, but also one of the first tl to feature not one – but five – gay people as the leads. (For ntext, had only been five years sce the s “Ellen” got nceled, shortly after the ma character played by Ellen DeGener me out as gay.
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HOW CAN I GIVE MY STRAIGHT BOYIEND THE GAY BLOWJOB HE SECRETLY YEARNS FOR?
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“For many people, we were the first real, live, real life gay people that they actually enuntered, ” Krsley observed. You’re the first gay person I met!
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A CONTRACT FOR THE GAY GUY/STRAIGHT GUY FRIENDSHIP
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